I decided to choose the assignment where we had to pick a digital tool and give a brief tutorial on how to use it and what you can do with it (3.5 stars). I have one sight that I use basically for everything when I don’t want to fight with Photoshop on my Macbook. Its ...

As the evening came to an end, I decided to go out and take my horse, Ginger for a ride and clear my head. This is usually where I do most of my thinking and let the stress of the day float away. All I could think about is the writing assignment that I had ...

This week I completed the radio show, you can view the progress here: ds106 Radio talk show progress   And hear the radio show here: The real deal! And see my tweets of the week here: tweet tweet: week 7   How did your week 7 go?!

This week we had finish our radio shows. I uploaded my groups through soundcloud after editing it through audacity. You can view the process here. Here is our talk show! I hope you enjoy!!

Week 7 was an interesting week. The group had to come together to get the radio show done and we managed to make it work by the deadline. This wasn’t an easy process to say the least. We wound up agreeing on a topic when we met Sunday evening and set up another meeting for ...

Tweets for week 7! This week we were only required to do 2 daily creates, but I decided to do 3! Have I mentioned to anyone that I have a severe addiction to fabrics? My collection constantly grows! @ds106dc #tdc1735 I college fabric. My collection has grown up white cabinet is full. 😬😛 pic.twitter.com/7mC5ODBxfn — ...

This week was fun- mainly because we dealt with more audio editing with audacity. Here are all my assignments in audacity this week totaling 10 stars: What my day sounds like.. B-Flat. Fear of rain Some of these were a lot easier than others and all of them helped me get more experience under my ...

Tweets for week 6! One of my most favorite things in the world in a gif: COFFEE! @ds106dc #tdc1731 pouring coffee 😛 pic.twitter.com/SmEg47UbMs — Amber (@amberrlynn0810) October 5, 2016 Can you find a concrete poem for what you represent as silence? Mine is a raindrop. SSSSHHHH! @ds106dc #tdc1733 silence for me is rain. A concrete ...

For this assignment I had to edit sounds into audacity to show an emotion. We were required to mash up at least 4 sounds to achieve this. I chose to create someone who has a fear of rain. I started by making the sound of a storm. I used http://freesound.org to find the sound of rain and ...

This week I created a bumper sticker for the ds106 Radio talk show. This was by far the easiest assignment I had this week. I decided to use this website to create my bumper sticker and make it my own. They had a lot of predesigns with a lot of details on them. Once you chose what ...

This week has been a new experience. I’ve never been required to work in an group based on an online class for something like this radio show. I find that sometimes its hard to work with people you have never met and don’t know their personality. This week I have learned that communication is key. ...

I’m sure you’re starting to read this blog post and thinking “great. Someone else did this incredibly easy assignment because it was rated 4.5 stars and they’re getting away with it.” For me, this was anything but easy and I still didn’t get it the way I really wanted it. So I will explain my ...

For this assignment (worth 3 stars) I had to record sounds of what I’ve heard throughout my day. There were some that I wish I would have recorded in time (boom of the quarry near my house was atrocious today). For the process of this, I started with my iPhone 7. This is what I ...

This week was fun. We got to experiment with several different design elements, some of which were a little challenging but not as challenging as last week. As always, we had our daily challenges. The hardest one was finding an app to add speech blimps to a photo of my dog! They don’t have many ...

The Vignelli Canon was a really good read. In this blog post, I will touch base and reflect on what I found to the most meaningful and interesting aspects of his writing. One of the things I pulled from this article was the very first point, semantics. You have to have understanding of what you are ...

I had to do another designblitz assignment using photos and relate them to elements of photography such as color, typography, metaphors/symbols, minimalism & use of space, form/function/message, balance, rhythm, proportion, dominance, and unity. Of these I chose: Proportion: I feel this is an effective photo for proportion because you can see where the main focus is in relation to other objects. There is great visual ...

This week I tweeted more than required.. I’m trying to get more into the habit of using twitter every day! Kitty toys make the perfect face! #tdc1721 @ds106dc kitty toys face! 🐱 pic.twitter.com/FD2mJbWNJg — Amber (@amberrlynn0810) September 25, 2016 This week Miss Bailey quoted Spock! Her rain boots are just SO unbearable! @ds106dc #tdc1724 #ds106 ...

I chose to make an avatar of myself this week! I’ve made them before on the computer for a game (The Sims) and whenever playing xbox. But I’ve never made one just because. This was as good of a time as ever to try! I used this avatar creator site to make one. It was free and ...

For this assignment I chose, I had to create a wordcloud (not to be confused with soundcloud!) relating to what I have learned from ds106 thus far. This was fairly simple to do but finding a program to actually work was challenging. I decided to use Wordclouds to do this. I got to enter my words and ...

While reading the chapter “Think Process, Not Product” I gained a lot of insight on sharing what I create. This works in more ways of life than just written work. I have a personal sewing business and create my own clothing. I used to share my process, from the beginning to the end. I see how ...

This week I chose the assignment where we had to create a logo that was detailed but yet simple at the same time. I found this interesting because I have my own sewing business and used it as an opportunity to potentially revamp my public image! I used free logo services to create my personal logo. It ...

For this assignment I had to find a photo from my favorite movie and add a quote from the movie onto the photo. I decided to use an app on my phone called WordSwag. Its fairly simple to use. You pick your photo, crop it down if you want it cropped and then enter your wording. ...

This week was really fun for me. I found out that I really don’t mind audio editing and found it pretty fun actually. Audacity was a lot easier to use than it seemed when I first opened it. I was very intimidated at first. I used the pitch editing a lot and deleted a lot ...

For this assignment, I was required to create a radio bumper for our ds106 radio station. I don’t really have a radio voice so I adjusted the pitch in audacity to make it sound a little more pleasing than my normal voice does. I recorded straight through audacity and moved the clip to where I wanted it in ...

This assignment is rather similar to my last but was fun to do! I had to have a telephone conversation with myself and change the pitch and other effects to make it sound like I was talking to someone that wasn’t me on the other end. I will say that this was very awkward to ...

Brainstorming ideas for a talk show was actually a little harder than I thought it would be. I mean, what can you talk about that would keep peoples attention for about 30 minutes and make them want to listen? AND come back the next time you air to listen again!? Some ideas I came up ...

There are many ways that sounds drives stories, and a lot of it I just learned this week (or more so it was just brought to my realization). When you aren’t able to watch something, the sound is what makes the story. It leads your mind to make its own scenes and scenarios to go ...

For this assignment I had to record a 911 phone call. There weren’t really any stipulations aside from having two different voices. I didn’t really have anyone handy at the time I was creating this so I decided to play with audacity and change the pitch of my own voice and create what sounds like 2 different ...

This week I was given the challenge of creating my own short story with only sounds. No words were to be spoken. Luckily I was given the link to an awesome website with a lot of sound effect resources and you can find that resource here. Next I had to brainstorm what I wanted to do for my ...

    This week I had to participate in a live “tweet along.” It was definitely a cool experience. I started my live tweet along on Wednesday night- it ran Monday-Thursday from 9-10pm. My first night listening I was a little behind because I didn’t start on Monday. I didn’t know that it was a ...