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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
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-James D. Calder
@jimgroom is the Billy Martin of edtech.
-Luke Waltzer
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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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Author Archives: Reverend
Some Raro Poliziottesco
Since my trip to Italy I’ve been thinking a lot about the Poliziottesco genre of Italian b-movies. I’ve also been watching my fair share. Raro Video, a publishing house located in Minneapolis, has been brilliant enough to re-release a lot of … Continue reading
UMW Domains-Now with More Community!
Domain of One’s Own has been an unqualified success, and Martha’s post on this project provides a nice summary of where we are at six months in. We’re on track to have more than 700 folks in the UMW community with … Continue reading
Twitch Plays Pokemon: an Allegory for Scale?
Last week, during a discussion in the Internet Course, Matt Arnold brought up the game Twitch Plays Pokemon while we were talking about consumption and creation on the web. He noted that currently thousands of people were playing a Pokemon game online … Continue reading
HTML is beautiful
We’ve been moving right along in the Internet Course, and it’s starting to find a nice rhythm. Last week the panelists led a lively, engaged discussion on the topic of consumption and creation on the internet. This week we’re talking … Continue reading
Tim Owens: Making it Happen
There’s an article by Lindley Estes in yesterday’s Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg’s local newspaper) about UMW’s makerspaces. It chronicles the work Tim Owens has done, alongside education professor George Meadows and library director Rosemary Arneson, to create UMW’s Thinklab—a makerspace in the … Continue reading
Classes I want to teach
One of the best things about my job at UMW is that I’ve been able to teach a wide range of courses across a few disciplines. So far I’ve taught nine different courses, and one of them six (soon to … Continue reading
Open is as Open Does
Yesterday I presented alongside Martha Burtis about ds106 for the OpenVCU Symposium. Martha and I have presented about this course together before, and each time it’s a real treat because we tend feed off each other’s excitment. It also helps … Continue reading
Domains in the Afterglow
Below is an abstract of the presentation I’ll be giving at Emory Unviersity as part of the Domain Incubator event this Friday (Valentine’s Day!) Baruch College at the end of March. I came up with it a couple of week’s … Continue reading
Going Online
My oldest son, Miles, brought home this “Going Online” worksheet last night. I’m not entirely sure where to start on this worksheet, but the sixth question does sadden me a bit—bloggers still get no love. I had to break it to … Continue reading
What Richard Scarry has to Teach Us About Domains
We’ve been rolling out Domain of One’s Own this year at UMW, which means DTLT has been busy introducing it to faculty and students. I’ve been working on an anology over the last few months (I’m not sure it reaches the … Continue reading