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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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Author Archives: Reverend
A bava face trace
A bava face trace, a photo by snakepliskens on Flickr. This Daily Create is my first of many assignments for ds106 this Summer—I’m a camper through and through and it’s never too late to join in on the fun, get started … Continue reading
Fear of a YouTube Planet
Today it occurred to me that I’m probably gonna lose my YouTube account very soon. Like a lot of folks on YouTube, I upload silly videos I’ve made, clips I’ve ripped from DVDs to talk about films I like, random … Continue reading
Open Lab/Open Hearts: the Video
I’m becoming a really comfortable presenter, some might even suggest too comfortable—which I would agree. But this video of my 20 minute presentation at the opening of CUNY’s Open Lab site (I blogged it here) actually has one of my … Continue reading
Thinking about the Library of Congress Movie MOOC
I recently watched These Amazing Shadows (2012) based on Andy Rush’s recommendation and it got me extremely intrigued with the criteria for getting a film on the National Film Registry, what exactly does “artistically, culturally, and socially significant” mean? Seems like these … Continue reading
Faculty Academy 2012: Under Disruption
A week from today Faculty Academy with be doing its 17th tour of duty at UMW. It’s become a mainstay on campus, and it’s become one of the few events where the teaching and learning that happens all year on … Continue reading
Reason number 12,250 why blogging rules
I’m a pretty regular blogger, since December 2005 I have blogged on average 285 posts a year, every year for almost seven years. It’s not all good, it’s not all pretty (especially grammar wise 🙂 ), and it’s not all … Continue reading
Alien GIFs
The following GIFs are all way too big, but I don’t care. I’ve watched Alien a few times this week, and I can’t get enough of it. I want to do a GIF series about computers from films during the … Continue reading
Disneyland Dream (1956)
While doing research about The 7th Voyage of Sinbad for my last post I discovered, thanks to this 2008 post on Cartoon Brew, that in 2008 a home movie taken in 1956 at Disneyland titled “Disneyland Dream” was selected for … Continue reading
Harryhausen’s Dynamation is Dynamite on the Big Screen
Yesterday is one of the moments as a parent I’ve been waiting impatiently for: taking my kids to a Ray Harryhausen film in beautiful 35mm on the big screen! And let me tell you it was worth the excruciating wait! … Continue reading
ds106 Summer Session: Camp Magic MacGuffin
As Alan Levine has already blogged, ds106 is running again this Summer and it should be a blast. It’s a 10 week session being co-taught by Martha Burtis and Alan, and it promises to be insane. There’s a Summer Camp … Continue reading