Watch the bava blog trailer!
about
is an ongoing conversation about media of all kinds ...
Testimonials:
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.
I am Jim Groom
Find out more about me here.
Recent comments
- Is it bavatube or bava.tv? | bavatuesdays on YouTube, Copyright, and the ongoing Claims on our Culture
- Reverend on Can we talking about blogging?
- Kin Lane on Can we talking about blogging?
- Family Pictures Podcast takes on 400 Blows | bavatuesdays on 400 Blows
- Family Pictures Podcast takes on 400 Blows | bavatuesdays on Summer of Love: The 400 Blows
- Reverend on Is it bavatube or bava.tv?
- Reverend on Can we talking about blogging?
- Brian on Can we talking about blogging?
- Audrey on Can we talking about blogging?
- Brian on Can we talking about blogging?
- Sarah Honeychurch on Can we talking about blogging?
- Can we talking about blogging? | bavatuesdays on Bloggers Anonymous
- Andy Rush on Is it bavatube or bava.tv?
- Catherine Cronin on Euology
- Catherine Cronin on Euology
-
Recent Posts
browse the bavarchive
Contributors
some favorites
- Alan Levine
- Andy Rush
- Audrey Watters
- bava.social
- Bonnie Stewart
- Brian Lamb
- Bryan Alexander
- Chris Lott
- Clint LaLonde
- Cole Camplese
- Darcy Norman
- David Kernohan
- David Wiley
- Gardner Campbell
- GNA Garcia
- Grant Potter
- Jeffrey Keefer
- Jon Beasley-Murray
- Jon Udell
- Kate Bowles
- Kin Lane
- Laura Blankenship
- Leslie Madsen-Brooks
- Lisa M Lane
- Martha Burtis
- Martin Hawksey
- Martin Weller
- Mike Caulfield
- Mikhail Gershovich
- Mountebank
- Paul Bond
- Scott Leslie
- Serena Epstein
- Shannon Hauser
- Stephen Downes
- The OLDaily
- Tim Owens
- Tom Woodward
- Tony Hirst
Category Archives: UMW Blogs
Civil Rights Leader James Farmer’s UMW Lectures Online
More than five years ago I started working with UMW’s archivist Carolyn Parsons to try and digitize James Farmer’s video lecture series recorded here at UWM in 1983. The lecture series was pretty awesome, and it basically revolved around James … Continue reading
Innovation as a Communal Act
One of the things I’ve been wrestling with since ds106 went open and online back in Spring 2011 is how to represent innovation as a communal, rather than an individual, phenomenon. And this topic seems particularly relevant now that I … Continue reading
I Fracking Love UMW Blogs
It’s been a wild couple of years with ds106, and I love that little bastard. But sometimes too much fond affection on the baby blinds you to the maturing of your other kids, namely umwblogs. That environment is now 5 … Continue reading
Cellular Storytelling
UMW Biology professor Steve Gallik has dreamed up a very cool approach for students in his Histology lab to share and comment on what’s under the microscope. Rather than purchasing expensive camera-ready digital microscopes, he worked with the UMW Teaching Center … Continue reading
A Bird’s-Eye View of UMW
A year and a half ago Cathy Derecki and I sat down to talk about possibilities for taking the semi-annual “Faculty Notes”—UMW’s print-version of what faculty have been doing professionally—online. The idea we came up with was to make an … Continue reading
Behind Every EDUPUNK is a Miserable Sysadmin
I’m not sure the title of the post is exactly what Zach Davis said back in October of last year at the OpenEd conference, but I think Brian Lamb can confirm it’s pretty close in spirit. Zach Davis and Lucas … Continue reading
UMW Cited as Model for Future of Networked Learning
Seems like UMW, and UMW Blogs in particular, is being heralded in Richard Demillo’s new book Abelard to Apple: The Fate of American Colleges and Universities as a space of “great educational ferment,” to quote from George Leef’s review of … Continue reading
UMW Blogs: A 2011 Snapshot
Here are the number for UMW Blogs for all of 2011. 1,530,580 Visits 1,049,706 Unique Visitors 3,417,021 Pageviews 2.23 Pages/Visit 00:01:48 Avg. Time on Site The stats never cease to mesmerize me, even though they are plateauing. But if you stop for a second and … Continue reading
Traffic on UMW Blogs and a few notes
Yesterday was the last day of the Fall semester so I took a quick screenshot of traffic on UMW Blogs in Google Analytics over the last four months, which looks like this: Which made me think, how does this compare … Continue reading
Literary Journals class at UMW
The literary journals class has ben running at UMW since Spring 2007, and I’ve written about this course a couple of times before. The course was initially designed by Claudia Emerson, and the idea was to have the students break … Continue reading