Radio Show Progress

Radio Show Progress

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October 8, 2021

We have been working together in groups this past week on radio show project. The project lasts through the end of next week. This week my group set up a communication method to ensure we are always in the know with what is happening and we included the professor in the conversation. We recently all met on a call and sorted out who is doing what. We have a couple ongoing Google Docs that highlight everyone’s roles and coordinating who … Continue reading "Radio Show Progress"
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Sixth Weekly Summary

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October 1, 2021

Daily Creates for the week! I like to work on Daily Creates so much. They are always fun creative challenges. As I said before, it just feels like a nice class activity to take part in on Twitter every week. This week we did some readings on what design is. DESIGN IS EVERYTHING! Next, we did a Design Blitz! This is our second time doing one of these types of assignments. I had a terrific time taking photos and looking … Continue reading "Sixth Weekly Summary"
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Assignments for Week Six

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October 1, 2021

Vogue Challenge Breakdown: I edited this photo to give it a Vogue look. I then got a Vogue logo that looked similar to the photo and added it. I wanted to give it a cool tapped on look. Create a Log that is Simple but Interesting Breakdown: I took this photo the other day after leaving my internship for the day. I then edited this text over it using a simple black and white. I thought I would do that … Continue reading "Assignments for Week Six"
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Design Blitz

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October 1, 2021

Balance – The Capitol in all ways is created with with this in mind. Just look at it. Proportion – My drink from Starbucks was crafted just to the right proportion. Rhythm – Downtown Fredericksburg was designed with a beautiful rhythm. Look at how the home a businesses all go together. Form/Function/Message – Fenway Park – Home of the Boston Red Sox in every way represents Boston and who the Red Sox are.
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Design Thoughts

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October 1, 2021

I really enjoyed doing this reading on all that goes into design. It is truly wild when you think about it and break it all down. EVERYTHING IS DEIGNED. We are all designers. Everything in life is deigned in some type of way even if it is unintentional. We learned based on the readings about the disciplines in which go into it all. We think about people and the way in which we live our lives. We think about emotion … Continue reading "Design Thoughts"
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Fifth Weekly Summary

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September 24, 2021

As always, let’s start with the Daily Creates! I think this was my favorite week of Daily Creates yet! I really loved it! Next up we get into the main assignments for the week. This week we had more to do than any other week before. Personally this week it took the most amount of time to do everything just because of the process that comes with audio storytelling. There are a lot of steps that went into these assignments … Continue reading "Fifth Weekly Summary"
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Assignment Posts for Week Five

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September 24, 2021

Hi, everyone! This week as everyone in the class knows we are doing audio assignments for our weekly assignments. We started off with the radio bumper which on my previous post. This post is the Sound Effect story. Titled: Coffee Shop Breakdown: I recorded this in an actual coffee shop as you might be able to tell. I created all of the noises with objects around me. I took the sound recording from my phone and uploaded it to Soundcloud. … Continue reading "Assignment Posts for Week Five"
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DS106 Radio

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September 24, 2021

I really enjoyed listening to the station for this hour with the class. I chose to listen to the first session of the week, which was Monday night from 8-9 ET. We listened to a story filled with mystery and curious sounds. I love how it was all broken down. The comments from the class in our Discord were terrific too! It was nice to speak with everyone in real time about something we were all engaging in. It really … Continue reading "DS106 Radio"
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Radio Bumper

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September 24, 2021

Here it is, folks! My radio bumper for DS106 Radio! I’m super excited to get going on audio content for class. As a person who has always enjoyed podcasting, this is going to be terrific. Breakdown of how I did this: For this assignment I recorded myself in a way that I thought would sound good going in between songs for our radio station. I then saved it to my MacBook as an mp3 files and then uploaded it to … Continue reading "Radio Bumper"
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Audio Storytelling

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September 24, 2021

Here a couple examples of audio storytelling that I wanted to share. One is a political podcast and the other is about fantasy football. Both are very different and both break down happenings and stories very well throughout the week to a huge listener base respectively. To explain my approach: I took each of these from Spotify where I listen to all of my podcast. Brainstorming wise I thought about the stories each week that I consume and both of … Continue reading "Audio Storytelling"
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Fourth Weekly Summary

