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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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-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
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-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: The Internet Course
The Internet Course on LSD
Last Wednesday while the Internet Course was sharing where we’re at with the timeline, one of UMW’s fine art professors, Carole Garmon, dropped by class and asked if she could stay. Why not? While we were talking about internet related events during … Continue reading
An Internet Timeline
We’re just starting week 3 of the 5 week summer iteration of the Internet Course. It’s been intense (a Repo Man’s life is always intense), but also awesome! Last week we collaboratively built the first of four projects this course … Continue reading
Like Punched Cards in the System
Tim Owens pointed me to the 1964 IBM promotional/instructional video “Once Upon a Punchcard”. It is yet another video in a growing collection of media resources for the Internet Course I’m teaching alongside Paul Bond this summer. This one is … Continue reading
Internet History: Watch the Movie
One of the things I am excited about this go around with the Internet Course are all the resources I’m finding thanks to awesome folks like Alan Levine and Micahel Berman. In the comments of my last post, Alan linked me … Continue reading
Computers before the Web
@jimgroom KIDS REACT TO OLD COMPUTERS: http://t.co/XnRsEVWPwa this is so funny, you’ll like it — Sebastiano (@SebaDT11) May 26, 2014 My brother-in-law sent me the above tweet this morning, knowing I’ve been ensconced in computer history the last few months. … Continue reading
You’ve Got the Network Inside Out
One of the anecdotes related in The Wizards that Stay Up Late that I love occurs during a meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1967. It was a meeting of all of ARPA‘s principal investigators intended to hash out the architecture of what … Continue reading
Alan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols
I have to thank Michael Berman for sharing a link in this comment to a 1987 video featuring Alan Kay discussing the history of computer interface design. It’s really an excellent history lesson in the development of human interfaces for computers. He … Continue reading
#tic104: Wrapping Week 1, Look Forward to Week 2
We covered a lot in class today, and that goes for week 1 more generally. I’ll be writing a separate post about our discussion of chapter 2 of Where the Wizards Stay Up Late, so this post will mainly be … Continue reading
Computer Networks – The Heralds Of Resource Sharing (Arpanet, 1972)
While writing my last post about today’s discussion in the Internet Course, I stumbled upon this 1972 gem of a documentary by Steven King (not that Steven King) about the formation of ARPANET. It’s 30 minutes long and features many of the minds behind … Continue reading
From Command and Control to IPTO
In the Internet Course today we reviewed the students’ research thus far, and things are looking pretty impressive according to the submission form with the articles they found. I’ve even spotted the first article summary, sharing Leo Beranek’s personal history about … Continue reading