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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: February 2013
Open by Design: Open Educational Experiences
Below are the slides for my talk at the SUNY Online Learning Summit Conference. As much as my talks change, they always come back to the core values of changing a culture through open experimentation.
Assault on Precinct 13 Trading Cards: The Ice Cream Truck
Here is another addition to the “Movie Trading Cards—now with more animation!” assignment. Sorry for the dark subject matter of this one, but John Carpenter’s vision of urban gangs and thug life in Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) was even … Continue reading
The Dead Zone Trading Cards: The Hockey Game Vision
Just finished up my Animated Movie Trading Cards tutorial, and I figured I’d share my most recent creation that was made alongside documenting the tutorial. It’s inspired by the mad genius of David Cronenberg’s early films. This is one of … Continue reading
Animated Movie Trading Card Tutorial
As promised, I’ve created a tutorial for the “Movie Trading Cards—Now With More Animation!” assignment I did earlier today. The tutorial was written in the spirit of the Animated GIF tutorial I wrote a while back which seems to have … Continue reading
Movie Trading Cards—now with animation!
Inspired by the Sno-Cat movie trading card for The Shining (updated link), I started messing around with how I could do this in GIMP. While playing I started to think, why can’t we animate the movie scenes? A few hours later … Continue reading
Belated ds106 Valentine
I’ve been crushed lately, so my ds106 assignments have fallen to the wayside, but as I begin to emerge from the crazy—which is all good—I find I am just in time for the design assignments (my personal favorite). What’s more, … Continue reading
If I were to sum up this week of work in an image….
….it would look something like this. Yep, it was that good, and when I am not that exhausted I’ll try to elaborate.
My Favorite Witch
This past Halloween Anto got dressed up for Miles’s birthday (a good time to be born), and I promised myself I would make a GIF of my special lady friend in costume. Tada, four months later, here it is! That … Continue reading
Can Universities Reclaim the Web Too?
In the chapter on “The Public Engagement as Collateral Damage” in Martin Weller‘s The Digital Scholar he talks about the fact that traffic to user-generated content on commercial sites is far greater than free, open content on higher education sites: … Continue reading
From Punk to Policy
For over a year now I’ve been part of the Digital Learning Resource working group (along with 15 other representatives from a range of public colleges and universities) run by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. I’ve already written … Continue reading