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September 17, 2021

Hi, everyone! I hope have had a terrific week! Let’s start off with the Daily Creates! I had a good time creating these this week and I enjoyed seeing everyone else’s tweets as well. Some really creative ideas! Next you can find my assignments for the week right here. We had some new types of assignments this week to go along with picking out posts that are worth a certain amount of stars. I think we are really in the … Continue reading "Fourth Weekly Summary"
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Assignment Posts for Week Four

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September 17, 2021

– contrast Bringing out what is there even more.– perspective That’s you!– depth Where you decide to take it – balance How you’re presenting it– moment That point in time– lighting Surroundings– foreground/background Where you are Photoblitz Take a photo that includes a manufactured product and at least one of its elements. Numbers are all around you.Find your favourite number .Can graffiti be beautiful? Let your photo make a statement.Pattern is built on repetition, like a rhythm. A regular or … Continue reading "Assignment Posts for Week Four"
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Third Weekly Summary

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September 10, 2021

First, here are the three Daily Creates for this week! I had a terrific time with these. They allow us to quickly come up with interesting and creative ideas! Here you can find the four writing assignments I completed this week to equal 12 stars! I was able to expand on our character creation for class, talk about a historic manor, take a bit of a look into the future, and speak about the respect a fear has for me … Continue reading "Third Weekly Summary"
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Assignment Posts for Week Three

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September 10, 2021

Your Character’s Post – Creating a background for my character Last week I introduced you to the the alternate version of myself who was friends with John F. Kennedy. Check out my blog post from last week see the character with the former president. He resided in Georgetown in Washington, DC and spent a lot of time hanging out with his Kennedy friends. He enjoyed all of the to-dos around his Georgetown neighborhood and frequented the many wonderful dining establishments. … Continue reading "Assignment Posts for Week Three"
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Second Weekly Summary

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September 3, 2021

Above you will find my five Daily Creates for the week. I was really interested taking on these creative assignments and loved seeing everyone else’s posts on Twitter. They are really great ways of running a quick and creative practice for the day, allowing for us to think outside of the box and expand what we are coming up with digitally. Next up, You can check out the three assignment posts I did for the week. I chose a visual … Continue reading "Second Weekly Summary"
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Assignment Posts for Week Two

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September 3, 2021

The moment I saw this visual assignment I knew I had to do it. I was inspired by the original image of JFK in the assignment photo. I pass by one of the Kennedy’s old homes in Georgetown all the time and here is a photo of me in the same spot in front of the house, right where John F. Kennedy was. I edited my photo to be black and white and then made it a bit more grainy … Continue reading "Assignment Posts for Week Two"
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Multimodal

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August 27, 2021

https://www.instagram.com/p/CSz9pZVpLuk/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link I’m excited to get going with my internship this semester in the House of Representatives. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqRPMucDq3_TyQnMzrHGpFA Here is where I will be uploading videos for our class! My SoundCloud that I made for class. Looking forward to see how we integrate it. Here are all of the platforms that we needed to connect with the blog for our class. I know we are definitely going to get really creative and I’m excited for that all that we do.
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Weekly Summary

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August 26, 2021

First we did our welcomes and we really going things going for Digital Storytelling! Once again, looking forward to getting started! Second we watched Bob Ross videos and were able to ease into the course by describing what we watched and relating it back to our class intro video from the professor. Next we go to talk about goals for the course. Ultimately I am excited to really create a community amongst our selves in this course. I know a … Continue reading "Weekly Summary"
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Goals

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August 26, 2021

Hey, everyone! Excited to get going with our Digital Storytelling class! #ds106— Mike (@myclassaccount) August 27, 2021 I created a new Twitter account to use specifically for our #ds106 course. Above is my first tweet. My overall goal for this...
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Trail’s End

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August 26, 2021

I was assigned to watch the Bob Ross paint his Trail’s End painting. I know people have continued to watch him through the years for a sense of comfort. He makes people feel at home and at ease with themselves. His Trail’s End painting went from a circle to and incredible spot at the Trail’s End. It really is magical to see him work. To see where he takes things is almost unreal! As you watch it just feel so … Continue reading "Trail’s End"
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Welcome!

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August 26, 2021

Excited to get going with this blog for our class! I’m sure that we will have a lot of terrific conversations. There are so many fantastic things that we can get into. My name is Mike and I am a senior at UMW. I am a Comms major and am glad I ch...
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