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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
Virtual Language Studies: A Brief Technical Overview (pt 1)
I have been working for the last nine months or so on a project that is attempting to re-think language studies using a fully online model. It is know as the Virtual Language Studies project being run out of Drake … Continue reading → Continue reading
Cane di bava
Because the bava family are gluttons for punishment, we are thinking about getting a dog. It’s huge for me ’cause I haven’t had a dog since growing up on Long Island with our family dog Thurman—named after the late, great … Continue reading
The news of my death has been beautifully mashed up
Nothing like watching your own eulogy, I guess I really should pay Serena the 100 bucks I owe her 🙂
The bava clip show
Martin Weller will be happy to know I am officially seeking therapy after watching the bava clipshow he put together over on The Ed Techie. What can I say? I mean this video is not only a Jim Groom film … Continue reading
The 1,000th Post on the bava
Here’s the tale of the tape: That little snapshot with numbers, percentages, and figures can’t begin to suggest how both liberating and tormenting this space has been for me. Not sure I have 1,000 more in me, but there is … Continue reading
Citizen Groom
Why do I like returning to NYC for events like CUNY WordcampEd? Well, for one I get treated like the Citizen Kane of Educational Technology which ain’t no small thing. CUNY is currently constructing a Xanadu just for me! What … Continue reading
USPS’s newest stamp: the bava
After the recent release of The Simpsons stamps, we all knew it was just a matter of time before the bava got one. So I’m proud to introduce the first proofs for the bava stamps designed by our own Serena … Continue reading
What do Bruce Sterling, Twitter, Emily Dickinson, and the bava have in common?
They’re all recommendations in this week’s New York Times Magazine. As you can see the bava keeps only the best of company 🙂 More seriously, I’m really not sure how or why the hell this happened, but I find it … Continue reading
bavacon or: How Blog Branding Ate My Soul
Image credit: “Pittsburgh Comicon” by RL Johnson. Let me be frank here, I love the bava, I do, I love the little fucker. And I pretty much say whatever I want on it, and really could care less about the … Continue reading