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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
Has DTLT arrived at UMW?
Probably not, but regardless this image on UMW’s homepage is awesome. Rebels with a cause, indeed, and we have been having some serious fun over the last year. It is cool to love what you do! And out entire umw.edu … Continue reading
Monkey Steals the Peach
I just wanted to make sure that I posted this on the bava for posterity. This image profoundly touched me, and I want to thank @noiseprofessor for letting me know such a thing exists.
You Can’t Spell FERPA Without FEAR
I was sad to read over on Mark Guzdial’s Computing Education Blog that potential FERPA violations were being invoked in order to close down a wiki experiment at Georgia Tech that’s older than Wikipedia. Here is Mark’s rough reading of … Continue reading
UMW Blogs: A Student Persepective
The jackals at DTLT Today have been relenetless in reminding me that I have not been carrying my weight for the team’s TV show over the past few weeks. But come 4:15 PM this afternoon in UMW’s instructional technology nerve … Continue reading
Remix an Album Cover
Mikhail Gershovich pointed me to this crazy album cover remix of Sonic Youth’s Goo done by Juciy: And in the event you don’t know the original, here it is: After seeing it, I immediately thought of a #ds106 design/mashup assignment, and tweeted … Continue reading
UMW Students Hating on Artist Jeff Baij to Great Acclaim
Just a few days ago artist Jeff Baij praised myriad UMW students in Rosemary Jesionowski’s Digital Approaches to Fine Arts class that have been committed over the last several years to “shitting all over [his] art on their university blogs.” The … Continue reading
UMW Blogs trusts and loves you!
Sarah Cunnane, writer for the Times Higher Education blog, recently featured UMW Blogs as one of the rare scholarly publishing platforms for a university community that actually cultivates, encourages, and allows for open publishing by anyone in the UMW community. … Continue reading
#occupyopened11 Presentation
The Open Education 2011 conference has come and gone, and I would like to think my keynote got a few people thinking. I don’t believe everyone will like it, and I’m not even sure it is all that cogent—but there … Continue reading
Proud Papa, indeed
Katie Jones was part of the illustrious first class of ds106. A mighty internaut was she, and it has come to my attention on twitter that her ds106 kung-fu has not gone dormant. I couldn’t help but let her know … Continue reading
Information about your video “Creepshow: Ed Harris dancing disco”
I’m getting these messages from YouTube more and more these days—I got four in the last last two days. YouTube seems to be embracing it’s role as copyright constable, and their technology seems to be getting better and better—or else … Continue reading