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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: UMW Blogs
Multimedia Projects: A Blog/Wiki Mashup
This semester professor Mara Scanlon and I decided at the very last minute to experiment a bit with the multimedia projects she had assigned the students in her Contemporary Poetry and Asian American Literature courses. Here is the multimedia project … Continue reading
UMW Blogs in Berlin?
That’s right sports fans, UMW Blogs is now an international teaching tool. UMW professor James Harding of the English, Linguistics, and Communication department has been running two course blogs for classes he is teaching this semester at the Freie Universität … Continue reading
Distance Learning at UMW
A really dedicated and enthusiastic group of students in Michael McCarthy’s News Gathering course put together one hell of a resource on the state of distance learning and UMW and beyond. Kudos to Emily Montgomery, Sarah C. Smith and David … Continue reading
The Music of Beah
Mara Scanlon’s Ethics and Lit freshman seminar has just read Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, a memoir chronicling his story of being a 12 year old soldier/murderer in Sierra Leone. A particularly cold-blooded look … Continue reading
UMW Blogs Upgraded to WP 3.0 (a play-by-play)
I’m glad (and relieved) to finally say UMW Blogs has been upgraded to the WP 3.0 merged core files without a hitch. Whew! This was a burner for me, a bit more fear and trembling going into this one than … Continue reading
“Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there”
My recent feature post on UMW Blogs. What is quickly apparent is that what’s happening on UMW Blogs is continuing to cross pollinate in the community. And the quote from Thomas Fuller (which I have made the title of this … Continue reading
Psychology, Brain Trauma, and Phineas Gage
Professor Mindy Erchull’s Psychology 100 course is covering everything from brain trauma to memory to Freud in their blog posts. And the range of reflections and incorporation of the ubiquity of psychology in popular culture makes for a fascinating and … Continue reading
20 Examples from UMW Blogs (Part 2)
Go here to see part one of this series. Jesse Fillerup’s Fredericskburg’s Musician Marketplace This course blog for the History of American Music experiments on several levels, and I think it hearkens back to an off-handed comment Brian Lamb made … Continue reading
20 Examples from UMW Blogs (Part 1)
Mike Bogle sent a tweet last week asking for some examples of educational blogging on UMW Blogs. I didn’t respond, and he probably thought I was ignoring him, but the bava never ignores, rather it absorbs. And given that one … Continue reading
UMW Study Abroad Blogs: A Case Study in Aggregated Self Service
Remember when the gas pumps moved from attended to self service? Well, if you’re not from dirty Jersey and you happen to be old enough you might remember this transition, and for me it was a special one. I always … Continue reading