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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.
-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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Category Archives: ds10699
The ds106 99: #14 Some Kind of Wonderful
I figured while it was fresh in my mind from my last post on the Valley Girl soundtrack show for ds106radio that I would upload my earlier soundtrack show—February 19th to be exact—on one of my favorite films of the 80s: … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #13 Valley Girl
Taking a page from Guilia Forsythe’s blog, I figured I’d use the ds106 99 to start archiving a number of radio shows I did over the last couple of months. I literally have gigs and gigs of broadcasts in my … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #12 Vidding
I’m currently preparing the next and final creative assignment on fan labor for the penultimate week of ds106 (there will still be an archiving and reflection assignment for the final week). One of the fan labor communities that I think … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #11 Managing Media in AutoDJ
This weekend I did something I should have figured out long ago, I actually took the time to understand how you update the Media Folder and how to both create and add various mp3 files to a specific playlist in … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #10 bavatuesdays…the movie
ds106 internaut Elizabeth Castillo recently came up with a Design Assignment I just couldn’t resist: “Create a movie poster for your website.” I kind of think of my blog as inspired by movies, so this assignment immediately appealed to me, … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #9 A new ds106radio show?
While looking for ripped vinyl to upload to ds106radio this weekend as Jason Toal and Grant Potter broadcasted there awesome adventures around Vancouver on Record Store Day 2011 I was trying to refresh ds106radio’s AutoDJ with some vinyl rips. I’m … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #8 Mayday, mayday. Can anyone hear me?
I am currently working on printing out a poster version of D’Arcy Norman’s minimalist travel poster for John Carpenter’s The Thing featuring Station 31 (see the assignment here). It’s just that good, one of my favorite movies of all time … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #7 This is your brain on ds106
Inspired by Andrew Allingham’s rather bizzarre “Eggsistential Drug PSA”…. I was inspired to play off his idea for my own mashup/remix/fanfiction/ds106commerical. So, thank you Andrew, and I hope you all enjoy “This is your brain on ds106” —please don’t try … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #6 Jessica Masulli on ds106tv
Last week I interviewed ds106 student, and soon-to-be UMW graduate, Jessica Masulli about the journalism job she recently got, the test on twitter she had to take for that job, and a more general discussion about digital identity, journalism, and … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #5 Bryan Alexander on ds106tv
Last week it just so happened that Bryan Alexander was on UMW’s campus for the blink of an eye, and in that time we were able to lure him to the DTLT offices for a quick 20 minute ds106tv interview … Continue reading