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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: reclaim
Form of an Awesome Superfriends Trivia Quiz
In preparation of Reclaim Edtech‘s first Flex Course on Gravity Forms next month, the great Tom Woodward has created a fun Superfriends Triva Quiz using, you guessed it, Gravity Forms 🙂 You can take the quiz by clicking the image … Continue reading
Reclaim Roundup Four Months On
It has been a pretty amazing start of 2022 at Reclaim Hosting, with the creation of an Instructional Technology group, the building of an edtech professional development community, and then all things Reclaim Cloud, there has been no shortage of … Continue reading
Introducing Instructional Technology at Reclaim Hosting
It’s happening! I’ve alluded to the idea that Reclaim Hosting is exploring edtech a couple of months ago, and yesterday we officially announced the launch of our instructional technology offering. Lauren Hanks provides an excellent overview in the following video, … Continue reading
Community Chat: The State of Reclaim
I’ve got some blogging to catch-up on this week, but I wanted to start with a quick recap of the our second community chat last week, the “State of Reclaim.” In this edition we wanted to invite folks to hear … Continue reading
Building a Community Showcase for Domains and Beyond
On Wednesday, January 12th from 12-1pm EST, Reclaim’s latest edition of awesome, Taylor Jadin, will be sharing a site template he created in WordPress—something of a SPLOT—that will help folks quickly and easily build a website for showcasing work. It … Continue reading
Reclaim EdTech
Yesterday was in many ways the start of something new, fun, and cool at Reclaim Hosting:Â the first team meeting of Reclaim’s emergent instructional technology team. I realized during that two-hour-marathon-meeting-that-did-not-suck that I’ve been waiting near-on nine years for this … Continue reading
Updating a Ghost Docker Container on Reclaim Cloud
One of the things I wanted to figure out after installing Ghost as a Docker Container on Reclaim Cloud was how to update it to subsequent versions. Below is a very short video on the process as well as the … Continue reading
Spinning Up a Ghost Docker Container in Reclaim Cloud
Reclaim Hosting is planning on using Ghost to power our monthly newsletters starting this month, so Pilot has been exploring installing it on Reclaim Cloud using the Marketplace app. Turns out it was out-of-date and not so easy to update, … Continue reading
WordPress Multi-Region on Reclaim Cloud
First there was WPMu, then WPMS, and now WPMR! WordPress Multi-Region is more a hosting than application specific feature, and to be clear this functionality is possible for applications beyond WordPress. But Jelastic, our Cloud Provider for Reclaim Cloud, has … Continue reading
Reclaim Hosting and the Space of Possibility
Reclaim Hosting’s mission to make technology accessible for educational institutions recently expanded to cloud services.https://t.co/6L0E4z62RJ pic.twitter.com/dUCn89kO0H — HostingAdvice.com (@Hosting_Advice) October 6, 2021 About a week ago Hosting Advice published an article featuring Reclaim Hosting. It was pretty cool given it … Continue reading