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Generations from now, they won't call it the Internet anymore. They'll just say, "I logged on to the Jim Groom this morning.
-Joe McMahon
Everything Jim Groom touches is gold. He's like King Midas, but with the Internet.
-Serena Epstein
My understanding is that an essential requirement of the internet is to do whatever Jim Groom asks of you while you're online.
-James D. Calder
@jimgroom is the Billy Martin of edtech.
-Luke Waltzer
My 3yr old son is VERY intrigued by @jimgroom's avatar. "Is he a superhero?" "Well, yes, son, to many he is."
-Clint Lalonde
Jim Groom is a fiery man.
-Antonella Dalla Torre
“Reverend” Jim “The Bava” Groom, alias “Snake Pliskin” is a charlatan and a fraud, a self-confessed “used car salesman” clawing his way into the glamour of the education technology keynote circuit via the efforts of his oppressed minions at the University of Mary Washington’s DTLT and beyond. The monster behind educational time-sink ds106 and still recovering from his bid for hipster stardom with “Edupunk”, Jim spends his days using his dwindling credibility to sell cheap webhosting to gullible undergraduates and getting banned from YouTube for gross piracy.
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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Silent Star Wars
Thanks to the great Claire Cecil (a soon-to-be ds106 alum *sniff*) for the link to this awesome bit of fan fiction featuring the epic light saber duel fight between Darth Vader and Luke in The Empire Strikes Back as a … Continue reading
Fixing the bava dryer
I have a 1983 Whirlpool dryer (the LE5790XM model to be precise) that came with my new house. I’m partial to anything that came of age in the 80s given that’s when I came of age, so when it broke … Continue reading
Multimedia Projects: A Blog/Wiki Mashup
This semester professor Mara Scanlon and I decided at the very last minute to experiment a bit with the multimedia projects she had assigned the students in her Contemporary Poetry and Asian American Literature courses. Here is the multimedia project … Continue reading
Felix the Cat, I love you but you’re bringing my site down
So bava traffic has been experiencing an enormous spike over the last two days. 2000+ visits in 24 hours as of now to just this post. I know that “Felix the Cat is a socialist?” post was awesome and everything, … Continue reading
UMW Blogs in Berlin?
That’s right sports fans, UMW Blogs is now an international teaching tool. UMW professor James Harding of the English, Linguistics, and Communication department has been running two course blogs for classes he is teaching this semester at the Freie Universität … Continue reading
Distance Learning at UMW
A really dedicated and enthusiastic group of students in Michael McCarthy’s News Gathering course put together one hell of a resource on the state of distance learning and UMW and beyond. Kudos to Emily Montgomery, Sarah C. Smith and David … Continue reading
Guy Debord’s “Society of the Spectacle”
Ubuweb has been on a serious tear recently, and I love their twitter feed cause I get to see those gems as they roll out. Is there any better resources on the web for 20th century avant-garde art than ubuweb? … Continue reading
Presentation as Zombie Movie
Jim Groom: The end from Antonio Vantaggiato on Vimeo. Thanks to the great Antonio Vantaggiato, I finally have video for the presentation I gave in Puerto Rico on September 3rd at the Simposio Nueva Web. I blogged about it a … Continue reading