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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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Everything Jim Groom touches is gold. He's like King Midas, but with the Internet.
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@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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UMW Blogs: Traffic over last 9 months
The tale of the tape, 1.6 million page views over the last nine moths, with over 600,000 visitors and 400,000 unique visits. I still don’t know how to parse this data effectively, but I agree with David Wiley that making … Continue reading
Back to the basics
I really was at least thinking about taking a hiatus from blogging last week, even though it was couched as a joke, but it’s clear that’s impossible for me right now—I like having this space of my own to mouth … Continue reading
Bava Manbaby
Mr. Charlie Rocket has been nothing but pure gold in the Digital Storytelling course I have been running this semester. His digital story consisted in a teaching himself Photoshop tricks and hacks, and relfecting and sharign the process, and the … Continue reading
Texas innovating with iPad: Introducing the iPaddle
While everyone has been waiting for the future to arrive thanks to the latest and greatest technology, Apple’s iPad, one school district in Temple, Texas, has decided to take the bull by the horns and create a cutting edge application … Continue reading
If I should stay, I would only be in your way….
Via Joey Baires.
Prof Hacker Hacked
I break my prolonged radio silence and come out of retirement to update you all on a pressing matter. You see, it looks like our friends over at Prof Hacker have been hacked. And in case the site disappears shortly … Continue reading
I’m done!
It seems like the internet refuses to realize that I made it. I have been a source of sweetness and light for the edtech blogosphere for almost four and a half years now, selflessly giving everything I have to anyone … Continue reading
The iPad: It’s all about the designer label
While smoking a cigarette on my back patio early this morning I got to thinking about the iPad (which I do not and will not own) and the cultural cache of designer clothing labels throughout my formative years in high … Continue reading
Education without School?
Leigh Blackall’s recent post about those systems that manage learning, links to a 1971 essay by Ivan Illich in The New York Review of Books titled “Education Without School: How It Can Be Done.” I’m reading more an more Illich … Continue reading