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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
wp2drupal: might I be jumping ship?
I am not sure if I am going to make the jump from WordPress to Drupal with bavatuesdays just yet, but I have been following Darcy Norman’s progress with Drupal quite closely over the past six months, and I am … Continue reading
BlackBoard: A Conversation Killer
As a great post by Bryan Alexander recently pointed out -how can you trace links to your site from others within BlackBoard so that the conversation can continue? Answer: You can’t, silly rabbit! After reading Bryan’s post, I tried a … Continue reading
The Powerhouse Museum: the Name Says it All
The New Web seminar at UVIC hosted another fascinating discussion today about integrating web 2.0 tools into the museum landscape with Seb Chan from the Powerhouse Museum (see this post for the highlights of our discussion with Kevin von Appen … Continue reading
The Ontario Science Center’s “RedShift Now”
I have so much to blog about these days that I am a bit overwhelmed. After my mini-vacation in Portland, Oregon I headed up to the land of Northern Voices to attend a seminar dealing with “The New Web: Interactive … Continue reading
Doing things with English 101, or Virtual Learning Spaces in Action!
Steve Greenlaw, of Pedablogy fame, noted a while back that the posts on bavatuesdays have been more like reading cuneiform on a tablet (notice the equation of ancient communication with the tablet) than a resource for teaching and learning. To … Continue reading
Doing things with bbpress
I saw the most recent announcement from WordPress this morning regarding the latest, stable version of WPMU (ver. 1.0 -a milestone) and the integration of a phpbb forum with WordPress, known as bbpress. Both of these developments are really exciting … Continue reading
Superstition: Middle Ages and Now
A test run of Viper007bond video plugin for YouTube, straight from WFMU’s blog post about this video … [youtube]N2TohOTqwm8[/youtube]
Embedding Google Videos in WordPress
I just found a great Coca-Cola commerical parodying Grand Theft Auto on digg. The commerical is hosted on google videos, so I went searching for a solution to embed it in a post of a WordPress blog I recently setup … Continue reading
Flickr Set Slideshow, featuring the Red Scare!
For a while now I have longingly watched Darcy Norman include Flickr sets in his blog posts. My urge to finally scratch this itch was further prompted by the fact that I recently bucked-up and became a proud Flickr Pro … Continue reading
Johns Hopkins has taken the Lyceum pill -boooyaaa!!!
I had known this for a few days now, but I wasn’t certain if it was a test run or the real deal, but it seems official given the recent post to the ibiblio lyceum blog- Johns Hopkins University is … Continue reading