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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
I just shaved
Shorn – Jim Groom Bares It All from Tom Woodward on Vimeo. Update: The YouTube video below is a relic from my now terminated YouTUbe account (7/13/12). Tom Woodward and I, we’re making art now.
Zombieland
Zombieland looks to be a Hollywood highlight reel made up of the most creative ways to kill zombies, which is absolutely something I can get behind these days.
Noodling with the Catfish
I’ll be spending part of this holiday weekend down in Slocum Alabama with the great Tom “Catfish” Woodward. So it seems like the edtech survivalists will find themselves together once again. In fact, Catfish promised we’d do some noodling, a popular … Continue reading
WPMu as OCW Platform….a solution?
David Wiley just blogged about using WPMu as an OCW solution, and one of the issues he is running into is directory structure. What he wants is each department to have its own parent blog, and then child blogs within … Continue reading
Spider-man 1967, Episode 14
‘The Golden Rhino”: The Rhino is back and he’s stolen two truckloads of gold to make a shining statue of himself. Now, Spider-Man must find a way to stop the unstoppable Rhino! ”Blueprint For Crime”: When Spider-Man foils a heist … Continue reading
Spider-man 1967, Episode 13
“Return Of The Flying Dutchman”: When the famed ship The Flying Dutchman appears near Smuggler’s Cove, Spider-Man decides to investigate. While peering out to sea, Spider-Man is attacked and follows the goons to discover that Mysterio is behind the holograms … Continue reading
Spider-man 1967, Episode 12
“Spider-Man Meets Doctor Noah Boddy”: J. Jonah Jameson is framed for burglary by an invisible man. Now, Spider-Man must figure out how to defeat a foe he can’t see in order to save his boss. “The Fantastic Fakir”: Spider-Man encounters … Continue reading
Spider-man 1967, Episode 11
“The Night of the Villains”: Spider-Man fails to stop Blackbeard from stealing a treasure chest and Jesse James from robbing a bank. After tackling a Paris Executioner, Spider-Man finds the villains are all wax robots created by Parafino. “Here Comes … Continue reading
Spider-man 1967, Episode 10
“The Revenge of Dr. Magneto”: A disgruntled scientist uses magnetism to destroy parts of the city in order to gain recognition and fame. Spider-Man must race to prevent each catastrophe before the city is destroyed. “The Sinister Prime Minister”: The … Continue reading
What’s your favorite performance of literature?
OK, I just stopped in at the great Terry Kennedy’s Literature in Performance blog, and I noticed the students were starting to post examples of poetry readings found around the web. One student, LoneEagle, actually put a clip up from … Continue reading