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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: Uncategorized
Not Your Grandpa’s Blog
Yesterday I had a blast co-presenting with Alan Levine and Cole Camplese on re-thinking the blog as a creative engine that kind of pushes the way we conceptualize the idea of the blog. Here is a link to the presentation … Continue reading
Credentials, please.
Yesterday, Laura Blankenhip hosted a really fun podcast that I was fortunate enough to be a part of, along with Randy Thornton and Barbara Ganley. The discussion starts out talking about questions surrounding credentialing in higher ed, but soon becomes … Continue reading
I’m a ridiculous man
From the opening passage of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man”: I’m a ridiculous man. Now they call me a madman. That would be a promotion if I weren’t as ridiculous as before in their eyes. But it … Continue reading
EDUCAUSE’s Top 5 Teaching and Learning Challenges
EDUCAUSE has created a list of top 5 teaching and learning challenges for 2009. This list caught my eye because I think all of these issues have been dealt with rather intelligently at UMW, so I’m gonna annotate this list … Continue reading
We Edit Life
The other day I came across a video by People like Us (a.k.a. Vicki Bennett) on Ubuweb, specifically the collage video she put together from found footage at the Prelinger Archive called Remote Controller (2003). It comes highly recommended, and … Continue reading
Get a real job, hippies!
Image credit: Hippies de Valdivia (Chile) by leo.prie.to Tired of singing the same old song about teaching, learning, and technology to an apathetic audience? Want to liberate yourself from those degrading improv gigs in the campus commons to anyone who … Continue reading
“A Little Fable” by Franz Kafka
‘Alas,’ said the mouse, ‘the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the … Continue reading
YuleTube
Looking for classic Christmas television? Kliph Nesteroff’s Classic Showbiz Television blog may be the best online filters for television on the web. He seems to tirelessly comb social video sites for archival classics that suggest an insane—almost encyclopedic knowledge—of the … Continue reading
WPMu Theme Editor Easter Egg
Update: Fail! I’m wrong yet again, damn it. Donncha replied to this post on my UMW Blogs here, basically saying he had nothing to do with it: Not my doing. That’s just the normal WP easter egg. Dunno how that … Continue reading
WPMu 2.7 before its time
I have upgraded the bava (and my several other sites running on this installation) to the trunk version of WordPress Multi-User 2.7 well before its natural time. I know the risks involved, but everything is neatly backed up and I … Continue reading