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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
Augmentation, baby!
I, and everyone else in DTLT (and quite possibly the greater DC area), have been hearing a lot about augmenting the learning process from Gardner as of late. And while his enthusiasms are by no means lost on me, sometimes … Continue reading
Derecki for President!!!
Look at our own pushy New Yorker working the angles already! I thought Cathy was the new President for a second … read the whole story on Fredericksburg.com.
Hong Kong meets?
I just saw this video on WFMU: Beware the Blog (a new haunt for me with many a treasure) and I am not sure what to say about it. But this is a “b” blog, so I felt compelled to … Continue reading
CGI Sharks
I just saw this cgi video on boingboing and I am pretty much blown away, the detail for a web transmission is amazing. Scanline Flowline (the German CGI artists) recreates water so convincingly that all I can say is, WOW! … Continue reading
Movie List #1
Living in a small city with little, if nothing, happening has some untold benefits. Especially when you have access to an eclectic film library at your workplace. So, in an attempt to start chronicling one of my passions, I offer … Continue reading
Blogs: the look of the future?
Matthew Levine’s article “In Search of the Holy Grail” on A List Apart offers a straight-forward way to incorporate a three column layout for web designers with lean code, minimal CSS, and a consistent code order, heretofore a sloppy and … Continue reading
Irfanview – who knew?
I discovered a program today that fits many of the class needs for HISP 463, and it begins with my favorite four letters: FREE!!! While setting up a scanner in the Simpson Library at UMW (which will be used to … Continue reading
Uncontrollable Urge to Sell-out!
I was already deeply disappointed when I first heard that Devo was selling off song rights for two-bit commercials – something just seems lost when music you believed was critiquing mindless consumerism is being employed to hock a Twix! Below … Continue reading
James Harvey Dodd – a movie star?
Check this out, while searching Mary Washington on the internet archives I came up with a couple of gems, one from the 1940s and one from the 21st century: A group of teenagers on a high-school radio program discuss just … Continue reading