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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
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-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
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-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
Playing with the AVerMedia Live Gamer Portable
During lockdown Tim sent me a care package from the US with some goodies for my various streaming projects. Such as trying to get my Commodore 128 and/or RetroPie to stream through OBS cleanly. Lockdown was lifted in Italy in … Continue reading
Live from Jacksonville
If you are thinking about a fairly cheap “TV” studio for your edtech team (or similar group) there are some real good nuggets here. @rushaw brought his A-game https://t.co/lmxw6CDc06 — Jim Groom (@jimgroom) September 2, 2020 For the 19th episode … Continue reading
TommasoTV: Pong Hits
Tommy and I re-united for our second episode of TommasoTV. I’m always looking for an excuse to stream these days, and Tommy is always ready to share what he’s been developing, so we make a good pair. This episode covers … Continue reading
KaraOERoke ALT Summer Summit Post-Mortem
Back by popular demand, #karaOERoke for the #altcSummit Tune in to https://t.co/GzpExUSYeE at 8PM BST tonight to catch your favorite edtechs crooning and looning. Details for joining room are on the social program, and we hope to see you there! … Continue reading
Drolomite!
A couple of years back I had the idea of getting a drone to take along with me on some of the hikes I’ve done in the Italian Alps. Almost exactly a year ago I did an epic hike through … Continue reading
Summer Summit 2020 KaraOERke Setup Update
I wrote about my KaraOERke setup a couple of days ago, but after some testing with my co-hosts Chahira and Tim I need to make some updates to my original setup. Seems like Zoom wins over Jitsi for video conferencing … Continue reading
KaraOERke Summer Summit 2020
As an update, turns out Zoom will work better than Jitsi in this instance, and I explain why in this follow-up post here. I spent a bit of time this afternoon getting my rig setup for the KaraOERke event that … Continue reading
Jitsi on Reclaim Cloud
Zoom’s privacy record has been spotty at best for a while now, but recent news pointing to their shutting down activist’s accounts at the behest of the Chinese government is yet another reason to think twice before using that video … Continue reading
Reclaim Today: Tape Action Outside!
Last night I finally got back on the Reclaim Today train. The show has been on hiatus during September given the new semester was in full swing, but Reclaim Hosting is starting to come up for air and we all … Continue reading
Samson Would Have Laughed
Over a week ago Adam Croom reached out to Tim and I to help him make a game for Keegan Long-Wheeler, who is presently convalescing from brain surgery. We were asked to create a short video of us responding to … Continue reading