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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 Goon Docks
Inspired by Tech Savvy Ed‘s ds106 work-in-progress on twitter for a minimalist travel poster (see assignment here) I decided to try a quick one to keep me sharp. I am absolutely in love with the vintage “See America” travel posters and … Continue reading
Last Exit to ds106
Inspired by Cogdog’s ds106 image compulsion, I decided to have some fun with a recent gem “You Cant Exit ds106.” I basically used that image as a backdrop for my own sign slighting riffing off his sign. I’m still mucking … Continue reading
It’s a Friday MacGuffin
Inspired by this MacGuffin, I couldn’t resist a Friday in which Chris Tucker was the responsible, worker bee 🙂 Here is the “Messing with the MacGuffin” assignment if you are interested.
Fat Chance … #ds106 could rock any harder
I’m not sure if you have been noticing, but Michael Branson Smith and the CUNY Yorkians have been tearing up ds106. The work there has been amazing, and MBS’s latest work “Fat Chance” which is a series of Monopoly cards … Continue reading
Criss-cross
Here is my contribution to the 4 Icon Challenge assignment. It’s a classic, but do you know which one?
Understanding #occupywallstreet
I want to thank @ottonomy (Nate Otto) for the link to this article by Douglas Rushkoff that really helped me understand #occupywallstreet, particularly the following quote. That’s because, unlike a political campaign designed to get some person in office and … Continue reading
Bavastock was so good…
…it even made Tom Woodward smile 🙂 Image credit: Cogdog’s “Good Times”
PSU #4life
I was fortunate enough to visit the great folks at Penn State University last week. And it is amazingly to me that we found time between #drunkcasts on #ds106radio to sit down with the E-Portfolio crew, the Digital Commons crew, … Continue reading
#bavastock
Starting Thursday, September 29th and running through October 3rd there will be a 5 day ds106 hippie extravaganza affectionately known as #bavastock. You wanna play, leave a comment. It will be aired on ds106radio, ds106tv, and on a blog near … Continue reading
Hooray!
Bugs Bunny gets all the love, but Woody Woodpecker was just as bad ass, so I’m dedicating my first GIF in a long while to the classic “Niagara Fools” episode, which this GIF is taken from. If you haven’t seen … Continue reading