Visual Assignment 3 – 9/20/15
Here is the link to the visual assignment: Link Number of the stars: 3.5 Here is the photo that I made:
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Weekly Summary #4
The week is done! I’m usually excited for the upcoming week at this point on Sunday nights but right now I’m just glad to be done. It was a long week and week # 4’s assignments didn’t help make it any shorter, but I will say that I enjoyed myself most of the time and … Continue reading Weekly Summary #4 -
Big Old Girl From Carolina
Oh Dear…. So there’s this assignment. I really did not like doing it. It was simple to do but its always awkward when you wait until Sunday night to do an assignment and you’re spending the night at your girlfriends house. It’s also especially awkward when your girlfriends parents can probably hear you singing the … Continue reading Big Old Girl From Carolina -
Week 4 Daily Create 4.0!
Five Card Story: Construction to Inventor a Five Card Flickr story created by Adam Hoff flickr photo by Serenae flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by capohanka This story starts out at a piano bar at the Fan Gallery where two construction workers were talking about ideas … Continue reading → -
On “Talking to Machines”
Radiolab’s “Talking to Machines” used audio very effectively to convey its story. Various techniques are used throughout the production, most notably the use of overlapping voices to maintain a steady momentum to the story. Sound effects and music were used… Continue Reading → -
Video Reflections
Ira Glass talks about two main points in Part 1 of the podcast which where he talks about “the anecdote” and then there is the second main point which is “moment of reflection”. Podcast usually have one or the other, rarely will anyone have both. He talks about how broadcasting is different from regular story […] -
Listening to Stories
For the Listening to Stories assignment, I chose to listen to Talking to Machines by Radio Lab. In it, they talk about the fine line between what is considered a machine, and what is considered to be alive. And about how some people are fooled into thinking that robots are actual human beings. Also, Radio … Continue reading → -
Weekly Summary 4
Summarize the key points you learned about audio storytelling from the Ira Glass and Jad Abumrad videos. The first part of this weeks assignments included learning about audio storytelling from the perspective of Ira Glass ad Jad Abumrad. Ira Glass starts off by saying it’s important to notice the building blocks of a story and … Continue reading Weekly Summary 4 → -
Visual Assignment 2 – 9/20/15
Here is the link to the visual assignment: Link Number of stars: 3.5 Here is the photo I created:
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Weekly Showcase
WelcomeToWeek4Showcase…. YourGuideForThisWeekIsIDennis…. ThisGloriousWeekIsFilledWithVisualTidBits…. SubmissionsOfVisualContentAppeaseMyEyes… IShallPresentMyMostLovedFiveInAnAnthologyOfGreatness… TheFirstTantalizingPieceIsAPostFromTheAdventureInNoir… RedIsQuiteThePowerColor… JulyDisplayedHerRoomsPowerInThisPicture… TheDescriptionOfHerVisionAlongWithExecutionOfTechnique… QuiteAWorkOfArt… FollowingUpJuly’sWorkOfArtIsAnApperanceFromKanye… AaronDykeCreatedAPictureOfKanyeWestAndAQuote… GreatnessIsRareHoweverKanyeIsGreat… TheKnowledgeOfGreatnessPermittedAWonderfulQuotedPhotoToComeIntoBeing…. ThePictureAndQuoteCombinePerfectlyMakingATastyPost… TheThirdPostThatMadeThisAnthology… FoodIsEssentialToLife… NoraPostedAnAlphabetMadeOfHealthyFood… BurstingWithColorAndAssumedTaste… NoraCreatedAPostThatIsInformativeAndVisuallyAppealing… WeReturnForTheFourthPieceOfTheShowcase… AaronPostedAnAnimalCombination… TheWeaknessOfDolphinsWasStrategicallyCoveredInThisPost… AaronCombinedADolphinAndGiraffeToCreateASuperAnimal… TheSatirePleasesMe… TheFinalPostThatMadeTheCut… ATrulyTerrifyingMoment… JamesUsesAnOldPhoneAndCapturesAHorrificMoment… ASpiritVisitedHisPhoneCreatingAParanormalPicutre… ThisWeekWasFilledWithGreat… PostsWereMany… TheseFiveCreatedMyMostLovesFromThisWeek… AGreatBunchOfVisuals -
Weekly Summary: Four
This week was definitely crazy as I learned so much about audio storytelling. As I mentioned in some of my blog posts earlier this week, I was not looking forward to recording my voice and using audio techniques. Like a lot of people, I don’t like the sound of my own voice, but I quickly […] -
Summary of Week Four
WEEK FOUR COMPLETE! How well do you feel you completed the requirements of week 4 assignments? I feel very confident about my completion of week… -
Sound Effect Story
For this audio assignment I had to find 5 different sound effects online and put them together to make a story. I called my story “Revenge of the Dogs” because I based it off of the song “Who Let the Dogs Out?”. Before I give anything else away, here is my sound effect story: I … Continue reading Sound Effect Story -
Assignment #3
Here is assignment number three called Sound Effects Story which is worth three and a half stars. I had to tell a story using only audio sounds, so this is a story on how to tune your guitar(E A D G B and E Strings). Here are the steps on how make this audio assignment: Go to Week 4 of -
Daily Create 9/20/2015
