Stories of Our Stories Radio Show! : Week 8 Reflection

Stories of Our Stories Radio Show! : Week 8 Reflection

by @madelinek106

| Syndicated
March 18, 2021

It’s done! This week my group and I finished our radio show: “Stories of Our Stories”. I am really happy with how it turned out. We all put alot of work into it so it is rewarding to have it completed! Take a listen: Stories of Our Stories Blog Posts Weekly Reflection This project helps build my audio […]
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Hannah Montana & Jo Bros: Radioshow progress week 2

by @madelinek106

| radioshowweek2, Syndicated
March 18, 2021

For week 2, all my group and I had left to do was edit and record our stories and add them altogether! We were all on top of it last week and completed our bumpers and commercials. We met on zoom Friday to talk about the order of how we wanted our radio show to be. We talked […]
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Daily Creates for Week 8

by @madelinek106

| Syndicated
March 18, 2021

Along with the radio show, I completed daily creates this week!
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Radio Show and more! Week 7 recap

by @madelinek106

| Syndicated, WeeklySummary
March 12, 2021

This week my group and I have made exciting advancements in our radio show “Stories of Our Stories”. I honestly love our show idea and design. Everyone has created really cool bumpers and commercials. We are all getting really into the whole disney channel theme of it. Radio Show Progress You can read about the radio show we […]
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Harry Styles and my dog: week 7 daily create

by @madelinek106

| Syndicated
March 12, 2021

This week I had fun creating tweets for ds106 Daily Create! I have been working on the radio show so much it was fun to take a creative break and make fun little projects! I love Harry Styles, so he needed to be in this photo! Is it really a daily create if I don’t use my dog […]
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Disney Channel & Our Stories

by @madelinek106

| radioshowweek1, Syndicated
March 8, 2021

For my radio show I am in a group with Maddy, Rosemary, and Jordan. We all decided to make our radio show theme about our childhood stories. I am really excited to work on this radio show with them because everyone has such great ideas! We all met on zoom and made a group chat to talk out […]
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Stories of Our Stories: Promo Design

by @madelinek106

| radioshowpromo, Syndicated
March 8, 2021

I made an Instagram Story design promo for my radio show “Stories of Our Stories”. (You can see the story on my instagram story highlights as well as my twitter). Our theme is childhood nostalgia. Specifically old disney channel vibes. I used the instagram story create feature to make the design. First I found an image of the […]
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“Red Dressss” Shine Like The Stars: Commercial

by @madelinek106

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments1907, Syndicated
March 8, 2021

I completed the “Make Your Own Radio Commercial” assignment in order to prepare for the radio show. My group is doing a childhood stories radio show. For our commercials some of us are doing nostalgic things (toys) from our childhood that correspond with our stories. My story is all about going to concerts (Jonas Brothers,, Aly&AJ,, other old […]
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“And YOU’RE watching Disney Channel”: Radio Show Bumper

by @madelinek106

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2616, Syndicated
March 8, 2021

I was really excited to make a new bumper to put in our radio show (Stories of Our Stories). This assignment is an audio assignment called “radio bumper”. I liked the first radio bumper I made, so I wanted to make the new one similar to it. We want our radio show to not only tell stories from […]
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60’s vibes, logos, posters: Week 6 Summary

by @madelinek106

| Syndicated, WeeklySummary
March 4, 2021

This week I was able to create designs and explore more editing tools. I think so far this week has been my favorite because I really enjoy creating color pallets and designs. I have had experience with photoshop in highschool and we would complete similar assignments. This week I was able to challenge myself by learning new design […]
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Grooooovyyy : my 60’s & succulent inspired poster

by @madelinek106

| designassignments, Syndicated
March 4, 2021

For graphic design week I made a poster using GIMP, design aspects from 60’s album covers ,as well as pictures of my own plants! My Poster Inspiration I was really excited to start working on my own poster for this class. I really wanted this poster to represent my personality and different things I enjoy. As I explained […]
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Look out for the iceberg! : Daily Create Journal

by @madelinek106

| ds106, Syndicated
March 3, 2021

On this rainy week I had fun creating designs and taking pictures for the daily create assignments. I started off by taking a picture of my dog asleep (she sleeps most of the day so it was easy to find her napping!) I also liked seeing Morgan’s dog napping too! I didn’t really know what to create for […]
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Eighth Notes and Vines : Creating a Website Logo and Icon

by @madelinek106

| designassignments, DesignAssignments1342, Syndicated
March 2, 2021

When I saw the “Website Logo” assignment I knew it was a challenge I wanted to take on! This year I have been working hard on establishing a professional online identity. I have been updating and editing my main domain. I have added menus to all my subdomains and updated themes. One thing I haven’t done that has […]
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Radio Show Event Poster Design

by @madelinek106

| designassignments, DesignAssignments2472, Syndicated
March 1, 2021

For the “Event Poster” design assignment I didn’t really have an event in mind. However I knew that coming up for this class was the radio show, so I decided to make a poster for my radio show. I have never designed an event poster before so I played around with Canva. It was really cool because there […]
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Skies of Blue on a cloudy day… Contradiction Creation

by @madelinek106

| #DesignAssignments2075, designassignments, Syndicated
March 1, 2021

The “Contradiction Creation” assignment stood out to me because I thought it was funny. On Instagram and Twitter I am constantly seeing “inspiring’ images with quotes. And this week has been so cloudy and rainy I have been wishing for warmer weather. I can’t wait until it is spring time! I thought of the song “What A Wonderful […]
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Clueless, Mamma Mia, and other designs: Design Blitz

