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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: blogging
Unpublished Sylvia Plath poem brought to you by an undergraduate blog at UMW?!
Ok, I’m gonna take a different tact from the RIAA’s methods of dealing with college students, rather then threatening suit and certain incrimination -I will celebrate the unbelievably cool work that has been going on here at UMW. Amanda Rutstein … Continue reading
Structures of Feeling
Stephen Downes, in the quote below, crystallizes the reasons why the field of instructional technology needs to be a lot more than a conversation about a range of tools. Presumably philosophy does have an inherent interest in something other than … Continue reading
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
Read, Think, Remix
The blogosphere I inhabit has been quite active as of late with some really thoughtful examinations of the ways we understand such large and powerful ideas as the nature of the university, teaching and learning, technology, and our own sense … Continue reading
Writing New York: Posts from the Boroughs and Beyond
This morning a friend and former colleague of mine, Luke Waltzer, turned me on to a wonderful class project that he has been working on with two professors at Baruch College. Professors Bridgett Davis and Roz Bernstein’s students have been … Continue reading
Speaking of students at UMW…
…I can’t begin to tell you how impressed I am with our student-aide’s blog titled Pedagaming. Joe McMahon is quickly becoming one of my favorite bloggers. He is new to the form, but not the medium. Additionally, I really like … Continue reading
Social Software for Learning Environments
D’Arcy Norman, Chris Lott, Sylvia Currie, and Jon Beasley-Murray combined forces examining a wide array of issues facing the integration of social software into the learning environment. At the core of these various discussions was the enigma of community -what … Continue reading
Chris Lott’s Brain -a great place to be!
Chris Lott‘s has been gracious enough to let us into his brain. Here are three questions he is working through now: 1. radically increasing bandwidth, processing, and storage capacity 2. changing student demographics because of access to that technology and … Continue reading
The wiki has been made a blog… story at 11!
All I am gonna say right now is that John Maxwell, presenter of “designing a smarter wiki” (see his notes in the Northern Voice wiki) has effectively married the wiki and the blog. Amazing stuff, check this out: is it … Continue reading
Northern Voice: here I come, baby!!!
I am getting really, really fired up now. I am in the Richmond, VA airport -it’s 6:30 am and I ready to go downright crazy with anticipation. So, I’ll quote a video that Andy Rush linked to a while back … Continue reading