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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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Tag Archives: bava-o-rama
Ooh Blogging is a Place on Earth
With all apologies to Belinda Carlisle, what if blogging, not love, were a place on Earth? That’s what hit me as an idea for a presentation at the Irish Learning Technology Association’s annual EdTech conference in early June while walking … Continue reading
We’re not computers, Sebastian, we’re physical
I guess it makes sense to start a conference about blogging with a blog post about blogging—hello you beautiful Reclaim Open 25 folks! Let’s face it, blogging is a blogger’s favorite topic, right? And these days I’ve been thinking about what it means for blogging to transmogrify (it’s Halloween season, after all) into something else. Continue reading
Art Therapy, Bava-O-Rama, and Blogging about Blogging
I’ve been pretty busy as of late, even if the blog doesn’t fully tell the tale of the tape. In fact, it’s been hard for me to keep up. Here’s a quick tally of all my blogging debts: I’m almost … Continue reading
Creepshow Beach Show
A few weeks ago I got a comment on a video I uploaded featuring elements of the Creepshow diorama I was working on for bavastudio. It was a solid piece of outreach for a coming event, to be sure, but … Continue reading
A Deadzone Diorama
Over the last 10+ years Stephen King has not only proven to be one of the more prescient literary figures, but also the coolest. He’s been on social media talking smack on the shitstorm that is American politics for the … Continue reading
Bavastudio One Year Later
I just realized that one year ago yesterday I moved into bava.studio, beginning an odyssey of fits and starts over the last 12 months. As might be expected, I have blogged the process pretty thoroughly. It’s hard to express how … Continue reading
Something to Tide You Over
I’ve been making some progress collecting the various elements needed for the Creepshow (1982) episode “Something to Tide You Over” diorama. This will be the first diorama in the bavastudio space, and I’m pretty excited. I guess the first thing … Continue reading
bava-o-rama
I’m starting to get deeper into designing the space for bavastudio, which feels very good. The centerpiece of this space is going to be the street window that will feature a diorama that provides a tableau of different 80s movies. … Continue reading
