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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.
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-James D. Calder
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-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
Renaissance Ruins: Local, Web-Based Phenomenon
Turns out the Renaissance Faire ruins making the rounds on the internet over the weekend are literally in my backyard. [You can find out more about its history here.] You have no idea how bad I want to film a … Continue reading
School Pictures
In Puerto Rico last week I gave an extemporaneous presentation about how I got into blogging. My blog origins were only tangentially related to education, I was first and foremost a blogfather. I started blogging to understand the birth of … Continue reading
Reclaim Your Domain: Honing the Vision
I have a ton to write about because this past week was pretty intense. The Minding the Future event on Monday, OpenVA on Tuesday, travel to Puerto Rico on Wednesday, a workshop at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazon on Thursday … Continue reading
Domain of One’s Own: Notes from the Trailing Edge
Image credit: Giulia Forsythe’s “Domain of One’s Own by @jimgroom #TEDxUSagrado #viznotes” This morning I was fortunate enough to present at the first university sponsored TEDX event in Puerto Rico hosted at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón and organized by … Continue reading
ds106 Assignment Bank 2.0
I couldn’t resist the 2.0 designation for the new ds106 assignment bank given that kind of thing is at its nadir in popularity 😉 More than a week ago Alan Levine took me through the new assignment he’s been designing … Continue reading
UNF Could be Your Life
More than a week ago I had the pleasure of spending two days on the ground at the University of Northern Florida (UNF) in Jacksonville, something I alluded to in my last post about sharks. One of the things I will … Continue reading
Mary Lee You’re Too Close to Shore
When I was at the University of North Florida last week (an awesome experience I’m planning on blogging) I had the pleasure of hanging out with the folks from the Center for Instructional & Research Technology. One of the things … Continue reading
ds106: It’s All About the Trailing Edge
I recommend you go read Jon Udell’s post “MOOCs need to be user innovation toolkits” in its entirety, but I want to reproduce almost half of that post below because it nicely captures an approach to educational technology many of … Continue reading
All Aboard!!!
More than a week ago the President of UMW, Rick Hurley, published a piece in The Huffington Post explainging how and why UMW was “Getting Aboard the Hightech Train.” What’s crazier than anything, is why it’s taken me over a week … Continue reading
ds106 Defends the Open Web
I just listened to Brian Bennett’s follow-up audio to the compelling explanation of what ds106 is that he published last week. His audio producing talents are razor sharp, and this follow-up piece was particularly compelling for me because it starts … Continue reading