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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.
-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
BlackBoard: A Conversation Killer
As a great post by Bryan Alexander recently pointed out -how can you trace links to your site from others within BlackBoard so that the conversation can continue? Answer: You can’t, silly rabbit! After reading Bryan’s post, I tried a … Continue reading
On the Nature of Power
If you haven’t yet, but I know you have, read Brian Lamb’s fantastic treatise on the nature of power RIGHT NOW! This may very well be the funniest thing that I have read in a long time. Link.
Stumble Upon
A very fun application I have found myself using often over the last couple of days is Stumble Upon. The premise is pretty simple, join up for free, click a few categories you are interested in, and download a toolbar … Continue reading
Heading to sunny Portland, OR
That’s right, the family and I are heading to the left coast today to catch up with friends then I am off to Victoria, B.C. for a seminar on the New Web for Museums with Jim Spadacinni. Taking a quick … Continue reading
Doing things with bbpress
I saw the most recent announcement from WordPress this morning regarding the latest, stable version of WPMU (ver. 1.0 -a milestone) and the integration of a phpbb forum with WordPress, known as bbpress. Both of these developments are really exciting … Continue reading
The Yahoo Time Capsule
Upon signing out of Fickr after uploading some images, I was presented with an advertisement for something called the Yahoo Time Capsule. See the ad below: My interest was piqued by the “Smithsonian Folkways Recordings” link as well as the … Continue reading
It’s a girl …
Living proof that bavatuesdays doesn’t just wax poetic about WordPress. As Rutger Hauer says in Blade Runner: “We’re not computers, Sebastian -we’re physical!”
Flickr Set Slideshow, featuring the Red Scare!
For a while now I have longingly watched Darcy Norman include Flickr sets in his blog posts. My urge to finally scratch this itch was further prompted by the fact that I recently bucked-up and became a proud Flickr Pro … Continue reading
IMing with my Tech Muse, or Blue Skying Course Managment Alternatives
If there is any one person directly responsible for my current state of exile in instructional technology nirvana at UMW, it may very well be Zach Davis. A few years back, circa 2003, he was talking to me about how … Continue reading
Creating Custom Categories for WordPress using K2
One of the things we have been experimenting with here at UMW is creating custom categories for a WordPress installation that will allow us to track students and/or groups quickly and easily in the sidebar. The NIAHD Journals gave me … Continue reading