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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
āReverendā Jim āThe Bavaā Groom, alias āSnake Pliskinā is a charlatan and a fraud, a self-confessed āused car salesmanā clawing his way into the glamour of the education technology keynote circuit via the efforts of his oppressed minions at the University of Mary Washingtonās DTLT and beyond. The monster behind educational time-sink ds106 and still recovering from his bid for hipster stardom with āEdupunkā, 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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Category Archives: digital storytelling
Forbidden O’Blivion
There is some serious madness happening in ds106’s Summer of O’Blivion, and Michael Branson Smith’s video editing has been amazing as the above Forbidden Planet remix video bears witness to. Just in time for the video section of this course, … Continue reading
Oblvion Camp: A Course To Dismember!
This ds106 radio show may very well be your last! The 1:00 minute bumper promoting the ds106radio show that will decisively end the #ds107 insurrection, once and for all!! Ds106-oblivion-camp-bumper by jimgroom The :30 second bumper that will put an … Continue reading
Is this darkness in you, too?
Transmissions from the front lines This great evil – where’s it come from? How’d it steal into the world? What seed, what root did it grow from? Who’s doing this? Who’s killing us, robbing us of life and light? Mocking … Continue reading
Little pigs, little pigs….
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere’s Jimmy!
ds106 Live Broadcast 7-6-11 The Oblivion Family, the ds106radio show, and insurrection
All, This is not Jim Groom, it is his wife Antonella Dalla Torre, and I am simply passing this email along that I found open on my husband’s computer. He seems to be under a lot of stress and is … Continue reading
BANISHED!!!
Update: The transcript from the live chat of this session is now available here. Not sure if you have seen today’s live broadcast yet, but it turns out that the O’Blivion family has decided to try and commandeer my course, … Continue reading
What should the ds106 radio show theme be?
The poll on my blog isn’t working so take it on the d106 site here.
Dr. O’Blivion speaks through song
Thanks to Shannotate I think we now have more clues about Dr. O’Blivion’s mysterious disappearance and his whereabouts: Doc Oblivion “Speaks!” by Shannon Nicole Swanson The Dickie Goodman’s “Break-In” audio assignment is a blast, thanks Laura Blankenship! Here is another … Continue reading
7-5-11 Live Broadcast on ds106radio, audio assignments, and our radio show
Here is the link to today’s broadcast on justin.tv, I am currently waiting on access to upload today’s video to a YouTube that can handle videos longer than 15 minutes—mine can’t for obvious reasons š So, if you want to … Continue reading
Audio Assignment #1: The Encounter
The encounter by jimgroom This is the 90 second sound effects story I made for the sound effects audio assignment for ds106. I followed Shayna Moreland’s and Ben Rimes’s lead and riffed on a Summer time theme, mine being a … Continue reading