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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
5 reasons why I want to go to Northern Voice
My plea for travel funds from Northern Voice at UBC: More seriously, I have no more developmental funds from UMW left, and I think that Northern Voice is where I need to be. The structure of the conference, the caliber … Continue reading
Where should the Locus of Control be?
Darcy Norman recently had a great post on current definitions of the digital native and spaghetti sauce. I love his metaphysical marriage of such unlikely bedfellows as learners and gravy. He adopts this conceit from Malcolm Gladwell’s 2004 TedTech Talk … Continue reading
Who says there is no good content on Youtube?
Please be warned that this video requires a sense of humor![youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc[/youtube]
Pasting a Word Document into WordPress
Over the past two semesters I have gotten a bunch of complaints about the crazy formatting that results when pasting a MS Word document into the WordPress visual rich text editor. Well, those days are over thanks to Peter Baumgartner’s … Continue reading
Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout – a quick review
This week has been a long one, the semester starts Monday and I have much to say about my recent experiments with Drupal, MediaWiki, bbpress, Open Journal Systems, and WordPress. But until I muster up the time and energy to … Continue reading
A Few Customizing Tips for K2
The semester is coming, so here’s a little something to keep you going… Including a Custom Header Image in K2: To include a custom header in K2 you have two options. You can use the custom header tool in the … Continue reading
The WordPress Plugins in My Life
Seems like the Cog Dog and teachinghacks.com having been doing a little sharing about their WordPress plugins, which I find extremely useful -so thanks. I have been talking a bit lately about some of the plugins I have recently discovered … Continue reading
Alex King’s Articles Plugin for WordPress
If you haven’t already, go check out Alex King’s post about the plugins he is employing for the redevelopment of his WordPress site. He has produced some unbelievably cool functionality for WordPress, and the community owes him much. I took … Continue reading
Colonizing Social Sites: It’s Fun & It’s FREE!
Jim Spadacinni at Ideum recently posted on the potential of institutions -in this case museums- to colonize web 2.0 spaces (article link). He brings up a lot of excellent examples in his post. See his discussion of the Los Angeles … Continue reading
Optimizing with Optimal -A Plugin for WordPress
I have been playing pretty intently with WordPress these days in an attempt to develop out a UMW Division of Teaching & Learning Technologies site that features our projects, aggregates our blog posts & del.iciou.us feeds, while also acting as … Continue reading