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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: video
Russian Agit-Pop video via WFMU (is there any better blog going?)
Russian Agit-Pop Video by Lyapis Trubetskoy from WFMU’s Beware of the Blog by Station Manager Ken Sucker that I am for propaganda imagery, I couldn’t resist this video by the Belarus band Lyapis Trubetskoy for their song “Kapital.” Click the … Continue reading
Grandma-ster Flash
Grandma Mashup -you won’t regret it! Via WFMU’s Beware the Blog which, in turn, found it via Monkeys for Helping.
David Lynch’s Creepy Public Service Announcement
[youtube]ZSWv90msTUc[/youtube] Because I am overloading on video these days, here’s another one for y’all! Sorry, I just can’t stop myself! Via WFMU (link).
“YouTube Depends on Us”
That is what Michael Frackas, general counsel for Viacom, asserts in his opinion piece in The Washington Post. Here is a brief summary of the article via Slashdot: Fricklas asserts that the DMCA’s ‘safe harbor’ provisions don’t apply because YouTube … Continue reading
Education: The Video
Update: If I wasn’t so self-absorbed, I would have realized much sooner that Andy Rush, our resident multi-media god, has already built UMWTube, something quite similar to a YouTube inspired Drupal site but framed out using Ning. So there is … Continue reading
More on Mojiti
I really like Mojiti! Did I already say this? I just realized -it was rather self-evident- that you can add spots to a ‘Mojitied’ video right within a blog post. And while you have to be logged on to Mojiti’s … Continue reading
Francis Ford Coppola Predicts YouTube
Riffing on the NMC Web Convergence Conference themes and cross-currents -check out this forty second interview with Francis Ford Coppola from Hearts of Darkness. In this clip he might be seen as “predicting” the creative power of social sites like … Continue reading
Web 2.0 Online Learning Festival
T -48 minutes to the Web 2.0 Online Learning Festival for the NMC Online Conference on the Convergence of Web Culture and Video. I am all fired up, and here is the link to the wiki, half fully-baked, but an … Continue reading
Mojiti Crack Spider Test
Just a Mojiti test for my favorite video. Feel free to add your comments to this video here. I am pretty impressed with how quick and easy Mojiti is to use -and it obviously imports to WordPress well. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc[/youtube]
Now soliciting submissions for an online video dance learning party
Shama lama ding dong! That’s right folks, teaching and learning technologies have never been so much fun. Brian Lamb, D’Arcy Norman, Gardner Campbell, and I have joined forces to offer a little “twist” on the standard presentation for the NMC’s … Continue reading