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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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Category Archives: fun
Would You Submit This Promotion Letter?
Update: Had to change title from tenure to promotion because it was not that but this 🙂 Almost two years ago Mara Scanlon asked me to write a promotion letter in support of her application for full professor here at … Continue reading
Old School Open
I am fascinated by the idea of Virginia public colleges and universities sharing resources using something as new fangled as the world wide web. And come to find out there is even a precedent! Syllabus for a Commonwealth Version of … Continue reading
The Lego Wire
This is pretty awesome if you are a The Wire fan. Thanks Mikhail and Luke!
A Halcyon Time
This Doctor Doom clipping worked for me. There is something moving about him trying to put the pieces of who he once was back together. Now that’s deep. At one point I knew where I got this from, but that’s … Continue reading
The bava has jumped the shark
I never even thought about where the phrase “jumped the shark” came from until I saw Mikhail Gershovich’s awesome animated GIF of Fonzie literally jumping the shark in a Happy Days episode. What an awesome animated GIF!
Miles Takes City Hall
Out of the blue last week a librarian at the Central Rappahannock Regional Library called Anto and I asking if we’d let our son Miles speak to the Fredericksburg City Council about the benefits of their continued support of the … Continue reading
My Dancing Miles
We had a great weekend: a little brick patio removal and dirt shifting in preparation of Faculty Academy (thanks Tim and Alan!) followed by the UMW Multicultural Fair with the family. And the all the while the Spring weather here … Continue reading
The Digital Legacy of the 1980s: Super Mario Bros.
My kids and I explore movies and series on Netflix to watch on a somewhat regular basis. And while I’ve been underwhelmed by their live streaming library as of late like everyone else,  we recently stumbled upon The Super Mario Bros. … Continue reading
Signs of C.H.U.D.
Yet another animated GIF, this one is for Dr. Garcia given she shares with me an unhealthy attachment to bad 80s films. This one features a clip from the opening of the subterranean classic cult horror film C.H.U.D. (1985).
Thingu
The great Martin Weller passed on this brilliant re-telling of John Carpenter’s The Thing using Pingu’s stop-motion animation as the medium muse. The special effects as seen through claymation are brilliant. Martin and I share The Thing as our favorite … Continue reading