Absolute WORST Sounds

Absolute WORST Sounds

by @BegaKayla

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2140, Syndicated
February 28, 2020

Another assignment that I created from the assignment bank was called “Auditory Hell”. This challenged us to create a sound involving multiple of our worst favorite sounds. I also used garage band for this because it was easier to mash together all of the sound effects. This was hard for me because I literally cringed …
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Time to Relax

by @BegaKayla

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2142, Syndicated
February 28, 2020

For one of my assignments from the assignment bank this week I chose “All the Relaxation”. This assignment challenged us to put together a piece containing some of the sounds that we find most relaxing and could listen to for hours on end. I decided to use garage band since that is the audio editor …
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Introducing The Scrunchies

by @BegaKayla

| radioshowpromo, Syndicated
February 27, 2020

One of our assignments for this week was to create a logo design for our radio channel. I made this simple yet elegant logo design at Tailor Brands where creating a logo is super easy and you can customize it in any way that you’d like. We chose to do our radio channel on the …
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Week 6 Down

by @BegaKayla

| Syndicated
February 21, 2020

This week we focused on Design and how certain elements may make or break a picture. I started off the week doing my daily creates which I found to be very exciting and I learned a lot of new techniques. After this I posted my reflection to the Brain Pickings Article. I found this assignment …
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Design Blitz

by @BegaKayla

| designblitz, Syndicated
February 20, 2020

This week we were challenged to carry around our phones and take pictures of signs that we saw. I feel that at first I was being too picky about what signs I decided to take a picture of so I decided to take one walk from my house to my classroom at school and use …
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Be My Valentine?

by @BegaKayla

| designassignments, DesignAssignments1619, Syndicated
February 20, 2020

For my last design assignment from the assignment bank I chose to create a valentines day card. I chose to do this with a twist including our class theme of the 80’s. For this assignment I used Canva since I already had some previous experience using it. I selected a template that already existed, deleted …
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80’s License Plate

by @BegaKayla

| designassignments, designassignments1645, Syndicated
February 20, 2020

For this assignment from the assignment bank I chose to design my own license plate. I wanted to make this 80’s themed to fit our overall class them. As you can tell this is not your average license plate. Instead of a bright or pearly white as the background I decided to use a more …
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Bega’s Bagels

by @BegaKayla

| designassignments, DesignAssignments1758, Syndicated
February 20, 2020

For my next assignment from the assignment bank I chose to create my own logo. This was super fun for me! I have always been a coffee and bagel lover so why not create my own little shop. For this design I also decided to use Canva as my design platform. This website/app is super …
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Here Comes the Bride

by @BegaKayla

| designassignments, designassignments1750, Syndicated
February 20, 2020

For one of my projects from the assignment bank this week I chose to design my wedding invitation. I chose this assignment for many reasons. Mainly, like a lot of people I have dreamed about my wedding since a little girl. Pinterest boards, girl talk, watching weddings, and everything in between. I also chose this …
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This Weeks Creativity

by @BegaKayla

| Syndicated
February 19, 2020

This week we were challenged again to complete 3 daily creates. As always, I found these very enjoyable. Most of them didn’t take longer than 5 minutes and I even got to draw some this week! The first daily create that I got to do was find out what colors my name was. This was …
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Into the World of Design

by @BegaKayla

| designthoughts, Syndicated
February 18, 2020

Immediately the Brain Pickings article got me thinking about how everything around me is specifically created. Even if we may not think about it all the time, there is always a reasoning behind the design of a building, a toy, a product, etc. I think about a good coffee mug, the design is what makes …
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Week 5 Down

by @BegaKayla

| Syndicated
February 14, 2020

This week was a STRUGGLE. At first even just looking at the assignments for this week gave me anxiety. I have never been good using software and I was so paranoid I’d never finish all of the work. I started off with the daily creates since I had already known how to do those. These …
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80’s Radio Show Ideas

by @BegaKayla

| #radioshowideas, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

80’s Radio Game Show: Quiz show? Jeopardy?Food: 80s recipes? Foods making a comeback? What new foods should we try?Relationships in the 80’s: How would relationships in the 80’s compare to relationships now? Talk Show Beauty and Fash...
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Jazzing Up a Quote

by @BegaKayla

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2141, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

For my last assignment I decided to choose one called “Quote With A New Feeling”. For this assignment we were challenged to take a quote and pair it with a song in the background. I wanted to make this 80’s theme to fit our class. I chose the quote “To me, obligation is not love. …
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These are a few of my favorite things (sounds)

by @BegaKayla

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2146, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

For another one of my picks out of the assignment bank I chose to do “A collection of your favorite sounds”. This one was super fun! I thought of a list of my favorite things and then what sounds I could use to portray them. I used a number of different free sound banks but …
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80’s Pogo Ball Commercial

by @BegaKayla

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2479, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

