CUNY Academic Commons | Jim Groom | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/jimgroom/activity/ Activity feed for Jim Groom. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 4749f71ccd92aa622eb61370676fdc02 Jim Groom commented on the post, Hosting Migration Complete!, on the site CUNY Academic Commons News https://news.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/01/17/hosting-migration-complete/#comment-79095 Fri, 17 Jan 2025 23:31:02 -0500 All hail Boone! Reclaim us thrilled to be working with the Commons, you all are edtech heroes.

]]> 5b560369e3e7e917edb20f8721ff3110 Jim Groom wrote a new post on the site Citation Needed http://citationneeded.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=110 Tue, 27 Sep 2016 10:40:20 -0400 The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly. -F. Scott Fitzgerald

EdSurge had a feature article about the CUNY Games N […]

]]> 3e76db83be8ec4d337502bfaaba201e1 Jim Groom wrote a new post on the site Citation Needed http://citationneeded.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=98 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 13:54:01 -0400 “We are not complaining about the work. We want to see our hard work reflected in our pay.”

-Emmett J. Bogdon, President NALC Branch #116 (IN)

Possibly the biggest national and local news in Higher […]

]]> ecff793ab505f7ff8067dab984d1153f Jim Groom wrote a new post on the site Citation Needed http://citationneeded.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=84 Wed, 24 Aug 2016 17:55:04 -0400 We were barely out
of middle school
when Stuart showed me the scar—
From Gary Jackson’s “The Family Solid”

The Grad Center’s Convocation and New Student Orientation took place yesterday, and if Twitter i […]

]]> b8469461be4546ad62e6d75a93c22cb3 Jim Groom started the topic Citation Needed Round-up: Troll Rocks in the forum Teaching and Learning Center http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/teaching-and-learning-center/forum/topic/citation-needed-round-up-troll-rocks-4/ Fri, 12 Aug 2016 15:08:05 -0400 This week's round-up of happenings around the CUNY Academic Commons is up on the <a href="https://citationneeded.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/08/12/troll-rocks/">Citation Needed blog</a>. Some quick keyword highlights: Captain America, Portable EEGs, Iceland, GC Teaching Center, and the hippie scourge….

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]]> 06148343a8b066de1aeb912b0971c023 Jim Groom wrote a new post on the site Citation Needed http://citationneeded.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=65 Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:26:29 -0400 America when will you be angelic?
When will you take off your clothes?
When will you look at yourself through the grave?
From “America” by Allen Ginsberg

I have to start this week’s round-up with a nod t […]

]]> 3cac82ee6cbb4a7f8db9021db2dad44b Jim Groom wrote a new post on the site Citation Needed http://citationneeded.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=45 Tue, 02 Aug 2016 11:48:11 -0400 An agitation of the air,
A perturbation of the light
Admonished me the unloved year
Would turn on its hinge that night.
—“End of Summer” by Stanley Kunitz

With the coming of August there’s been a bit […]

]]> 7a309518952087107475bf4763afe8d5 Jim Groom commented on the post, In the beginning..., on the site Citation Needed https://citationneeded.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/07/22/in-the-beginning/#comment-23 Fri, 29 Jul 2016 09:13:47 -0400 I was wondering what it would take to get you to comment on this blog. I now know 🙂 BAVA COMMENTS 4LIFE! Thanks Boone, I love you!

]]> 51b1d0ae897d8eccf93aae323ee9a049 Jim Groom commented on the post, Faith in a Seed, on the site Citation Needed http://citationneeded.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/07/26/faith-in-a-seed/#comment-19 Wed, 27 Jul 2016 22:11:20 -0400 I am playing with an email service called Tinyletter that will send out a version of this weekly email to folks. I subscribe to Chris Lott’s Katexic Newsletter newsletter that does this, and I love it. I’m not […]

]]> b18109db8d1aa2267a880f09dc99150e Jim Groom commented on the post, Faith in a Seed, on the site Citation Needed http://citationneeded.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/07/26/faith-in-a-seed/#comment-17 Wed, 27 Jul 2016 21:23:39 -0400 I’m look at the subscriptions plugins available now. I’ll make sure that’s in place soon.

