On September 20, 2011, Jim Groom addressed an audience of faculty, staff, and students at Penn State. Jim Groom is an instructional technology specialist and adjunct professor at the University of Mary Washington an innovative thinker in the field of educational technology. Groom developed the highly recognized academic blogging platform at University of Mary Washington. This platform has been used to create class sites, e-portfolios and other web-based resources ranging from English, linguistics and speech blogs to online literary journals.

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