From the assignment bank I chose to do an assignment called “80’s Product Radio Commercial”. This assignment was easy for me because I had just learned how to use Audacity and could find sounds easily. I started by looking through a list of products that were popular during the 80’s. After picking the Pogo Ball …
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Live Tweet-Along Reaction

by @BegaKayla

| ds106radio, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

This week we were challenged to participate in a live tweet along while listening to the DS 106 radio show. This one proved very challenging for me as listening in on the background noises and musics made me not focus on the words and actual plot of the story. The audio drama that aired the …
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Sound Effects Story

by @BegaKayla

| #AudioAssignments, #AudioAssignments70, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

I found this assignment to be super fun yet challenging. As I said earlier, I have very little experience when it comes to audio recording and softwares. In fact I hate hearing myself talk and can’t work a computer to save my life. A bonus for me was that I could just use sound effects …
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Sound Creates Mood

by @BegaKayla

| #audioreflection, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

Most people when they think of audio or movies they think big picture and the loudest sounds. Maybe even only the words that are coming out of someones mouth. I’d like to argue that the background sounds are really what makes the story complete. These sounds usually tell you the mood of the story by …
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Radio Show Bumper

by @BegaKayla

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments36, radiobumper, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

This week one of our assignments was to create a radio bumper introducing our local DS 106 radio show. This assignment was very challenging to be at first because I know very little about audio software and editing. I first watched a few videos on how to use Audacity which I will link below and …
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Daily Creates Week 5

by @BegaKayla

| Syndicated
February 12, 2020

This week we were challenged to do 3 daily creates. Like always, these seem to amaze me in the ways that we can take simple tasks and turn them into creative thinking. It really got me thinking about symbolism this week and how things in our lives can often be put in categories.
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Week 4 is in the books!!

by @BegaKayla

| Syndicated
February 7, 2020

This week was fun, I definitely love taking pictures but never knew much about them. This week has made me look more closely at how I photograph things and how they can tell a story to the person seeing them I started off by examining photos that I take and reflecting on my experience in …
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How Can Photos Tell A Story?

by @BegaKayla

| ds106photography, Syndicated
February 7, 2020

After Reading all of the assigned articles I am going to share a few of my thoughts here: Background: The Background of a picture can really tell a story. In reading the article on the best street photography it became very apparent that the background displayed the environment and put together the entire context of …
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Blitz Fun

by @BegaKayla

| #photoblitz, Syndicated
February 7, 2020

Welcome to my photo blitz! At first I was very confused with this assignment but upon talking to others in the class I decided it could be fun! (1) Confusion- Take a picture of confusion: Here’s a picture of my friend Emily when she was confused about an assignment. HCC doesn’t have the best lighting …
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Pop Star Out of Place 80’s edition (3 and 1/2 stars)

by @BegaKayla

| Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments1752
February 7, 2020

For this assignment I chose to use 80’s icon Cyndi Lauper and put her on a stage that she is not quite used to singing on, Disney World! First I took a picture of her and traced it to create a cut out that I could then paste on top of another picture. Here is …
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Need to do now!! (Bucket List- 2 stars)

by @BegaKayla

| Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments1759
February 7, 2020

Welcome to my bucket list! For this I used Powerpoint to create a template where I could label my photos and display them in a pleasing manner. After making it I simply took a screenshot and embedded it into this post. I would love to go skydiving sometime (I almost went last year but it …
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Can You Guess What It is- 80’s addition (That’s Not What I Expected- 3 stars)

by @BegaKayla

| Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments1882
February 7, 2020

Can you guess what it is? Leave me a comment guessing what it is and I’ll let you know if you’re correct. Think 80’s! For this I had an extremely hard time focusing my camera and actually found it more beneficial to use Snapchat ...
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Just Keep Being Creative (Week 4)

by @BegaKayla

| Syndicated
February 7, 2020

Here are my daily creates for this week: Hope you enjoy them!! The first daily create that I did this week asked us what type of ice cream flavor we would be. Instead of being biased and giving myself mint chocolate chip because it’s my absolute favorite I decided to take a quiz that one …
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The Birdhouse Bunch (We’re the real life Brady bunch -3 stars)

by @BegaKayla

| Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments1921
February 5, 2020

These are my amazing roommates! We have only all lived together since this past June but we all love going on adventures together and just having a blast. For this assignment I actually used Powerpoint as my “editor of choice” because ...
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A not so experienced photo taker

by @BegaKayla

| photoreflection, Syndicated
February 3, 2020

I would say that I take a lot of pictures now, none of which are done professionally or with a ton of attention to detail. I love pictures for a number of reasons, one of which is I can try and capture a moment to the best of my ability. Yes, if it was a …
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