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Everything Jim Groom touches is gold. He's like King Midas, but with the Internet.
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@jimgroom is the Billy Martin of edtech.
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“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: twid
This Week in ds106: Week 4 Recap (4.4)
Alan Levine, ds106 alum Andrew Allingham, and myself talk with Ben Rimes, Giulia Forsythe, and Zack Dowell (aka Noise Professor) about the Daily Creates and Visual Assignments featured thus far. Below are links to featured visual assignments: http://delicious.com/stacks/view/M3AzJF Links to … Continue reading
This Week in ds106: Google Reader, The Daily Create, and Visual Assignments (4.3)
This is the video of my course section on Thursday, February 9th. We discussed Google Reader, The Daily Create, and Visual Assignments at some length.
This Week in ds106: Alan Levine on Photography (4.1)
In Tuesday’s face-to-face class at UMW I had the good fortune of Alan Levine presenting to my students in the flesh. I have to take a moment here to recognize how much better ds106 has gotten since I started constantly … Continue reading
This Week in ds106: Week 4 Preview
Alan Levine and I preview what’s to come in week three. Alan is bringing in both Kris Krug and D’Arcy Norman to talk to his class on Wednesday at 6 PM EST, and I am excited to drop the hammer … Continue reading
This Week in ds106: Kim Droom vs Enre5807
Almost all the students blogs in ds106 have been hacked by Enre5807, luckily we have detective Kim Droom on the job investigating the case. It is a complex case with a lot of ins and outs—but ds106 lies down for … Continue reading
This Week in ds106: Week 3 Preview
Alan Levine and I preview what’s to come in week three. Alan is looking forward to some face-to-face love with his students and we are both excited about Bryan Alexander coming to chat with us this Thursday, February 2nd about … Continue reading
This Week in ds106: Tune in Tokyo
This afternoon I caught up with Scott Lockman to talk about the awesome work his students over at Temple University, Japan (TUJ) have been doing thus far. Over the past week one of the TUJ students submitted this Patty Pioneers … Continue reading
This Week in ds106: Gardner Campbell on Personal Cyberinfrastructures
ds106: Gardner Campbell talks Personal Cyberinfrastructure from umwnewmedia on Vimeo. Once again this semester we were privileged to have Gardner Campbell, the inspiration for the ethos of ds106, join us via Skype to talk about everything from his essay on … Continue reading
ds106 and blog experimenting
ds106 week 2: Blog Experimenting from umwnewmedia on Vimeo. During this evening’s session of ds106 we went over some wrap up from week 1, the importance of commenting, and let everyone know it is high time they start blogging. To that … Continue reading
This Week in ds106 (Episode 1)
Hope your first week went well and was not too disorientating in terms of ds106. I wanted to send you a quick note to remind you of a few things. Week 1 Assignments: 1) For the first week you have … Continue reading