]]> 0577f39db52c2eccbeab6a4752a8d478 Jim Groom commented on the post, Faith in a Seed, on the site Citation Needed http://citationneeded.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/07/26/faith-in-a-seed/#comment-16 Wed, 27 Jul 2016 21:23:05 -0400 It took me long enough to get here, thanks for your patience! Now, let’s see if I can make this make sense ;0

]]> 09eb647d593d1d663427e050354bd27a Jim Groom commented on the post, Faith in a Seed, on the site Citation Needed http://citationneeded.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/07/26/faith-in-a-seed/#comment-13 Tue, 26 Jul 2016 16:59:25 -0400 Thanks Chris, that means a lot. Appreciate the heads up on Events and Social Paper, I’ll be sure to loop them into my round-up. This first one was a rough template, but going forward I am hoping to start breaking […]

]]> 280cc632912afaf84729610fe973b666 Jim Groom wrote a new post on the site Citation Needed http://citationneeded.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=13 Tue, 26 Jul 2016 13:11:57 -0400 Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has
been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed
there, and I am prepared to expect wonders. —Henry David […]

]]> 106041ad1d14b57eb650b597a0d891ba Jim Groom commented on the post, In the beginning..., on the site Citation Needed https://citationneeded.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/07/22/in-the-beginning/#comment-8 Tue, 26 Jul 2016 09:27:18 -0400 I am so glad you came here granting wishing, I wish to blog like you! Also, I totally agree about the image embedding in comments, I just tried to embed both yours and Sarah’s images, but was rejected.

I […]

]]> 3b7b622ac717db62a3b139f900626c9b Jim Groom commented on the post, In the beginning..., on the site Citation Needed https://citationneeded.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/07/22/in-the-beginning/#comment-7 Tue, 26 Jul 2016 09:22:49 -0400 Well, you can always release those cyanide capsules if not. Or you can just go around saying, “Jim Groom? I thought he was dead.”

]]> 5a403c911a7231fa343df4d80d076649 Jim Groom commented on the post, In the beginning..., on the site Citation Needed https://citationneeded.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/07/22/in-the-beginning/#comment-6 Tue, 26 Jul 2016 09:21:51 -0400 One of the first things I need to change in my new role as Blogger extraordinaire is getting Giphy links to automatically embed!

In fact, I even tried wrapping the link to that GIF in the img tags, but I felt […]

]]> ae840b48532835787d0c2a1c8b3fe8e4 Jim Groom wrote a new post on the site Citation Needed http://citationneeded.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=11 Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:49:36 -0400 I’ve been blogging for the last five months on the CUNY Commons News blog. I’ve been getting a feel for the community and keeping up with what’s happening around the Commons. That said, I’ve been struggling a […]

]]> 9cb734a7126273ac229e270999e81ba6 Jim Groom created the site Citation Needed https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/437811/ Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:55:26 -0400 00978eedef2df58a0209872da4b22337 Jim Groom wrote a new post on the site CUNY Academic Commons News http://news.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3595 Thu, 16 Jun 2016 20:16:13 -0400 As I was cruising around the CUNY Academic Commons sites earlier today to see what’s good, I was immediately taken with Shawn(ta) Cruz-Smith’s recent post on the Grad Center’s Library blog, namely “Graphic […]

]]> 72d344c28acc45ef5b9cbf4bc6ae1bb3 Jim Groom commented on the post, Graphic Activism: Lesbian Graphic Posters Exhibition, on the site Graduate Center Library Blog http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/06/15/graphic-activism-lesbian-graphic-posters-exhibition/#comment-5910 Thu, 16 Jun 2016 17:23:02 -0400 This is pretty awesome, I love the Punk Dyke pin. This exhibit could not be more timely, awesome to see the Grad Center representing.

]]> 6e0649538fd09c324b2fcecc40fd7d92 Jim Groom commented on the post, Anthony Picciano: the Long Distance Commons Blogger, on the site CUNY Academic Commons News http://news.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/06/03/anthony-picciano-the-long-distance-commons-blogger/#comment-18235 Fri, 03 Jun 2016 12:55:38 -0400 Thank you, Tony. It’s been a pleasure reading your site regularly for years, and now I even get to feature it!

]]> adaf6c24ab611f48ea9d724a992519be Jim Groom wrote a new post on the site CUNY Academic Commons News http://news.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3590 Fri, 03 Jun 2016 11:38:12 -0400 Whenever I come to the CUNY Academic Commons site I can be pretty sure of at least one thing, that Anthony Picciano, professor and executive officer of the Ph.D. Program in Urban Education at the Grad Center, has […]

]]> eaef0a58b88cfe4f74692a66d0caf993 Jim Groom commented on the post, Verso Tweets Break Windows, on the site CUNY Academic Commons News http://news.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/05/27/verso-tweets-break-windows/#comment-18232 Fri, 27 May 2016 21:57:52 -0400 Matt,
I wonder if that a series for the blog, podcast, videocast, etc. I think one of the limits of my own thinking has been to imagine this stuff as digital rather than just blogging the awesome work folks are […]

