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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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Next Generation Sandbox
I sat through a webinar this afternoon—it’s actually yesterday now—about Amazon Web Services (AWS) for education. Tim Owens and Ryan Brazell were there as well, but it seemed like this stuff was old hat to them. On the other hand, … Continue reading
“I Confess” and “Torn Curtain”
Antonella and I watched Alfred Hitchcock’s I Confess (1953) the other night, and I was a bit disappointed. That’s rarely the case with a Hitchcock film, but I couldn’t help feeling the story was stilted and Montgomery Clift couldn’t get into anything … Continue reading
Cyborg Tactic
This post has been updated with two amazing animated GIFs by the ever brilliant Michael Branson Smith. “The main trouble with cyborgs” she [Donna Haraway] reminds us, ”is that they are the illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism, not … Continue reading
Post-Conference Sloan-C Interview
On Wednesday I had a discussion with Sandra Coswatte, Cathy Arreguin, Zeren Eder, and Holly Rae Bemis-Schurtz of Sloan-C about the presentation I gave at et4online conference . The interview covers a brief history of my beginnings in the field of edtech—which centers around having gotten a domain and web hosting … Continue reading
Moneyball
I saw this tweet by Brian Lamb yesterday: Some useful articles, but why oh why do the Guardian and the smart people writing here call it “Extreme Learning”? http://t.co/XOwTokQVy9 — Brian Lamb (@brlamb) March 26, 2014 And I followed the … Continue reading
Archie, Veronica, and Other Old Gold Technologies
I’ve been having a lot of fun recently exploring old school technologies as part of The Internet Course I’m teaching alongside Paul Bond. Paul wrote an awesome post a couple of days ago investigating the file-sharing protocol Gopher. I’ve been doing … Continue reading
Fredx Coder Dojo
Yesterday, Tess, Miles, and I went to a free, three-hour event offered by the FredX Coder Dojo. The dojo seems to be born out of—or at least in the spirit of—the maker culture work George Meadows and Tim Owens have … Continue reading
Feeding Reddit
Following up on my last post, I actually was able to syndicate all the Reddit threads I have upvoted into a subsite of bavatuesdays: reddit.bavatuedays.com. I haven’t upvoted any comments just yet, so we’ll see if they come along as … Continue reading
No Predictions or Wrap-Ups, Just Nostalgia
With the end of another year quickly approaching, I must acknowledge I’m never good for predictions, resolutions, or year-end wrap-ups. In part because I am myopic, lazy, and disorganized, but also because that’s really not what this blog is about. … Continue reading
Developing Story: ds106 Explained!
One of the most difficult things about ds106 is talking about it to someone who hasn’t experienced it. And that’s not because it is some insider “you had to be there” mentality, but beause it is multifarious and protean. It … Continue reading