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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: video
Stuart Hall on YouTube
Did you know this amazing talk by Stuart Hall is freely available on YouTube? My class is quickly changing before my eyes thanks to this amazing resource. Below is a lecture by Hall on media and representation -ever more relevant … Continue reading
Disney Mashup Explains Copyright
Pretty remarkable explanation of copyright laws using bits and pieces of a wide range of Disney animated cartoons. A lot of fun! Eric Fadden, a professor at Bucknell University, is responsible for this Fair(y) Use Tale.
Playing with Pligg
I installed the digg-clone Pligg on my bluehost account here, and all’s well so far. The install is very straight forward: create a mysql database, change some folder/file permissions, and click on /install.php. It has a few out-of-the-box module/plugins like … Continue reading
Slavoj Zizek on The Children of Men
Here’s a five minute commentary on Children of Men by Slavoj Zizek that is packaged with the DVD. I watched this movie for a second time tonight and I was even more enthralled and impressed than the first go around … Continue reading
A Tale of the Tape: Videosift as told by my del.icio.us
Videosift is a digglike video site powered by the open source digg-clone pligg (we’re gonna have to play a bit more with this one!). Pretty self explanatory, but a couple of things come to mind: Web 2.0 Online Educational Film … Continue reading
Do the Right Thing… Ernie
Searching for the opening credits for Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing (the “Fight the Power” sequence with Rosie Perez), I stumbled upon a different kind of gem in the vein of some interesting videos Bryan Alexander has been posting … Continue reading
8-Minute Abs
One of the few things I have been unable to share on my blog is my daily work-out regiment. Not so much because I am shy or embarrassed about it, rather until now I haven’t had an effective way to … Continue reading
Citizentube
[youtube]RGKF2BZLdFY[/youtube] YouTube has recently introduced citizentube. This channel kind of reminds me of Jon Udell’s post about recording local politics and making it widely available for a more nuanced look at a candidate’s stance on a wide range of issues. … Continue reading
Newt-jiti!
Looking for the perfect opportunity to try out Mojiti? Well, Newt Gingrich, after his inflammatory remarks about Spanish as the language of the ghetto, released a video apologia -in Spanish- on YouTube (thanks Jerry!). So, why not take this opportunity … Continue reading