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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.
I am Jim Groom
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Category Archives: Uncategorized
The plumber is in …
I’m here to unclog your internet tubes. Image care of Michael Heilemann’s flickr account, one of the great minds behind K2.
Introducing bavawiki …
Jerry and I have been discussing how useful a centralized wiki would be for collaboratively tracking and editing documentation for web 2.0 applications we have been using frequently over the last couple of weeks. To that end I am introducing … Continue reading
NIAHD Journals
While doing research for resources on Slave housing in the South, I serendipitously came across an interesting project at the National Institute of American History and Democracy. NIAHD is a joint venture between the College of William and Mary and … Continue reading
A WordPress.com Wikified Tutorial …
… because I am so damn good. Feel free to edit it! Link.
Firefox is the only web browser, period
Well, it is not like I didn’t know this fact already, but I have been so spoiled in my enjoyment of a bug free web experience over the past year that sometimes I simply forget. Recently, however, I have been … Continue reading
Hacking an Open Source Virtual Learning Space (Part 2)
Upon completing part 1 of this serialized tutorial you should have the shell of your virtual learning space framed out. Now we want to start adding other open source tools that may be helpful. After WordPress, the next install for … Continue reading
Hacking an Open Source Virtual Learning Space (Part 1)
So you wanna make an online course site that is open, conversational, multimedia ready, and more conducive to an engaging and dynamic online learning environment? Well, you came to the right blog at the right time because as the monolithic … Continue reading
Netflix Plugin for WordPress, or did I ever tell you I love WordPress?
I guess it has been a long time coming and a long time here, but I just had to blog about it once I finally got it up and running. Thanks for the plugin Albert Banks.
Your Mother’s Industrial Music
Regular WFMU listeners will be no doubt familiar with the concept of “industrial musicals”, where a company promotes themselves or their products with a single, a full album, or in extreme cases a full-blown musical production. The album Product Music: … Continue reading
The Lost Beatles Film, or ExtremeVideo 2.0 for WordPress
Update: The ExtremeVideo 2.o plugin has gone the way of the DoDo Bird, use Anarchy Media Player or Viper’s Video Quicktags. I am sure this is old hat for many of you, but I just found an all-in-one video plugin … Continue reading