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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
“EdTech transmissions: We Control the Vertical and the Horizontal” at Maricopa College
Back in May I was lucky enough to be invited by the good folks of the Maricopa College System (the largest community college district in the US) to talk about edtech as a change agent in higher education at their … Continue reading
Shenandoah debuts online
It’s official, Shenandoah literary magazine has made the move from print to online-only. What’s more, it just so happens that I was integral in the process of moving this journal to WordPress—where else could it go? Martha Burtis and I … Continue reading
Independent Domains – Thresholds to Teaching and Learning on the Open Web
A couple of weeks ago I had the distinct pleasure of delivering the closing plenary session at the Elon University’s 8th Annual Teaching and Learning Conference. Katie King, Ben McFadyen, and Claudia Sparks were awesome, and special thanks to Peter … Continue reading
Back to school at UMW (Blogs)
We just finished our first week at UMW—-it was an uncharacteristically late start for us. We are usually in week two or three by now, but I am not complaining because the extra spell before game time was nice. That … Continue reading
A DTLT Today Weekly Round Up (9-2-11)
There were a ton of solid DTLT Today episodes last week. Tim Owens and I interviewed Antonio Vantaggiato on his work in progress (The Zen of Teaching) that interviews a variety of folks about the myths surrounding teaching, learning, and … Continue reading
Google+ I barely knew you, or deleting my Google+ account
I fired Google+ today. No real moral outrage or grandiose theories about advertising companies owning our souls, though that is all absolutely true and I am already beyond the pale. But, in the end, I just wanted to pull a … Continue reading
4 Icon Cookie Challenge….the bava abides
I just happened to stumble upon some images from the recent Lebowskifest cast reunion (the film was made over 13 years ago!!!). I’m an unabashed fan, so I got sucked down the rabbit hole. The images led me to the … Continue reading
DTLT’s Corporate Cuddle Couch
This is why I love what I do and the folks I do it with. DTLT Today is a total blast, every EdTech shop should try this—it’s a great daily exercise for conversing, sharing, trust and thinking. Below is a … Continue reading
Personal, not corporate, expression
I came across a video interview on Democracy Now with Brewster Kahle and Rick Prelinger—two of the great open content pioneers of the digital age—talking about digital preservation, the Google juggernaut, and the home movie archive. One of the things … Continue reading
I corrected him!
Image credit: “IWDRM” Remember who loves you Andy, and don’t you make me correct you with your infatuation with DTLT’s new boy—I am the one. NOBODY!!!