In the first two Ira Glass videos, I learned that in broadcasting, there are two basic building blocks. The first is the anecdote, which is a sequence of actions. It’s the momentum that keeps listeners interested. For a story, you normally start with an action and then constantly raise questions with bait. When you throw […]

This week was all about the sound. We had to listen to a bunch of stuff and then talk about that stuff. Yipee! Of course, we still had the Daily […]

This week taught me a lot about both storytelling and audio editing. The audio storytelling videos we watcher seemed to be a waste of time and boring as well, however “don’t judge a book by its cover” applies very nicely here. I enjoyed the the videos that Ira Glass and Jad Abumrad made. Ira was … Continue reading Weekly Summary #3 →

“Tell a story using nothing but sound effects. There can be no verbal communication, only sound effects. Use at least five different sounds that you find online. The story can be no longer than 90 seconds.” I made a short story using sounds from Freesounds. My story is about a person entering their home, hearing […]

For the Create a Warning Poster assignment, I’d recommend using PowerPoint. I find it to be easy to work with, and use it frequently for this type of work. First, […]

Assignment link 3 stars I decided to use Audacity for this assignment. For the conversation topic, I thought about all the things that I would be able to and would likely have an argument about. I choose to go with the topic of tennis, since I play and have been teaching tennis for a long … Continue reading One person conversation →

For these of you who read the title and though “is this guy serious?”, yes, this is a poem about heavy metal in space. For this assignment, we were supposed […]

This is the “Remix a Song with some Speech” assignment from  the ds106 Audio Assignment Bank. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/remix-a-song-with-some-speech/ For this assignment we were required to take a song and some speech and remix them. It is supposed to be meaningful and convey a message. I picked the song “When I Was Your Man”, by Bruno Mars. However this version is … Continue reading Bruno Mars Feat. Ronald Reagan →

“Now that we have a #ds106 radio up and running creating a 15 to 30 second bumper for the station. What is a bumper? It is a short recording that identifies the radio station with signature music or an expression that makes sure the listeners know what they are tuned into. So for ds106 it […]

Everything is due July 19 by 11:59. Some of you have gotten a lot of things up and running and fixed by using the Digital Knowledge Center.  The University of Mary Washington’s Digital Knowledge Center provides peer tutoring to all University students on digital projects and assignments. Students can schedule 50 minute, one-one-one tutorials with a […]

So, first I read a bunch of stuff about techniques used in audio story telling. Then I listened to this story. After all that, what did I notice? The biggest […]

Assignment Link 2 stars I used audacity to record my greeting, at first I didn’t know what to say or what town to use for my greeting. I first decided to think of a town, again I thought back to my favorite series the Wheel of Time, and remembered a small town on a river … Continue reading Good Morning Whitebridge →

This week was definitely the most challenging by far.  I mean it wasn’t terrible but it took some work.  I enjoyed some of it though.  I think I completed the assignments pretty well but I definitely could have done better. … Continue reading →

Reflection on my activity for the week: For this weeks assignments I believe that I completed them well. Although I

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  As I looked for a good story to listen to I read the title looking for one that sounded interesting. I came upon link with the title Is There A Giant Life Form Lurking In Our Solar System? Possibly, Say Scientists This interested me, I have always been intrigued by science and fascinated by … Continue reading Audio Story – Getting away with it →

“This American Life”, is a web radio show. It features stories of people doing noble things and stepping up to help, only to find out that others think what they’re doing isn’t helping at all. Follow the link to hear it yourself: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/503/i-was-just-trying-to-help While listening closely to this radio show I was able to identify … Continue reading This American Life – Just Trying to Help →

After listening to Ira Glass and Jad Abumrad videos i feel like I understand the best ways to make a good story. Glass and Abumrad seemed to focus on different aspects of creating a story. Glass focused on the basics at first then went into more long term ways to create better story’s. Glass described two … Continue reading Audio Storytelling Reflection →

Week 3 Summary: Week 3 wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be. I feel I completed all the assignments very well. The Audio Assignments probably gave me the most trouble this week because this was the first time I have done something like this on a computer. It was hard to […]

May I Take Your Order? Description of Assignment: “Using your best accent (whether it be Australian, British or southern, ect), pretend you are at McDondalds and order something off of their menu. Be picky! For example, a coke with no ice.” The Story One day me and my friends went to McDonald’s and we knew the […]

Daily Create 1 Daily Create 2 Daily Create 3 Daily Create 4 Summary of Audio Story Audio Storytelling Summary Reflection on Comments/Posts Audio Tutorial Audio Assignment 1 Audio Assignment 2 What I learned This week I feel as if I … Continue reading →

This week was definitely uncharted territory for me since I have never really used audio software before. I learned how to use Audacity which took some time and looking at online tutorials but finally I got the hang of it. … Continue reading →

Todays daily create was to take an illustration of Ben Franklin and add one of the entries from Franklin’s Drinker Dictionary.

Week 3 Daily Create #4 (7/12) Franklin’s Drinkers Dictionary Inspiration: The Daily Create 1281 (7/12) Twitter Tweet Two Moons I chose to drew the Tun Tavern with two moons from Franklin’s Drinkers Dictionary where Ben Franklin loved to get a glass a beer at. I think the moons go well in the background of this brewery.    

I picked this one out from Franklin’s drinkers dictionary because I thought it would be funny to draw a person inside of a liquor bottle. There were many phrases that I thought were good ones to illustrate in the drinkers dictionary. However this one seemed the best choice to illustrate with my poor drawing skills.

For this audio assignment out of the DS106 Assignment Bank we were supposed to record glimpses of the different sounds that you  hear throughout the day. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/do-you-hear-what-i-hear/ Using the program Audacity, which I downloaded for this class, I created about a two minute recording of sounds you would hear around my house in the morning, including to the … Continue reading Do You Here What I Hear? →

Week Three’s Checklist/Summaries: Summarize the key points you learned about audio storytelling from the Ira Glass and Jad Abumrad videos. From listen to Ira Glass describe effective storytelling, I picked up on some key points. I learned that story telling consists of building blocks. Such as, a story should consists of a sequence of events, … Continue reading Week 3 Summary →

This assignment was to pick an audio story and listen to it.  The one I pick which was the “Why This Compulsion To Run Long Distances?’ A Runner’s Beautiful Confession” and I picked this one because I thought it would be entertaining because I just signed up to do a half marathon in November.  However […]

For this I had to watch some videos about these to guys as they told me about storytelling.  Their lessons can be applied to audio or any type of storytelling in my opinion.  Anyways let me tell you about the things that these two men started telling me.  First off was Ira Glass and he […]

What are those noises indeed?  Those noises are some of the typical noises I can hear during my normal day.  Yes, I know a good part of them is music but I list to a lot of music during the day.  Especially seeing that at the job I work 40 hours a week I listen […]