Seuss it Take a Dr. Seuss book, or perhaps the Berenstain Bears, or one of your own favorites, and read it to us. Give me your best Yertle the Turtle, or Lorax, or Mama Bear and have fun! This is a 3 star assignment For this assignment I picked Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham.  This book has always ...

Here are 4 media I have not yet used in assignments. 1. This file is called makingagiftake1ds106. This file is from week 2 from where we had to make a gif.  I did not end up using this gif because it was not exactly the way I wanted it to turn out.  After figuring out how to ...

Make ‘em Laugh Find a good, brief joke in a language other than your mother tongue; if you don’t know any other languages this might be a good way to start learning. Record your voice telling the joke focusing on pronunciation and try to make it sound as natural as you can with appropriate vocal ...

I have listened to autotuned sounds many times before, I wanted to do it. Therefore I decided to do this assignment; to do this project I first saw a tutorial in YouTube. Here is the link to it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx97oLyph4M&feature=related I then used Audacity to record my voice and auto tune it, I first record my ...

The theme for our group radio show is Halloween therefore I chose to use horror sound effects for my radio bumper. The ambience sound effect, nightmare sound effect, thunderstorm sound effect, horror scream sound effect, studio rat scream sound effect, and a horror theme song were used for making this bumper. Each sound effect was ...

This assignment was to tell a joke in a language other than one’s mother tongue; I decided to do a joke in Indian language. I found the joke from Google; I then find some laughter sound effects from http://www.freesound.org. I used Audacity for this audio, which was easy and fun to do.  

Make Your Own Ringtone Using Audacity, trim, join end-to-end (cut/paste), and/or play side-by-side audio files in order to create your very own ringtone. Ringtones should be a maximum or 40 seconds to conserve phone memory (besides, most cell phones don’t ring longer than 30 seconds or so…the extra 10 seconds is just in case). Be ...

For my last Audio Assignment, I’m going with Voice Morphing! In Audacity, I just recorded my ‘joke’ and then changed the pitch and the speed right in Audacity.  There wasn’t much to the actual changing of my voice, but I thought the deeper voice would make it a little bit more silly than a high ...

For my third assignment, I’m going with a three star assignment called Sound Effects Story.  I believe I worked on something similar to this assignment in a previous blog post, but I thought that I’d go ahead and do a different sound effects story since I had fun with it last time. Using Freesound.org, I ...

Mainstream Chipmunkd’ The object of this assignment is to take a mainstream artist and chipmunk them. As we reflect on our childhoods we realize that all the chipmunks were an awesome bunch and it is really easy to do this assignment. All you need is any kind of musical editing software like MIXXX and Virtual ...

This is my first attempt at a 4 star assignment – A Life in Two Minutes.  When I saw this one though, I realized that it was definitely something that I could do.  I recorded my story on my SoundCloud app on my iPhone and then uploaded it.  It was probably one of the easier ...

For my Make Your Own Ringtone assignment, I’m going with The Nightmare Before Christmas ringtone.  I actually used two different versions of this song to create my own ringtone.  I actually uploaded this to my phone and am going to use it for my ringtone since I love this movie so much.  Since I always ...

To make this ringtone I used my favorite jazz tune called Sing Sing by Benny Goodman which is from Swing jazz era and mixed it with a pop Indian song. I used audacity for editing these two tunes; since the Jazz tune was louder than Indian pop song; I used envelope tool to trim the ...

The first song I learned was Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in elementary school. I was really obsessed with Indian songs. So when I was asked to learn this song in school, I tried to sing it like Indian songs. I downloaded the English version and Indian version from YouTube; here is the link respectfully http://www.youtube.com/user/hooplakidz?v=xKFRSIBP8pA ...

Why hello there, ds106!!  It’s good to see you! 3 papers, 2 days of the Poverty Conference, and 1 MILLION other things to do equals 0 time for the fun stuff. Thankfully, I was able to read through the material for this week and get a jump start on thinking about and working on the ...

Radio Show Contribution: Seniorritis106 Daily Creates: DailyCreate Design Assignments: Assignments Design Safari: DesignSafari Week Six has definitely been a challenge when it came to the Design Assignments. I don’t know if this is just me, but I wish that more students or the creators of the assignments would post up some damn tutorials!! As I’ve ...