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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
Multiple Domains on WPMu: Mission Accomplished!
Well, I hate to quote our fearless leader out of turn, but unlike him I really was successful! I had blogged earlier this semester about the potential possibilities available to UMW if we were to pursue mapping multiple domains to … Continue reading
The “Read” Poster Re-defined
Now this is a “Read” poster I can get behind! See another one featuring Tupac here. Both thanks to the creative genius of Tom Woodward at the Bionic Teaching blog. Anyone know the lyrics that come immediately before this line?
“[Vito] Acconci is to video…
…what [Marcel] Duchamp is to Sculpture” -Carole Garmon I hadn’t heard of Vito Acconci before yesterday afternoon when I read these two posts on professor Carole Garmon’s Video Art class blog which led to a discussion (in person!) shortly afterwards … Continue reading
Wonder Twin Powers Activate!
Finally, the controversial episode from this static duo’s past has recently been unearthed. “Wonder Twins Gopher Moat” is now available on YouTube and all the dirt they never wanted you to see has finally been made available. This short episode … Continue reading
If you will it, it is no dream!
Nathan‘s just one of many recently converted disciples, this could be you! And another disciple in Barbara, who seems to have a shrine going… Thanks for playing along with my shameless self-promotion!
Raiding the Internet Archive
Figured I’d start the week off right and play with some public domain video from the Internet Archive. I set a couple of clips (Babies on Parade and Television Commercials: Telephone) to the mellifluous sounds of one of my favorite … Continue reading
Two Must-See Melodramas by Douglas Sirk
if you’re not yet a Douglas Sirk fan, you really should be. All that Heaven Allows (1955) and Written on the Wind (1956)–both starring the beautiful and extremely talented Rock Hudson–are two of his best 1950s melodramas and would make … Continue reading
Why I Want to Move to Canada…
Now there are a lot of great people in Canada (particularly in the EdTech realm) but I have a fine time communicating with and learning from them in a distributed manner from the continental 48. It wasn’t until I read … Continue reading
Customize the WPMu Dashboard
Here’s a simple hack to make your WordPress Multi-User Dashboard display news and recent posts from within your specific WPMu community. For example, I am going to briefly illustrate how to display the “Latest News” for our community (traditionally where … Continue reading
UMW Guerilla Art Blog
Martha and I were talking yesterday about the unlikely place we separately discovered a new Mary Washington blog: Campus Walk. A big banner on the main stretch through campus featured a little information about the Guerilla Art Liberation Lives (GALL) … Continue reading