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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
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-James D. Calder
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-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
Now where was I?
October was pretty much a lost month for me, between working on the new casa la bava and preparing for my third child, I’ve been out of the loop. I had to put 110 Days to Xmas on ice (resurrection … Continue reading
The Sordid History of Learning Object Repositories or, a chat with Brian Lamb
Barry Dahl recently blogged the following video he took at the WCET of Brian Lamb chatting about Learning Object Repositories, which provides an excellent overview of the logic of EdTech circa 2001. The idea of educational repositories for content as … Continue reading
66.6 on Your AM Dial: It’s Uncanny Learning
Image credit: Cogdog’s “Uncanny Learning” Last week I had the good fortune of co-presenting with Tom Woodard and Brian Lamb at the NMC’s Symposium for the Future. The presentations were all supposed to look towards the future, and for our … Continue reading
EDUPUNK Interview: Educational Commodification, Origins, and the Reification of an Idea
Click to v Some time this month I was interviewed by Jim Saunders, Steve Howard, and Nicole Veerman about EDUPUNK. The were interested in the idea, and they are doing a series of interviews as a part of their graduate … Continue reading
Looking for Whitman, or “Shut the Front Door!”
Well, if I am gonna be honest with myself I have to admit that I have been a total “beauty school dropout” this semester, I have been trying hard to keep up with my various duties, but the tidal wave … Continue reading
Edupumkin, or how Tom Woodward stole my heart
If you don’t think Tom Woodward is a total maniac already, you’ll need no more proof than this to be finally convinced. How can I not love this guy with all my heart, he is the creative master behind everything … Continue reading
A Bava Bumrush of WordCamp NYC
I’m pretty excited for the upcoming WordCamp in NYC, not only is it a wonderful excuse to go back home, but it is also shaping up to be one of the biggest WordPress shindigs ever. Moreover, it’s being hosted at … Continue reading
FAQ for Universities Interested in WPMu
This morning I had a fun conversation with David Grogan, Ilene Chen, Stephen McDonald, and Hannah Reeves from the academic technology group at Tufts University. They had some questions about running a large scale WPMu installation at Tufts University, and … Continue reading
And how does BuddyPress fit in to that future?
After writing my last post, I realized that a key ingredient to the future of the WP/WPmu merger will actually be BuddyPress. I really like what BuddyPress brings to UMW Blogs: a blogs directory, a member directory, groups, and profile … Continue reading