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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
Locked out of YouTube
I was playing with uploading video to my YouTube account from a hand held device (the video is now featured above) and I got locked out of my YouTube account. This wasn’t the first time this has happened since I … Continue reading
The Vertical and the Horizontal
I will be presenting a quick 15-20 minute session at the Council of Independent Colleges conference focusing on History and Information Fluency. I was pretty inspired by James Grossman’s talk tonight about how information can be understood in terms of … Continue reading
Going Looney at CUNY: A Presentation
This past Friday I had the pleasure of presenting to a group of CUNY faculty at the City College of Technology who are embarking on multi-year experimentation with open publishing platforms in their classrooms. The push is being spearheaded by … Continue reading
Dear EDUPUNK,
I’m terribly sorry I had to do this through my blog, this is not easy for me at all, honestly. This post may be the last memory we ever share on this blog, but I have to come clean: I’m … Continue reading
Preparing for Northern Voice: My Abstract
Name: Jim Groom Email: jimgroom_at_gmail.com URL: http:// Talk Title: ds106: learn it, live it, love it!! Room Size: Don’t Care! Abstract: All I can say is that we need to do a live radio broadcast of ds106 madness, and you … Continue reading
Anyone out there got good audio assignment ideas?
This is a quick attempt to generate some cool audio assignments for #ds106. We’re moving into a 2-3 week section on storytelling with audio, and various groups of participants will be focusing on collaboratively producing a radio show (see the … Continue reading
DS106 Audio Assignment
For the next three weeks, you will be working in small groups to produce a 30 minute radio show to be broadcast on ds106 radio. Here are your guidelines: Work in groups of 3-4 and come up with a group … Continue reading
This Valentine’s day I <3 ds106
I have a post coming which is gonna feature some of the intense, mad creative energy that has characterized ds106 thus far—note we are just starting week 6, not even half way through. But in the mean time, check out … Continue reading
ds106 Week 6: Bitch ‘n Design, Audio, and Conferences
ds106ers, Welcome to week 6, we have a few things to cover as we make the transition from visual/design to audio and I have outlined them below. Please take care to read this email/post through in its entirety, and do … Continue reading
The Thing and those crazy Sweders
Martin Weller and I will be talking about The Thing tomorrow on bavathursdays, and I figured out the audio, and now I was just looking around for stuff we might use, and general talking points etc. And lo and behold … Continue reading