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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.
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Everything Jim Groom touches is gold. He's like King Midas, but with the Internet.
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“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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Category Archives: Domain of One’s Own
How the Web was Ghettoized for Teaching and Learning in Higher Ed?
Short answer: learning management systems. The above title was something I tweeted out last night when I finsihed the presentation I delivered yesterday at the Digital Media Learning 2014 conference. Maybe title of 15 minute presentation tomorrow should be “How … Continue reading
UMW Domains-Now with More Community!
Domain of One’s Own has been an unqualified success, and Martha’s post on this project provides a nice summary of where we are at six months in. We’re on track to have more than 700 folks in the UMW community with … Continue reading
Domains in the Afterglow
Below is an abstract of the presentation I’ll be giving at Emory Unviersity as part of the Domain Incubator event this Friday (Valentine’s Day!) Baruch College at the end of March. I came up with it a couple of week’s … Continue reading
Going Online
My oldest son, Miles, brought home this “Going Online” worksheet last night. I’m not entirely sure where to start on this worksheet, but the sixth question does sadden me a bit—bloggers still get no love. I had to break it to … Continue reading
What Richard Scarry has to Teach Us About Domains
We’ve been rolling out Domain of One’s Own this year at UMW, which means DTLT has been busy introducing it to faculty and students. I’ve been working on an anology over the last few months (I’m not sure it reaches the … Continue reading
Master of My Domain
We are going full throttle at UMW with Domain of One’s Own, so it’s time to bust out the t-shirt! Mary Kayler got me this gem for Christmas, and I am wearing it with pride today! We have nearly 600 … Continue reading
Rainbow Dash on UMW Domains
I have another post I’ll be writing about this week in The Internet Course, but one of the gems early on has been finally getting to meet and work with Amber May given she’s in the course. I’ve known Amber’s work … Continue reading
UMW Domains goes Back to School
Kim Jaxon and Patrick Berry had a compelling conversation as part of their most recent Back to School podcast about the fact that more and more faculty and students want alternatives to the centralized, campus-supported learning management system. The larger … Continue reading
Talking Domains at DML2014
Below is a four minute video clip for the upcoming Digital Media & Learning Conference, “Connecting Practices.” The conference is in Boston from March 6-8, and I’ll be part of a featured panel alongside the great Jonathan Worth, of Phonar … Continue reading
