I like how to the point this poster is. I was unable to find the original post but I am assuming it was an assignment from the assignment bank. I also like that it still states happy Valentine ’s Day but takes the pressure away of making big commitments and things on valentine’s day. It […]

I liked this activity because the author put a personal touch to the show. They uploaded what they thought was important and relevant to the show. This was inspiring because this person was able to share their outside interest and incorporate it into their ds106 assignments. Looking at the original post it seems like they […]

Sharing Credit 4 Stars For this assignment you had to present a collaborative story via email among two people. To complete this assignment I worked alongside with Sahar and we send emails back and from our characters emails that we created for class this. My character Jeff had just posted an job ad online looking […]

This week were asked to complete 3 TDC’s. I completed Laughing aloud one where you were asked to post a video onto youtube about something that makes me laugh. I usually laugh whenever I am with my friends. So I posted a video with my friend Tiffany where we laughing about something I can’t remember. […]

This was an inspiring daily create to me because it is totally relatable. And for the longest time I thought it was just my computer or even just me because I was new to some of the applications we used in the class. It is nice to know you are not the only struggling with […]

One Story / Four Icons 2 1/2 Stars For this assignment you had to make a story about using four icons. I made this design project collaborative by illustrating Jeff’s story in icons and also Sahar’s character Sara! To make their story I used the Noun Project online to find icons. I then used PowerPoint […]

I thought this person did a really good job explaining the plot of the movie. I have seen this movie (actually one my favorites) and it is not easy to summarize a movie in 5 seconds. This post was inspiring because the student admits that initially they believed this was going to be easy but […]

This week was a little less hectic in ds106 compared to the last couple of weeks but it was still interesting. We finally finished our radio show; House of Noir. I really enjoyed the working in the group that I was in. We were a fun group but we also knew when it was time […]

We finished our radio show!!! (yay) Initially it was a little difficult to find a time that worked for everyone to meet in our group so we could discuss our plans for the show but we were finally able to figure everything out and I am very pleased with our final product. We created a […]

Comment 1 I liked the fear trailer daily create because I shared almost all the same fears. Comment 2 I like that this person used the noircat concept in space! Comment 3 I really liked the ideas this person had about their space craft Comment 4 I liked how this daily created looked with all […]

I was unfortunately only able to do 2 daily creates this week. I was having some difficulties uploading pictures to my flickr account because my yahoo account was hacked earlier this week. So I am hoping I am able to fix that soon but I changed the hues in this picture of my father. I […]

A hectic but exciting week in ds106! We finally made our radio show; House of Noir Logo Radio Show Week 1 For my audio assignments I got to use my newly acquired audacity skills. For my character Jeffrey Davidson I had a voice-mail and portrayed an emotions through sounds. I enjoyed these two assignments about […]

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So this week we created our radio show, House of Noir! My group includes Janaye, Janelle, Rhiannon and myself. To make communicating easier we made a Facebook group to share all of our ideas. Our radio show is a advice talk show. Where people call in and ask for advice. We are incorporating our character […]

This is the logo I made for our radio show, House of Noir. The other members of my group included people in their logos and I wanted to do something simple and to the point. So I got searched house on google and copied it to paint and added OF NOIR to the bottom. At […]

Make Your Own Ringtone - 1 1/2 Stars For this assignment you had to make your own ringtone using audacity. I used the intro of my three favorite songs Lost, I Lived, and How To Save a Life and cut and pasted them to make my ringtone. I wanted to make sure I did not […]

Imitate Some Weather - 1 1/2 Stars For this assignment you had to imitate the sound of some kind of weather. You could use your voice and things that were within arms reach for you. I chose to do the wind and rain. For the wind sounds I made a couple of long whoosh whoosh […]

Movie Voice Machines – 2 1/2 Stars For this assignment you had to create a voicemail for fictional character. I chose to make a voice-mail message for my character Jeffrey Davidson. I used sound cloud to record myself. I attempted to deepen my voice to sound like man (did not do the best job) and […]

Emotions Through Sounds – 3 Stars For this audio assignment you had to portray an emotion through sound effects. I chose to do this assignment for my character dossier Jeffrey Davidson. The story I was trying to tell though sound effects was when his mother died. I have mentioned in some of my earlier posts […]

Make Em’ Laugh – 1 1/2 Stars For this assignment you had to make a joke in another language other than your mother tongue. I decided to make a joke in Pahari the language that both my parents speak. Although I understand Pahari it is still difficult for me to speak it at times. I […]

This week our focus was everything audio. When I first watched the introduction video I realized what a difficult week this was going to be for me. Mostly because audio is something I have never really worked with, but I guess there is always a time to learn. The first thing I did this was […]

For the listening part of understanding audio storytelling I tuned into the ds106 radio on Thursday night. We listened to two pieces, in which one was an older story and one was a newer story. When I tuned in I was a little anxious because I wanted to make sure I didn’t miss anything and […]

One concept I have used for my character dossier is the Jerk with the heart of Gold concept that is conceptualized in Noir film. For a radio idea I was thinking maybe having a real Jerk with a heart gold on the show and people could call in and share experiences they have had with […]

1 1/2 Stars For this assignment you had to remove the vocals from one of your favorite songs so others can guess what the song is. I removed the vocals on audacity by using the inverse effect option.

2 1/2 stars For this assignment you had to reverse a song and give people 3 hints to guess the song. Hints 1.) This is song by a female pop singer 2.) It is about female empowerment and self love 3.) the song name is a synonym for ‘attempt’

3 1/2 stars For this assignment you had to create a story with nothing but sound affects and it also has to in someway relate to your character dossier. For my character Jeffrey I tried to make a short story about how his day at his day job at the bar started. I used freesound.org […]

For this assignment you had to create a bumper for the ds106 radio. I included background sound I found from freesound.org.

For this assignment you had to draw dots for international dot day! … I wrote out dots on a black canvas on paint for this daily create.

For this daily create you had to create or remix a song that could be used for a sitcom about your life. I used a song called London Thumakda for the movie Queen. Although this song is originally in Hindi I think it really described my life well. Briefly this song is about a young […]

This week our focus is audio in storytelling and more specifically the use of audio in noir. Audio is another form of communication that used to convey an idea or a thought. What I think makes audio storytelling interesting that it enhances the story. Last week we focused on the visual aspect of story telling […]