Like many of our ds106 assignments, I was very skeptical about the sound effect story assignment, but I ended up having a lot of fun with it! This assignment really made me feel so much more comfortable using audacity. I found all of my sound effects on freesound.org. I downloaded the sound effects in the ...

I really enjoyed the ds106 radio bumper assignment! Who knew creating a radio bumper could be so fun! I loved listening to all the sound effects on freesound.org. I was constantly changing my bumper when I came across a sound I liked more. I am finally getting the hang of Audacity, I think. I really ...

This week I chose to listen to 3 radio drama broadcasts from The Truth. I listened to “Eat Cake,” “Lucy and the Bike Girl,” and “That’s Democracy.”  I have never listened to audio stories other than just audio books where someone is reading verbatim from the text. This was a very interesting experience that I ...

Ira Glass had very insightful views of radio storytelling in his four video segments. (one, two, three, four) First, he talks about the two major building blocks of storytelling, the anecdote and the moment of reflection. The anecdote is the sequence of events, this sequence should begin with a question that you will answer and ...

When I think about storytelling I think of being a little kid again. Whether it be my mom telling be a bedtime story so I would have peaceful dreams, or me telling her a story about eating all my dinner so  I could have dessert. Storytelling was a big part of my childhood, my mom ...

The first thing I did to research Creative Commons was simply google it. This immediately led me to creativecommons.org. Creative commons is a non-profit organization that allows you to share your creative works using free, legal licenses.  On their about page I watched a video  entitled Wanna Work Together? that really helped put creative commons ...

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