For this daily create, we had to make another 5-card story! This was easy since we have already done them! I created a story about a Halloween party I hosted. #tdc1351: Five Card Story My Five Card Flickr Story: It's a day http://t.co/Gitu7iw9Wh #ds106 @ds106dc #tdc1351 — miranda ds106 (@mirandabloggin) September 21, 2015 —SALTY SKINN -
My Pug is Smarter than your Honor Student- Audio Assignment 1725
For my final audio assignment of the week, I chose to create my own tagline if I were on the Real Housewives. My roommates and I joke around that we’re actually the Real Housewives of Fredericksburg, so this came to me pretty quickly! Enjoy! If any of you have read my blog, you know I’m […] -
Audio Story: Emotions Through Sound
So for my next audio challenge, I decided to choose one with cool sounds and combine them all to make an entire track. I really enjoyed this one because it sounded so great at the end! I did the “Emotions Through Sound” Assignment where I needed to convey a certain emotion using 4 sounds. My … Continue reading Audio Story: Emotions Through Sound -
Forget E! The Internet Makes Everyone a Paparazzi
The battle between rap artists Meek Mill and Drake has escalated. After Drake’s release of his single Back 2 Back, a diss about Meek and his relatively new relationship with rapper, Nicki Minaj, the Young Money member decided to drop … Continue reading → -
This jazz station will sex you up
Check out the Original Assignment Description to see the details of this assignment! I think everyone did this assignment so I felt a little bit more comfortable posting it knowing that everyone else had to do it as well. If you’re following the string of these posts for this weeks assignments you’ll know that I don’t like … Continue reading This jazz station will sex you up -
Visual Assignment 1 – 9/20/15
Here is the link to the visual assignment: Assignment Link Number of stars: 3.5 Here is the photo that I did:
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Message For The Village
For this assignment I created a good morning message. I used audacity to record the audio and edited it through there. I played around with some of the features and decided to change the pitch to give it a different sound. After getting it to sound the way I wanted I exported the audio and uploaded … Continue reading Message For The Village → -
Hillsong United’s Greatest Hits, According to Me- Audio Assignment 1018
I chose to do the mashup of one of our favorite musical artists. I chose Hillsong United, a Christian band with roots in Australia. I love love love them and all of their music. I chose 5 different songs, and you will hear them in this order when you listen to my track: (1) Oceans, […] -
Spooky Dialogue Assignment
The first assignment I completed was listed in the assignment bank as “Spooky Dialogue”. In this assignment I was supposed to play around with audacity to change around a scary voice recording to make it even scarier. I HATED this assignment because I hate video taping or recording myself in any way shape or form. … Continue reading Spooky Dialogue Assignment -
Week 4 Summary
Unfortunately, I was extremely busy this week with work and assignments for other classes, so I didn’t get a chance to finish all the DS106 work. I did still learn a lot about storytelling, though. Ira Glass and Jad Abumrad taught me the building blocks of oral storytelling and why it’s still so important. … Read More → -
Week 4 Wrap Up
How well do you feel you completed the requirements of the week’s assignments? This week’s assignments were thoroughly enjoyable. I loved all of the Daily Creates I did and the Audio assignments turned out to be more fun than I had originally anticipated. Also being able to listen to so many different stories on the […] -
Design A Creepy Photo
I actually find this really creepy. For me, I do not find gory things creepy. Heck, I don’t even think that “creepy” faces are that creepy. If i was walking around the woods and I spotted that in the distance, I would crap my pants and turn and run, never looking back.
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Assignment #2
Here is my audio assignments #2 called Radio Bumper worth 3 stars. I had to create a short recording that identifies a radio station with signature music or an expression that makes sure the listeners know what they are tuned into. My audacity decided it didn’t want to work anymore so I had to use my friends audio program called -
Radio Bumper
This post is for the Radio Bumper assignment. I had to create a short radio bumper for DS106 radio. Here’s a link to the assignment page: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/creat-a-ds106-radio-bumper/ First, the work itself. Here’s the short radio bumper I created. I used Audacity to create this audio clip. I uploaded the song “You’ve Got a Killer … Read More → -
Weekly Summary, Week 4
Already done with week 4! What is that, a whole month? Time sure does fly on the internet. This week, we got to learn about audio storytelling, a subject that I absolutely love, and can now say I find even more fascinating. We learned the behind-the-scenes stuff from Ira Glass and Jad Abumrad, we learned […] -
Weekly Summary
Ira Glass & Jae Abumrad Video Reflections: I watched the first two parts of Ira Glass’s segment on storytelling. I took away several nuggets from both of his videos. In the first part , there are two main building blocks of storytelling. One is an anecdote and the other is a moment of reflection. He discusses what he … Continue reading Weekly Summary
