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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
@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
Syndication-Oriented Architecture: a Solution to Problem of Coherence
I’ve been preparing a talk that I will be delivering this afternoon for Campus Technology’s Virtual Leadership Summit. Given the session will be moderated by Gardner Campbell, I figured I’d take the opportunity to try and frame out the broader … Continue reading
Proud to be Maladjusted
Last month I had the pleasure of attending the last Great Lives lecture of the season, a talk delivered by Dr. Ghaemi entitled “Madness and Greatness” —you can see the video archive here. His talk, which is abstracted from his book of the … Continue reading
ds106zone: You are About to Enter Another Dimension
It’s been a long time coming and I hope you can forgive the delay, but as Luther would say in 48 Hours “I’ve been busy!” That’s right ladies and gentlemen, this is the long awaited—at least by Scottlo—post about ds106zone, the … Continue reading
UMW’s Innovation isn’t Technical, it’s Narrative
When someone as sharp as Leslie Madsen-Brooks writes an article about the state of innovation in higher education and points to UMW’s Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies (a.k.a DTLT) as the example, I can’t help but feel pretty good … Continue reading
OSU’s Writers Talk: Platforms that Unlock Passion
“I never knew writing could be so much fun”- EduPunk at OSU with @digitalfirstosu Innovate speaker @jimgroom on WT itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wri… — Writers Talk (@WritersTalk) May 8, 2013 Back in March I gave a keynote presentation at THE Ohio University’s InnovateOSU … Continue reading
bavatuesdays Episode 4: Blood and Black Lace
Above is the fourth episode of bavatuesdays, in this discussion Paul Bond and I take a look at Mario Bava’s 1964 giallo Blood and Black Lace. It’s quite a masterpiece of murderous technicolor, and it’s considered by many the beginning of … Continue reading
Oh, my offence is rank
I attended a Great Lives lecture on Abraham Lincoln delivered by Michael Burlingame at UMW the other night . Like so many others, I am intrigued that Lincoln continues to capture the popular imagination in some pretty powerful and playful ways long … Continue reading
bavatuesdays episode 3: The Girl Who Knew Too Much
This was a particularly fun discussion for me, and it came at a time that I desperately needed a distraction. Paul Bond continues to be nothing short of gold when it comes to these discussions about Mario Bava’s films, and … Continue reading
Designed to undermine
When I was in Cambridge, Massachusetts last weekend—which oddly (or not so oddly) seems like a lifetime ago—I spent some time talking to Audrey Watters about our somewhat similar visceral reactions to grad school. What I really like about Audrey’s … Continue reading
True Crime: Abortion Clinics in Virginia
I’ve been working through the thousands and thousands of posts in my feed reader as a kind of therapy this weekend, and as usual I come across a lot of amazing stuff. One blog that consistently blows my mind is … Continue reading