by @madelinek106

| designblitz, Syndicated
March 1, 2021

Design is all around! Once I first read this assignment I thought it would be hard to find examples of design composition in my everyday life. Being in pandemic times I don’t really go anywhere so all of the designs I found were in my house. I took the pictures with my iPhone and uploaded them to my […]
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Ferris Bueller Poster Design Thoughts

by @madelinek106

| designthoughts, Syndicated
February 28, 2021

I had never thought much about design in terms of movie posters and book covers before. The video “Movie Poster Expert Explains Color Schemes” was really interesting and made me look at movie posters differently now. I learned that red and white movie poster designs are used for comedies. One of my favorites, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” follows […]
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Sounds and Songs: Week 5 reflection

by @madelinek106

| Syndicated, WeeklySummary
February 26, 2021

This week I worked ahead because I had a busy week coming up! I managed to create all of the cool audio assignments we had and participate in conversations with my classmates! Radio Bumper I made a “Grease Inspired Radio Bumper”. It was really fun because it was actually used alot in the radio show this week so […]
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radioshow review ds106radio

by @madelinek106

| ds106radio, Syndicated
February 25, 2021

Listening to the radio show on February 22nd was so much fun and really interesting. I loved tweeting along with everyone because it felt like we were in class discussing! I was so surprised when I heard my radio bumper play at the start and end of the show! I got some comments which were really nice about […]
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A response from UMW?! : Daily Create Journal

by @madelinek106

| Syndicated
February 25, 2021

This week I made some interesting daily creates. I also got a notification from UMW’s twitter in response to an old daily create I made which was cool! The first was an artifact which I had never seen or heard of before.. Then I had to create a spam announcement! Finally, I named Sammy D Eagle the best […]
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Another Biscuit Story!

by @madelinek106

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2371, Syndicated
February 21, 2021

I know that I have done alot of posts about my dog, Biscuit, but can you blame me? She is too cute not to talk about! I told a quick story about her on my soundcloud for the “Tell a Story” assignment. Enjoy!
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A Suspensful Sound Effect Story

by @madelinek106

| #AudioAssignments, Syndicated
February 21, 2021

I wanted to create a somewhat scary story for my sound. Here it is: Imagine you are just getting home from work on a rainy spring day. The birds are chirping, but the thunder and rain have made it very dark outside. You open your creaky door and notice a fire is crackling in your fireplace. That’s weird. […]
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Interview? Podcast? Music? Radio Show Ideas

by @madelinek106

| #radioshowideas, Syndicated
February 21, 2021

I’m really excited to make a radio show! I think our theme is very broad so there can be a lot of paths one could take with it. One idea could be an interview of group members to talk about “their story/experience” with COVID and ways of coping (in terms of school, hobbies etc…). Another idea could be […]
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Hey Jude Cover!

by @madelinek106

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2125, Syndicated
February 21, 2021

Background For the “Cover it Up” assignment I was challenged to make a cover of a song! I have been recently learning “Hey Jude” by the Beatles on piano. I love the Beatles! They were my most listened to artists on Spotify last year, and “Hey Jude” is one of my favorite songs! I also love singing with my […]
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Frozen 2 and Moon Graffiti: Audioreflection

by @madelinek106

| #audioreflection, Syndicated
February 21, 2021

The moon graffiti podcast story was really interesting and I was captivated by it. The audio editing was really good and the sounds created a great story. For example, the mood in the beginning of the story is desperate and frantic. At times Buzz and Niel are interrupting each other. The audio gets louder when they are using […]
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Pickled Peppers!

by @madelinek106

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2119, Syndicated
February 21, 2021

I decided that the “Tongue Twister” assignment looked fun so I gave it a shot! I found a list of tongue twisters online and picked the “Peter Piper” tongue twister: “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked, If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where’s the peck […]
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Grease Inspired Radio Bumper

by @madelinek106

| radiobumper, Syndicated
February 21, 2021

You know the morning announcement scene in Grease? If not take a look: The xylophone tune for the morning announcements inspired my radio bumper for the ds106 radio show! Sadly, I don’t own an xylophone so I used my uke instead! ...
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Say “Cheese”… Week 4 Reflection

by @madelinek106

| Syndicated, Weekly Reflections, WeeklySummary
February 18, 2021

Well week 4 was one of my busiest weeks yet! I took a different approach to this class than I usually do this week because of the visual assignments aspect. This weekend I looked over and planned for the assignments I would do. Then, at the beginning of the week I took all the pictures I needed for […]
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Sunrise…Sunset: Time of Day

by @madelinek106

| Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments431
February 18, 2021

I saw the “Time of Day” (3.5 stars) assignment and thought that it would be a cool thing to try out. I love taking pictures of the woods in my backyard and love how the sun moves throughout the day and creates shadows on the trees. I took these pictures at 6am, 12pm, 4pm , and 8pm. Throughout […]
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Harry and Timothée using Meal Swipes! : Pop Star Out of Place

by @madelinek106

| Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments1752
February 18, 2021

For the “Pop Star out of Place” (3.5 stars) I had fun editing my favorite celebrities in locations on campus! I am a big fan of Harry Styles and Timothée Chalamet and I think they would really enjoy dining at UMW. In these pictures you can see Harry grabbing some lunch at the UC and Timothée waiting in […]
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