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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
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-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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Swiffer, Gravity Forms, and Toolkits for User Innovation
I have been moving some stuff around in my basement in preparation for the container (an actual 40′ shipping container, not a Docker one) to land on Italian shores from the US. It will be the first time in almost … Continue reading
Communication, Community, and Commitment
Our focus at Reclaim Hosting throughout 2022 has been all about increased communication. And while I’ve mentioned this before on the bava, the Reclaim Roundup has in many ways been central to this push. It seems prosaic and not all … Continue reading
Peertube 4.2: Permanent Live Archiving, Web-based Video Editing, and more
Peertube 4.2.0 has been out for just over a week, and I finally got some time this morning to play around with it a bit. I have to say this is software I remain super excited about, and part of … Continue reading
Reflecting on the Domains 101 & 201 Workshop
I’m glad we had the foresight to record a reflection of our recent Domains 101 & 201 workshop the day after running it because it’s already fading into memory. We set aside a couple of hours on Thursday afternoon to … Continue reading
Migrating Ghost from Community Image to Docker Engine Installer on Reclaim Cloud
When sending out the April installment of Reclaim Roundup we ran into a glitch wherein the instance was faltering sending an email to all subscribers once that number topped 500. I assumed it was an issue with our third party … Continue reading
Form of Awesome: Wonder Twins Conundrum
In this installment of “Form of Awesome” Wonder Twins are cornered by evil Crypto Bros in a dark alley. The Crypto Bros are trying to sell them NFTs and will not take no for an answer. Zan and Jayna need … Continue reading
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