I chose to create a radio commercial in honor of my character, Mrs. Dean, who is a hardworking homesteader’s wife. She not only

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This week we had to design a poster/logo for our radio show. My group is doing a western news channel where we are going to cover breaking news in the old west! The name of our news channel is World Wide Western News. I found a pic on google of an old TV with a western […]

Week 7 is complete! This week we formed groups so we could develop our own our own radio show. In order to do this we are having to implement many things we have learned throughout this course such as using audio editing software, design techniques to create useful promotional ads for our show, use sound … Continue reading Week 7 Summary

Week seven we were introduced to the radio show project and much of this weeks work revolved around this. I was a little stressed about trying to find a group but ended up getting in one with 5 other girls and we names our group The Gals of the West! From the start we got … Continue reading Week Seven: 2/26/16

This week we learned that we would be forming groups to create our own show/story for our class radio station, ds106 radio. The first task in this process was to find other members of the class to form a group. So, I decided to send out an email to several class members. I chose to … Continue reading Our Radio Show in the making!

I was having a really rough day so I decided to take a trip from LA all the way to Paris… because WHY NOT?!#tdc150 pic.twitter.com/ZbQ0o2FCpW — Maria Rivas (@marsbars610) February 25, 2016 #Ariel #and #i #dancing #through #life #tdc1506 @d...

Once again I used freephototool.com to create my image! I simply overlaid text onto a background image of some western travelers. I loved the background image I found due to its simplicity and natural color tones. I really liked the idea of a “coming soon” poster, as since our radio show is still in production I … Continue reading "Radio Show Promo"

This week was all about audio, design and coming up with a radio show. It was a lot of work and the radio show is nowhere near done but I did do a lot of fun things this week. First up, surprise, three daily creates! 2/21: Create our own words of wisdom poster like Loesje. … Continue reading Weekly Summary 2/19 – 2/26

For today’s daily create we had to go on this website called Soundtransit and create our own soundtransit trip. This consisted of selecting cities and layovers. I selected to go from Washington D.C to San Salvador with 2 layover that consisted of New York and Berlin. This was easy to do and then I took screen shot of my […]

It has been difficult. I wasn’t able to give my full attention to the group and the ideas that everyone had. I’m really excited for the outcome but I think this assignment just fell on a bad week (I know, excuses, excuses). It’s difficult working with other people and not being physically present to share … Continue reading "Radio Show Progress"

This is our first week working on the radio show and I think we got a lot hammered out. Our group is named the Gals of the West and consists of 6 of our characters and they take on a murder mystery! We used Google doc to spitball ideas and come up with who is … Continue reading Progress Report

So far, my groups project has been going great! I am apart of the group, The Gals of the West, and we decided to do a western murder mystery called Turning Tumbleweeds. At first we were torn between either doing one big plot revolving around one murder and then having each character talk about their … Continue reading Turning Tumbleweeds

Here is my radio show poster that I designed for our groups show! It was fairly simple to make once I found the right background that I wanted to use. I used the website canva.com to create this and started a new project. I chose my background from google, and then chose the font. I … Continue reading Design Poster

Washington D.C –> Berlin –> Barcelona –> Melbournehttps://t.co/969WBpvzSj pic.twitter.com/nXUNmFxpvF — Jenna Steele (@jsteele_ds106) February 24, 2016

It's 1:06pm and I'm out of coffee 😔 #ds106 #dailycreate #tdc1507 pic.twitter.com/z73DaD8K3E — Jenna Steele (@jsteele_ds106) February 23, 2016

#My #face #right #now #because #spring #break #is #this #FRIDAY! #ds106 #dailycreate #tdc1506 pic.twitter.com/VOo7j6G9gx — Jenna Steele (@jsteele_ds106) February 22, 2016    

My character is a loving wife and mother of three. That’s when I created  a radio bumper  for her, I made

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  Just made my poster for the radio show! It took me a surprisingly long time to find a background

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2/23/16 Tonight we met in a Convergence Center conference room on campus to plan out our radio show. We constructed

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This week has been really great/stress-free so far, so I am super pleased! It all started Friday when a few

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For my radio show advertisement, I chose to create a poster. I wanted it to be informative, yet still pleasing

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For this assignment (1.5 stars), we had to create a McDonalds order and make it picky! This was funny to make, and also took some creativity. My friends and I always love a good trip to McDonalds so this assignment was right up my alley. I had my roommate voice the McDonalds worker, and I did … Continue reading How may I take your order?

This week we were required to complete 10 stars worth of audio assignments. In order to fulfill part of this requirement I completed this assignment. For this assignment I was to create a short audio clip acting like I was going through a drive through at McDonalds and I had to use a certain accent. … Continue reading What is your order?

I was sifting through the audio assignment bank and found this assignment. I thought it would be fun to put together five songs from one of my favorite artists. I decided to choose Edvin Marton. His music is not what I generally listen to but, I am a figure skater and his music is very … Continue reading Greatest Hits!

For this assignment, we had to create a 911 call and we were also for the week required to do 5 stars of assignments involving our characters so I decided to do a 911 call from Agnus. It was about a car accident that happened outside her house just outside the town of Tombstone, AZ. … Continue reading 911, what’s your emergency?

For this assignment, we had to create a commercial for a business or product. I decided to create one for the saloon that is in our radio show and promote burger night on Monday’s! In order to complete the assignment, I used Audacity and youtube. I downloaded the background music from youtube and then imported … Continue reading Beer & Burger Mondays!

Made this DS106 radio bumper for our group, Gals of the West! Pretty easy to do this go around, considering

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For this assignment I had my character Sally voice a commercial for a cleaning product she uses. It was once her clean, pristine saloon’s well kept cleaning secret that is now out for sale at her saloon, Tumbleweed. Made with her secret cleaning ingredients, Sally claims that it cleans anything and everything! Listen below to … Continue reading SCRUB-A-DUB-BUB

For this assignment my character Sally “Shot” talks about her daily life and what she does. It’s nothing too fancy as she puts it. She talks about getting up and ready for work but not until the kids are in school since she works late into the night most nights. She talks about what she … Continue reading Shot’s life

I did the assignment where you create a radio ad for a product a character in your favorite show. One of my

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