]]> 4b5f9327407d889c5b531ab7ecec84aa Jim Groom wrote a new post on the site CUNY Academic Commons News http://news.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3526 Wed, 11 May 2016 20:29:37 -0400 I was trawling through the posts on the CUNY Academic Commons last week and I came across this post celebrating the recently crowned PH.D.’s in the CUNY Grad Center’s English program. This was of particular […]

]]> 2526210fb3056cb12f09a53501f60c7f Jim Groom and David Humphries (he/him) are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/431334/ Fri, 08 Apr 2016 15:43:21 -0400 d548aa337962ab1440ab83dc5334df13 Jim Groom joined the group Renaissance Studies https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/431222/ Thu, 07 Apr 2016 08:00:37 -0400 47fce6322dd35464d345cabb13b829d1 Jim Groom wrote a new post on the site CUNY Academic Commons News http://news.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3505 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 21:36:47 -0400 My time at the Grad Center during the late 1990s is pretty closely associated for me with the New York Yankees dynasty from 1996 through 2000. Three world championships in a row (four in five years), and […]

]]> ecc306ee90b44fb677d73897e15aa57d Jim Groom wrote a new post on the site CUNY Academic Commons News http://news.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3470 Thu, 10 Mar 2016 09:13:54 -0500 Now for a little history you never wanted. I had many fellowships while I was a Ph.D. student at the CUNY Grad Center from 1997 through 2005. I started with a Graduate Teaching Fellowship from 1997 through 1999 […]

]]> 82e73b3b8d299c1d1a070d197a4e5978 Jim Groom wrote a new post on the site CUNY Academic Commons News http://news.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3453 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 19:41:30 -0500 Back in the summer of 1997 I was a strapping 26 year old with nary a gray hair. I was also on the cusp of matriculating into the CUNY Graduate Center’s English Ph.D. program. It was an exciting prospect to move […]

]]> 9937e98f84cb21594013faff8e001fa0 Jim Groom wrote a new post on the site CUNY Academic Commons News http://news.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3445 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 13:42:42 -0500 While exploring CUNY’s Academic Commons, I came across an announcement on the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative blog about an upcoming talk at the Grad Center:

The post immediately caught my attention be […]

]]> 5f67a88f743f0bd94a6c5b246024847b Jim Groom's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/427621/ Thu, 25 Feb 2016 10:26:54 -0500 30d47e0e2bdd827409f8615c1857da5e Jim Groom wrote a new post on the site CUNY Academic Commons News http://news.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3439 Fri, 19 Feb 2016 14:45:42 -0500 A couple of months ago Jill Cirasella wrote a post introducing the recently launched Academic Works site on the CUNY Grad Center’s Library blog.

Academic Works provides an open repository for access to the r […]

]]> e475b2ca1447e107d6e4b195da69b26e Jim Groom and Anthony Picciano are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426646/ Fri, 12 Feb 2016 22:58:01 -0500 478ee226dc89cb1326198a6e9da3da92 Jim Groom commented on the post, Commons 1.9.7, on the site CUNY Academic Commons Development Blog http://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/02/11/commons-1-9-7/#comment-3211 Fri, 12 Feb 2016 14:08:50 -0500 What yourself hoss, I am back on the CUNY on the scene, and I will read your release notes very, very carefully! Always watching!

]]> e40040e230241f0a91f3e7044be8c003 Jim Groom joined the group Teaching and Learning Center https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426620/ Fri, 12 Feb 2016 13:54:26 -0500 7700420c01cfd73ae0c3e09ba559e664 Jim Groom commented on the post, Pizza and place (and pigging out), on the site CUNY Pie http://cunypie.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/06/24/pizza-and-place-and-pigging-out/#comment-262 Sun, 12 Jul 2015 02:18:07 -0400 Holy shit, Marilyn Weber. So awesome. The world wide weber!

And Difara’s and Totono’s? That’s pretty awesome, I am very jealous. Chicago may have locks and ships and midwestern winds, but it ain’t got DiFara’s. Mic drop.

]]> bca0cd4459fe744334e04510346eb786 Jim Groom posted a new activity comment https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/76581/#acomment-76656 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:17:46 -0400 It’s good to be home 🙂

In reply to - Michael Branson Smith (he/him/his) posted an update @jimgroom welcome home! ]]> f11634e89644c4d7220daf4c944ea446 Jim Groom became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/76572/ Wed, 11 Jul 2012 13:48:52 -0400