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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: WordPress
Getting My Moose On: Blogs as a Web Publishing Framework
OK, so I am gonna have to earn my keep during my stay up North, for the folks of Northern Voice have been nothing but golden thus far. In particular, I want to give a gigantic shout out to Brian … Continue reading
WPMU Hacks for BDP RSS, Optimal, & YouTube
In my previous post I failed to detail how I hacked WPMU in order to include BDP RSS & Optimal in a static page and embed YouTube videos in posts. Sorry for this oversight, below you will find the play-by-play … Continue reading
One Tool to Rule them All: the BLOG!
I was listening to Darcy Norman on PSU’s ETS Talk 16 (props to Cole Camplese and company), and something he said really struck home with me. To very loosely paraphrase Darcy: ed tech folks need to concentrate on providing concrete … Continue reading
Simile Timeline WordPress Plugin
You may have been experiencing some strangely empty rss feeds from bavatuesdays, but all in the name of progress! Check out the latest, a WordPress plugin using MIT’s Simile timeline for your blog posts. See a quasi-working example for bavatuesdays … Continue reading
wordTube: I know you know
I am beside myself with glee, this is the second coming of all video plugins for WordPress. I can’t even begin to describe its genius. In a sentence, it builds in a rudimentary digital asset management system for mp3 and … Continue reading
WordPress 2.1 and K2 0.95
WordPress 2.1 and K2 version 0.95 are on the shelves. In WordPress 2.1 I really like the fact that comments has its own tab and you can batch delete links, finally! My favorite, however, is the following feature for it … Continue reading
How accessible is your campus CMS?
This is the first of a series of posts through which I will attempt to catch up on ELI 2007. Mark Felix (Instructional Applications Support, The University of Arizona), Alan Foley (Learning Technology Liaison, University of Wisconsin System Administration) and … Continue reading
Pasting a Word Document into WordPress
Over the past two semesters I have gotten a bunch of complaints about the crazy formatting that results when pasting a MS Word document into the WordPress visual rich text editor. Well, those days are over thanks to Peter Baumgartner’s … Continue reading
A Few Customizing Tips for K2
The semester is coming, so here’s a little something to keep you going… Including a Custom Header Image in K2: To include a custom header in K2 you have two options. You can use the custom header tool in the … Continue reading
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Seems like the Cog Dog and teachinghacks.com having been doing a little sharing about their WordPress plugins, which I find extremely useful -so thanks. I have been talking a bit lately about some of the plugins I have recently discovered … Continue reading