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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
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-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
“Yeah….I’ve been busy”
One of my favorite film quotes of all time, and it’s all in the way Luther says it. If you know the film, then you are my hero. What’s more, no one had this quote isolated on YouTube, what a … Continue reading
Creepshow: Ed Harris has got smooth moves
I’m a fan of Ed Harris. No matter what movie I see him in I always seem to like him—even if that’s not necessarily how I feel about the film he happens to be in. That said, he’s been in … Continue reading
Testing Wiki Append plugin
I have previously had problems getting the WIki Append plugin to work on this blog, but I think that is no longer the case. Am I right? If it works, the following article is a multi-media project students in Mara … Continue reading
Come and play with us, Danny
Man, I think I came across one of the coolest things I have ever seen today. I was in a nondescript Z Pizza joint in Franconia, and the pizza wasn’t too terrible as extra-NYC pizza goes. That said, I will … Continue reading
My mother? Let me tell you about my mother….
Thanks to Zach Davis for the pointer to the brilliant blog “If we don’t, remember me.” it’s a concept blog that only has animated gifs from scenes of iconic films that somehow seem to capture the spirit of the movies they come … Continue reading
ds106 needs mo’ better design
I absolutely love spacesick‘s homage to various movies by making them into old school books with fascinating, minimalistic design that somehow captures the essence of the films. The series is called “I can read movies”, and the whole thing really … Continue reading
Il Mashup: some ds106 productions
I was unbelievably impressed with the mashups the internauts in ds106 came up with for our 9th assignment. I took a pretty different approach to video this semester, I stuck with it intensively for about 3 or 4 weeks. Andy … Continue reading
Talking to Your Kids About Star Wars
Thanks to one of the elite ds106 alum, Modern Selkie, I was turned on to this gem. What’s odd is that this video really does capture my attitude towards Star Wars and teaching it to my children. In fact, my … Continue reading
DS106 Plays Caption This
It all started with this Retweet by Melanie McBride this morning: It just so happens that I caught this in the stream and my interrest was piqued when I saw Google Street View mentioned because right now the ds106 internauts … Continue reading
1,000,000+ views on YouTube
Sometime this month the 176 videos I have uploaded to my YouTube channel have been collectively viewed more than 1 million times—well, 1,041,448 to be exact. It’s pretty crazy to think videos I have uploaded have been watched that many … Continue reading