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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
The Daily Create (tdc19): Tell a Joke
I did a bunch of jokes for Friday’s Daily Create, (as did a lot of other people, many of which aren’t showing on the TDC site) an I have to say The Daily Create (TDC) is a total blast. I … Continue reading
Bill Gates Shilling for Subway
Bill Gates during a more modest career moment as sandwich board operator for Subway. Process: Using GIMP, I simply layered this image of Bill Gates on top of this city scape image. Finally, I scaled each layer to fit the … Continue reading
DTLT controls the Vertical and the Horizontal
Two weeks ago the DTLT group presented at the Educause Midatlantic Regional Conference in Baltimore, Maryland. The panel discussion covered ds106—what else is there? Martha Burtis provided an overview of the course, Tim Owens the technical framework, I featured the … Continue reading
This Week in ds106: Tune in Tokyo
This afternoon I caught up with Scott Lockman to talk about the awesome work his students over at Temple University, Japan (TUJ) have been doing thus far. Over the past week one of the TUJ students submitted this Patty Pioneers … Continue reading
Basket Blur
Basket Blur, a photo by snakepliskens on Flickr. Via Flickr:The Daily Create for 1/28/12: “Take a photo where movement of the camera creates an interesting blur effect.” Antonella suggested I post this one (of the 80+ I took), but I … Continue reading
This Week in ds106: Gardner Campbell on Personal Cyberinfrastructures
ds106: Gardner Campbell talks Personal Cyberinfrastructure from umwnewmedia on Vimeo. Once again this semester we were privileged to have Gardner Campbell, the inspiration for the ethos of ds106, join us via Skype to talk about everything from his essay on … Continue reading
Patty Pioneers: No Turtle, Chicken!
I just couldn’t resist the Pioneer Patty assignment that the Tokyo ds106ers are rocking out to. How cool to make an assignment that turns a series of innovative computer mavericks into fast food fanatics in order show how much you … Continue reading
ds106 and blog experimenting
ds106 week 2: Blog Experimenting from umwnewmedia on Vimeo. During this evening’s session of ds106 we went over some wrap up from week 1, the importance of commenting, and let everyone know it is high time they start blogging. To that … Continue reading
This Week in ds106 (Episode 1)
Hope your first week went well and was not too disorientating in terms of ds106. I wanted to send you a quick note to remind you of a few things. Week 1 Assignments: 1) For the first week you have … Continue reading
Week 1 Assignments: Domain, Webhost, the Daily Create, and tuning into #ds106
Given that ds106.us has been blacked out for #SOPA, and that bavatuesdays will never black out for nobody….NOBODY!!! I figured I would re-publish this week’s assignments below. Purchasing your Webserver and Domain Important: Please, please, please pay attention to your … Continue reading