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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
Reclaim the Robot
Well, if nothing else it should be clear by this point that Tim Owens and I do not play around—we are all business! Case in point, two years ago in this article in the Free Lance-Star we noted that at … Continue reading
Domain Dolphins at Coventry
I have been a big fan of the work happening with Domain of One’s Own at Coventry University. The work Daniel Villar-Onrubio, Lauren Heywood, and the recently departed Charlie Legge have done to build that program from the ground up … Continue reading
Wake-up! The Domains19 Schedule is Out
We have finalized the schedule for both day 1 and day 2 of Domains19, and you can see them both online here. It’s quite a line-up, and as Lauren has already announced, we are thrilled to add our fourth and … Continue reading
Why Sponsor those #OER19 Hippies?
As part of Reclaim Hosting’s sponsorship of OER19 we get a post. And given Alan Levine is giving me shit about my recent blog numbers — can you believe the nerve of that guy?— if nothing else I figure this … Continue reading
Reclaim’s Slow and Steady Ascent
https://www.instagram.com/p/BvXP4dNlWxH/ This weekend Antonella and I did what was our most impegnativo (an Italian word used to describe something that is long, arduous, and exacting) hike to date. We hiked Marzola, the mountain that separates Trento from Valsugana, which is over … Continue reading
Star Rider (1983)
Tim unveiled his plans to restore a sourced Smash TV cabinet on the Reclaim Arcade blog earlier today, and he made the surprising point that Smash TV is our third fourth Williams cabinet after Defender, Joust, and Make Trax. That … Continue reading
Reclaim Arcade: Free Play All Day!
That’s right, it has gotten to a point where we can soon start referring to our growing collection of cabinet video games as a bonafide arcade thanks to Tim’s weekend binge collector’s road trip. We have 11 operational cabinets at … Continue reading
Be Kind, Reclaim
Meredith, Lauren, and I are gearing up for the OER19 conference in Galway in a couple of weeks, a trip we are all looking very much forward to. In fact, I have a post due quite soon for the OER19 … Continue reading
VR or, how Tommaso became Beat Saber Boy
https://www.instagram.com/p/BvRGmbelZUY/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link A couple of years back now—Christmas 2016 to be precise—we got the Virtual Reality headset for the PS4. I was pretty fired up about the idea of a new form of gaming coming to the living room (kinda like … Continue reading
Reclaim Video’s The Weekly Watch 002
Getting back into that bava blog groove, and oh it feels so good! I blogged my weekly watch at Reclaim Video a few weeks ago, so this is more catch-up. Once I get settled a bit I’ll pick this up … Continue reading