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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.
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-James D. Calder
@jimgroom is the Billy Martin of edtech.
-Luke Waltzer
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-Clint Lalonde
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-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: ReclaimVideo
Reclaim Video on a Thursday Afternoon
While Reclaim Video officially opened two weeks ago, it did not really dawn on me until almost a week later. After the grand opening we locked in with MBS then road tripped to get Centipede. But as it turns out people … Continue reading
A MBS Special Presentation at Reclaim Video
This blog is pretty much all Reclaim all the time these days, and I am so very alright with that fact. Between Reclaim Hosting and Reclaim Video, what more could a blogger want? I already wrote about the first Summer Movie … Continue reading
Reclaim Phone Home
Scenes from opening day @reclaimvideo pic.twitter.com/ymRgmqD6V4 — Jim Groom (@jimgroom) June 8, 2018 I was on the ground for Reclaim Video‘s grand opening in Fredericksburg on June 8th, and I’m still reeling from all the goodness. I’ll be posting on … Continue reading
Kes
When I was in London at the end of April I had the good fortune of stumbling into a showing of Ken Loach‘s second feature film, Kes (1969), at the British Film Institute (BFI). It’s my second time at the … Continue reading
“Video Killed the Radio Star” at Reclaim Hosting
Lauren posted about this back in January when we first got the art because she is better than me, but Reclaim Hosting‘s site has undergone a subtle re-branding from vinyl to VHS. We launched the new art for our site … Continue reading
Reclaim Video GIFs
I put together a series of GIFs for a slideshow that was going to play in the background, between sessions, etc. at OER18. I don’t think that ever came to fruition—or at least I didn’t see it—but I kinda like it, … Continue reading
Reclaim Video: The Website
One of the elements of Reclaim Video that I am most excited about is exploring what is possible through the website. We launched the website as part of the world premier at OER18, and it’s pretty awesome. We had a … Continue reading
Readful Things at Reclaim Video
Some incredible artwork that we couldn’t resist for the new space. News on our opening coming very soon! A post shared by Reclaim Video ? (@reclaimvideo) on Apr 24, 2018 at 12:29pm PDT The entire Reclaim team has been … Continue reading
Losin’ It, Dead Zone, Videodrome, The Day After and more
The Reclaim Video storefront continues to flower as we bring in more titles.Over the last two weeks we added a bunch of titles such as Losin’ It and Dead Zone to knock a couple of titles off the 1983 wish … Continue reading
All the Right Movies
Last week was a whirlwind between a major migration, PressED Conference, and a packed-full Easter weekend. There was no real respite yesterday given we had a shared hosting server down most of the day, so attention was split to say … Continue reading