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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
Bill the Butcher
I spent too much time on this not to post it here. I used the beta version of MPEG Streamclip for the Mac which seems to be working beautifully still in terms of allowing you to pull in YouTube videos … Continue reading
Stills from Alien
Given my last post, I couldn’t resist sharing Gavin J. Rothery post featuring a series of photos of the Nostromo crew from Alien (1979). I found this post via the brundlefly blog, an as a sidenote that blog also has … Continue reading
I Can Read Alien
One of the assignments I have been dying to do for over a year, but have never been brave enough to try is the I Can Read Movies design assignment. My first attempt at this assignment is rather derivative, I … Continue reading
The ds106 site: a few notes and a wish
We’re hard at work on a number of elements with regards to the ds106 site, and this post will take you through some of the upgrades we’ve done, possible new features, and even a wish or two. A lot of … Continue reading
Etherized upon a table
Giving Serena’s “Picturing Prufrock” assignment another go, I decided to hit up the awesome archival image site Shorpy for some shots of old school surgery rooms, and this gem titled “The Cutting Room” from The Brooklyn Navy Yard circa 1900 … Continue reading
Mist-ifying Prufrock
Serena Epstein has a fun new assignment for ds106 that asks you to illustrate an image from T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock” through the medium of your choice. As soon as I saw the assignment a … Continue reading
ds106: We’re open and you’re invited!
Image credit: CogDog’s “Open is Welcoming” That’s right, ds106 is running again in the Spring of 2012. If you have no idea what ds106 is, read more about it here. We’re still ironing out the syllabus for … Continue reading
Traffic on UMW Blogs and a few notes
Yesterday was the last day of the Fall semester so I took a quick screenshot of traffic on UMW Blogs in Google Analytics over the last four months, which looks like this: Which made me think, how does this compare … Continue reading
ds106: Stories In Our Digital Age
Three students in Jeff McClurken’s #infoage course, Ashley Lightburn, Joe Calpin, and Caitlyn Murphy, put together a ten minute documentary about ds106. I am obviously excited by the idea that students think this course is interesting enough to make a … Continue reading
Who’s afraid of the big bad #sopa?
…I am! And in the latest episode of DTLT Today Boone and Wally Gorges lay out a pretty compelling case why anyone doing anything related to open education online in higher education should be too. Boone and Wally brilliantly talked … Continue reading