http://blogs.ischool.berkeley.edu/dperkel A place to find Dan Perkel's stuff on the web Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:29:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On today's Inside Higher Ed we get some of the backstory on a service that offers students variable length corrupted files to turn into professors as they scramble to finish papers late. Some quotes I enjoyed: "Cheating is not the answer to procrastination! - Corrupted-Files.com is!" -- The point is that somehow ... http://blogs.ischool.berkeley.edu/dperkel/2009/06/05/corrupted-filescom-so-entrepreneurial/ This advice that "The only way to learn to write is to write, so write every day!" is not new to me at this point in my PhD career. My colleagues and I discuss it all the time. But, it's hard advice to follow sometimes. And often people just say ... http://blogs.ischool.berkeley.edu/dperkel/2009/02/11/another-take-on-writing-this-time-from-ken-plummer/ The Digital Youth Final Report has been launched. Apparently, the press has made it's move on this (NYT, SFGate). More to come... http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/report-announcement http://blogs.ischool.berkeley.edu/dperkel/2008/11/20/the-digital-youth-project-final-report/ People always tell me that any crisis of confidence I have as I do my research and writing is likely to be shared by others. Intellectually, I know this. Emotionally, I often don't experience it this way. Nevertheless, it is refreshing to hear from a scholar and writer of Marilyn ... http://blogs.ischool.berkeley.edu/dperkel/2008/09/28/the-process-of-writing-is-dealing-with-crisis/ I am off to London to attend the Fifth Anniversary Conference of Media@lse, which is the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics. I'll be presenting a paper that is part of ongoing dissertation research. It's called Peer pedagogy in an interest-driven community: The practices and problems ... http://blogs.ischool.berkeley.edu/dperkel/2008/09/18/peer-pedagogy-in-an-interest-driven-community-the-practices-and-problems-of-online-tutorials/ Having a page "under construction" seems very very old school to me. But, as I move my blog and site over to some new space at school, then under construction is the best way to describe it. Well, it's a way. http://blogs.ischool.berkeley.edu/dperkel/2008/08/11/under-construction/ This past week, NPR has been doing a series on The E-mail age. I haven't listened to all of them. In fact, I found the series serendipitously because of a story I was looking for that I heard on the radio this morning on Chinese Fans of American TV Shows, ... http://blogs.ischool.berkeley.edu/dperkel/2008/06/24/kids-and-adults-too-talk-to-many-at-once/ I'm not one for posting my emotions all over the web. So for my audience of four people, sorry about this. But Tim Russert's death is really bringing me down. I have been quite unhappy with the media coverage of the primaries. Actually, I was thoroughly annoyed last year before ... http://blogs.ischool.berkeley.edu/dperkel/2008/06/13/kinda-down/ A couple of weeks ago, the rhetoric was out of control over a book called The Dumbest Generation by Emory U. Professor Mark Bauerlein. I haven't read the book so i won't comment on it. There have been lots of comments on it all over the web and internal among ... http://blogs.ischool.berkeley.edu/dperkel/2008/06/01/dumbest-and-dumbester-and-dumbesterer/ Henry Jenkins recently came to speak to the School of Information (audio here). While much of the talk was on his take on the notion of new media literacies, the beginning of the talk was more focused on the problematic concepts of "Digital Native" and "Digital Immigrants." He recently wrote ... http://blogs.ischool.berkeley.edu/dperkel/2008/03/06/the-downfall-of-the-digital-native-and-the-google-generation/