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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.
I am Jim Groom
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Tag Archives: general
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
The Viral Learning Center
Sign up today! [youtube]QsHPJ0eJilU[/youtube] Disclaimer: this is not to be confused with Virtual Learning Spaces! 🙂 This link comes from the inimitable Andy Rush, who has posted a whole series of additional links to cool videos that play upon this … 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
Hey kids, smoke ’em if you got ’em
A cheap shot, I know, but I just couldn’t resist, candy cigarettes are still on the shelves! Well, I bet there’s not “a cough in a carload!” This is even more striking to me after being in Canada for six … Continue reading
Colonizing MySpace
During the New Web seminar at the University of Victoria, Jim Spadacinni talked a bit about the potential for museums to colonize popular social sites for both exposure and networking. Logic being, regardless of how much one may hate how … Continue reading
Web 2.0 Conference Posters: do they get any better than this?
I loved this image so much I had to blog about it. The Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Center at Baruch College is kicking it old new school. Click on the link for more details about the conference. Link.
Stumble Upon
A very fun application I have found myself using often over the last couple of days is Stumble Upon. The premise is pretty simple, join up for free, click a few categories you are interested in, and download a toolbar … Continue reading
Heading to sunny Portland, OR
That’s right, the family and I are heading to the left coast today to catch up with friends then I am off to Victoria, B.C. for a seminar on the New Web for Museums with Jim Spadacinni. Taking a quick … Continue reading
Shelfari
I just added a new tab to bavatuesdays titled “bavabooks.” This tab takes you to my Shelfari account which features some of the books I am currently working through (or dying to work through, as it stands). I found this … Continue reading
CONELRAD: an Online Mecca for Cold War Culture
I have been so industrious as of late 🙂 that I have almost forgotten to slow down a bit and have a little fun, this is a “b” blog after all. Well, some folks might define fun as sniffing glue … Continue reading