I thought I would combine my daily creates for the week here, since they weren’t really challenging enough to warrant

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I completed celebrity speed dating. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/celebrity-speed-dating/   Back in 2008 I read a book by a physician, Dr. Esselstyn. The initial reason as to why I read that book is due to my father. He’s a physician who worked at the Cleveland Clinic with Esselstyn, and he told me to read it. So I did. […]

This assignment has us create an in theme radio bumper for ds106 radio. Before starting the project, I made sure

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Daily Creates for Week 5 I would invent a self-cleaning room tool cuz who doesn’t hate cleaning. It would sell for $500 #tdc1493 #dailycreate pic.twitter.com/x96A1erwdu — Christina Gaul (@chrissy_gaul) February 10, 2016 #ds106 #tdc1494 #dailycreate Mary Wash Express…Postage by eagle! pic.twitter.com/AxwSLpG6BF — Christina Gaul (@chrissy_gaul) February 11, 2016 #ds106 #tdc1496 #dailycreate The movie Cowboys and […]

We could make a talk show like program with different ‘western’ guests. Maybe an incident happened the day before the program ‘airs.’ All of the guests could have a little input on what went on from their perspective. We could also have some of those guests just go on tangents. The guests can be anyone […]

This monologue came out of an assignment that had you read something overdramatically. In order to do this, I looked through an archive of monologues and found this one from “The Chocolate Affair” by Stephanie Alison Walker. It sounded like something I could really get into, so I went ahead and gave it a try. I … Continue reading The Daily Grind →

This is a westernized reading of “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe in accordance with this assignment, which asks us to read something with this accent. Hopefully I don’t sound too southern in the mix. Sometimes I get carried away. Putting this together was an adventure. I had to reread this a lot of times … Continue reading Quote the Raven →

This little conversation was inspired by an assignment that had you record a conversation with yourself. I chose to do a sort of grandmother-in-law and granddaughter-in-law phonecall based around a scene reminiscent of the Old West and old world views. In this phonecall the two women argue about Madeline’s role as a woman and their … Continue reading Dorothy and Madeline →

For a reminder, my character, Mrs. Dean, is a homesteader’s wife. She works hard with her husband in their fields

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Hmmmmm brainstorming ideas?!?! I don’t really have set in stone what I want to do yet, but I do have

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This week was definitely the toughest yet. However, it was also the most rewarding! First off, I finally logged back

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This assignment was a little more complex, but once I figured out it, I definitely didn’t mind it. When I

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This assignment was super funny. I mixed one of my favorite set of lyrics: “Mine Would Be You” by Brad

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I listened to my first radio show tonight and have to say I was impressed. It looks like a lot of hard work goes into it. So for my idea for a radio show I was thinking of something maybe along the lines of a villain riding on a train traveling in the west and […]

Once I got the hang of Audacity, this was really easy to do, thank goodness! 103.9 is my favorite radio

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For my last assignment bank post of the week I had to do sound effects story. For this post we had to use Audacity and sounds from Freesound to tell a story less that 90 seconds of our western character. My story starts with the rooster on the ranch in the morning, followed by bob taking […]

This week was interesting. I wasn’t really sure what to expect and was stressed about having to work with audio. One, because I had no idea how to navigate audacity or any form of editing software and two, because I HATE the sound of my voice on video or any recording. But at the end, … Continue reading Week Five: 2/12/16

I decided to complete the audio reflection assignment at the end of all my works week so that I had a better idea of what audio storytelling was. At the beginning of the week I was stressing about doing all the audio assignments because I thought they would be so hard and not my cup … Continue reading Audio Thoughts

So when I was reading the Weekly Assignments, I saw that we had to listen to the radio show and I was honestly a little worried. I thought it might be cheesy and maybe a little boring and man was I wrong! (and happy to be too!) I really liked listening to the stories and … Continue reading "I Tried DS106 Radio and I Liked It"

My last daily create instructed you to create a treasure map. Didn’t really know what to do for this so I went on Google and saved a picture of a blank map. After this, I uploaded it to paint and added on the little tornado, trees, etc. Yes, I draw with paint like a four year […]

Tonight from 9-10PM I participated in the DS106 radio tweet-along. At 9PM I tuned in to the radio station. What we had to do was tweet comments about the show as it went. Earlier today I was announced a winner of a contest sponsor by Doritos so my Twitter acquired many new followers today so I […]

I was first inclined to write out an entire skit for this Western radio show, but I then had the idea to come up with different segments that could be featured on the show. First off, it would be cool to see present radio segments become accommodating to the West. By this I mean turn […]

I am not the most creative person in the world, and I have a hard time trying to come up with fun and interesting ideas for anything. So I’ve been sitting here for 30 minutes trying to brainstorm ideas for the radio show project and I started to think to myself what I think of … Continue reading Radio Show Ideas

This week was a bit more challenging for me. While I consider myself pretty technically savvy, audio is an area

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So for this assignment, while it might be cheesy, I chose Hall & Oates song You Make My Dream Come True Listen here about why I love the song so much! I had a lot of fun choosing a song, but in the end it came down to this one just because of how it … Continue reading "You Make My Dreams Come True"

Here are my Daily Creates for this week! The first prompt asked us to make up a new western saying: To which @dogtrax replied with a really cool comic: The second prompt asked us to make up a Pony Express postmark: And finally, the third one was to make a treasure map:

So for this assignment, we had to create a story using ONLY sound effects. At first, I was a little worried about it, but once I started thinking about it, I had a pretty good time. My original idea was kind of a horror but I adapted it to fit into my character Marlene’s story. … Continue reading "Marlene’s Bad Day"

I thought this assignment was HILARIOUS!!! When I saw it I knew I had to do it. The hardest part was matching

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Lol so the title is from the song “Springsteen” by Eric Church…not the song I chose to do for this assignment,

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