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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
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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Author Archives: Reverend
What do Escape from New York, John Carpenter, and ds106 have in common?
This made my day—hell, it made my year. Andrew Forgrave asked the great John Carpenter to dedicate an Escape from New York poster to me (with some #ds106 love no less). Amazing, what an awesome confluence of culture: Carpenter, Snake Plisken, ds106, and movie … Continue reading
Cal State Online Program Outsourced to Pearson
Via Tony Bates, the Cal State system has outsourced their entire online infrastructure and expertise to Pearson. This is pretty insane, and I have to agree with what Bates suggests may be the tragic mistake in such a move: All … Continue reading
The State of Aggregation at UMW
I’m usually not a whiteboard image blogger, but we’ve been going through some structural work at UMW with various projects and we are having to map things out more and more. One of the things we’ve been working on with … Continue reading
A Round-Up of Fall 2012 Projects at DTLT
The Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies (DTLT) at UMW is a high-functioning, self-motivated group. We all know our roles, and we perform them with precision regularly. A well-oiled machine, if you will. We haven’t had a staff meeting in … Continue reading
The Rabbit in Red Lounge
I am a fan of Sean Hartter’s design blog, it is always nice to catch up on all his pop culture revamps. I particularly liked the design of the “The Rabbit in Red Lounge” matches which is an obscure reference … Continue reading
Would You Submit This Promotion Letter?
Update: Had to change title from tenure to promotion because it was not that but this 🙂 Almost two years ago Mara Scanlon asked me to write a promotion letter in support of her application for full professor here at … Continue reading
What if….
Below Brad Kozlek is framing Chris Long’s quote from Jeff Jarvis’ The Buzz Machine: I have been arguing that news organizations should reimagine and rebuild themselves as platforms for their communities, enabling people to share what they know and adding … Continue reading
Old School Open
I am fascinated by the idea of Virginia public colleges and universities sharing resources using something as new fangled as the world wide web. And come to find out there is even a precedent! Syllabus for a Commonwealth Version of … Continue reading
Late to the Party: Migrating an outdated WPMu to WordPress Multisite
The migration process from WPMu (roughly version 2.9.2) to WordPress Multisite (version 3.4.1) has been well documented already. Two sources I found useful for a straightforward tutorial for doing the migration—which I imagine everyone who is anyone has already done … Continue reading
UMW’s Website Showcased by WordPress
I just discovered that UMW’s website is showcased on WordPress.org. UMW has been running WordPress for it’s entire website for almost a year now, and it’s pretty sweet and Cathy Derecki and Curtiss Grymala deserve all the credit. To get … Continue reading