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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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Recent comments
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- Eric Likness on Some Initial Mastodon Instance Tweaking
- Reverend on Some Notes on Mastodon after Two Weeks
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Recent Posts
- Reclaim.Rocks Mastodon
- Some Initial Mastodon Instance Tweaking
- Archiving Twitter
- Some Notes on Mastodon after Two Weeks
- Installing Mastodon on Reclaim Cloud
- Preparing to Install Mastodon on Reclaim Cloud
- Hacks for Hybrid Working Flexing on Reclaim Edtech
- Haunting the Ghost Flex Course
- There’s a ds106 Social Going On in Mastodon!
- Talking WordPress Multiregion Hosting on Reclaim Today
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Tag Archives: survivalism
The Zombie Chronicles
Below are 8 videos (which I actually embedded as a playlist from YouTube) that I took in my shed while Tom Woodward and I were preparing our “live interview” for Jared Stein and Marc Hugentobler’s “Late Night Learning Live” presentation, … Continue reading
The EdTech Survivalists are heading to SXSW
Well, it all got confirmed today, Tom Woodward and I will be traveling together to SXSW. The trip is made possible thanks to Dave Lester’s panel on EDUPUNK that I will take part in, along with Barbara Ganley, Gardner Campbell, … Continue reading
Survival Research Laboratories
It’s Funny the things you begin to find once you explore a certain subject. And I have been thinking more and more about this as it pertains to learning on the web, versus the kind of radically open (yet in … Continue reading
The EdTech Survivalist has been hacked!
While I was trying to record the most recent EdTech Survivalist video, I was hacked by an alter-ego I thought had been laid to rest long ago. So forgive the quality of this recent installation, but I was shanghai’d in … Continue reading
EdTech Survivalist: Episode 1
“Fishing with Tom” In our first episode we were ever so lucky to catch up with Dixie’s most impressive edtech survivalist Tom “Catfish” Woodward. We tunneled all the way down to the swamps of Slocum, Alabama to find him, and … Continue reading
The EdTech Survivalist
Because the future is now… Find out more about surviving the coming apocalypse here. Camera work by the great Serena Epstein.