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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: Reclaim Edtech
A Very Woolful Ghost
It’s container month at Reclaim Edtech, so I’ve been pushing myself to revisit todo list items that might give me a reason to play with containers, and lo and behold I found another Ghost. This time it was a project … Continue reading
Swiffer, Gravity Forms, and Toolkits for User Innovation
I have been moving some stuff around in my basement in preparation for the container (an actual 40′ shipping container, not a Docker one) to land on Italian shores from the US. It will be the first time in almost … Continue reading
Communication, Community, and Commitment
Our focus at Reclaim Hosting throughout 2022 has been all about increased communication. And while I’ve mentioned this before on the bava, the Reclaim Roundup has in many ways been central to this push. It seems prosaic and not all … Continue reading
Installing BookStack on Reclaim Cloud
It’s officially Container Month at Reclaim Edtech, so I wanted to get in the spirit and record a quick howto stream for installing BookStack on Reclaim Cloud. But first, what the hell is BookStack? BookStack is a lightweight, open source … Continue reading
bavaLibrary Progress: a Form of Awesome Production
As we wrap-up Reclaim Edtech’s Form of Awesome flex course today, I’m happy to report significant progress was made wrapping my head around the workings of Gravity Forms. Major kudos to Tom Woodward, who not only shared is wealth of … Continue reading
Form of an Awesome VHS Catalog Entry for The Shining
After yesterday’s Gravity Forms session led by Tom Woodward for Reclaim Edtech’s June Flex Course things started to click for me. I am starting to wrap my head around the basics of Gravity Forms. As mentioned in my last post … Continue reading
Week 1: Form of an Awesome Personal Media Catalog
I spent the morning playing with Gravity Forms to figure out how to create a form to start cataloging my personal media collection. I can now understand why folks get addicted to creating forms for everything, once you can a … Continue reading
A Bird’s-Eye View of Gravity Forms
In 2012 (more than 10 years ago!) I wrote a post about how Cathy Derecki‘s vision for transitioning the Faculty Notes newsletter, Eagle Eye, from a bi-annual print publication to a website and weekly email. We worked on that starting … Continue reading
The bava Library
I mean Chump’s getting one, right? What are they going to stock the shelves with, gold-plated nudie mags? I’ve been thinking a bit about what I want to try and build as part of Tom Woodward‘s Form of Awesome Flex … Continue reading
Form of a Blog Post about ds106, RSS, and more
I am getting ready to map out my goals for this month’s Reclaim EdTech’s Flex Course on Gravity Forms, and after reading Tom Woodward’s post about using Gravity Forms to pull RSS feeds into FeedWordPress I was reminded how much … Continue reading