Here is my assignment #1 from the audio assignment bank, it was called Favorite Song at one and half stars.For this assignment I had to create a sound clip of just the instrumental part to a song , for people to guess and see if they know it.   Here are the steps for this assignment: I went to the

I chose to listen to “How I got Into College”. It is a podcast by Ira Glass of the College application process. The beginning of the podcasts begins with Ira asking Columbia University students how they were accepted. Most of the students answer something along the lines of “I have no idea”. The podcast uses the … Continue reading Radio Story Ep. 504 “How I got Into College”

Favorite Song (1.5 Stars) “Take your favorite song. Remove the lyrics. Play only up to thirty seconds of the song. Listener must be able to guess. “ I was more than happy to do this assingment. I have always wanted to know how to take lyrics out of songs and now I do! I will […]

Audio storytelling, woooooo! <crickets> I wrote about talking to machines, or Russian chat-bots, whichever sounds more convincing. I pretended to have taught a communication class in which a student who had no concept of good communication tried to introduce himself. Unfortunately, I couldn’t see myself putting together a puppet, so I only made 3 daily … Continue reading Week 4

For the first audio assignment I created my own ds106 radio bumper. The process was fairly simple. I downloaded Audacity onto my computer and through that I made my sound clip. I first recorded what I wanted to say for this short assignment then I went back through and edited out the long chunks of … Continue reading Ds106 Radio Bumper →

This week, I wasn’t as on top of comments as I should have been, if I’m being perfectly honest. I was so focused on getting my assignments done in a timely manner, I almost completely forgot to check out my peers’ blogs, and so I hustled to read through some last night. But! I still […]

What did I learn this week? I learned how to record sounds from my computer, appreciate radio, and not much else. What did you struggle with? Not going insane. It’s a pain to edit audio and enjoy the process. At first I struggled with obtaining the sound files I wanted to use. Having a soundboard … Continue reading Audio Storytelling

Sound Effects Story (3.5 Stars) “Tell a story using nothing but sound effects. There can be no verbal communication, only sound effects. Use at least five different sounds that you find online. The story can be no longer than 90 seconds. “ I thought this was an exciting and challenging assignment for me to try. […]

Jad Abumrad discusses why he believes radio creates empathy. Having listened to a number of Radiolab podcasts, I was curious to hear what Jad Abumrad would say about storytelling. It was surprising to hear him first say that he was a TV junkie. For some reason, I had it in my head that somebody who … Read More →

Have A Phone Conversation With Yourself “Using Audacity or another audio editing software, record yourself holding down both sides of a conversation. Using the pitch changer and/or other effects, change your voice so it sounds like two different people are talking.” This is by far the most embarrassing assignment that I have done. I know […]

Well hello there! This DailyCreate turned out pretty funny! Our assignment was to create a story on the Five Card Flickr site. I was laughing the whole…

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In these short videos, Ira Glass describes what he thinks storytelling is. He identifies the two building blocks of storytelling and the “importance of abandoning crap.” Ira Glass starts off by telling us that storytelling is very different from what we’ve been taught in school. In storytelling, you don’t need to come out of the … Read More →

Listening to Stories For this particular assignment/reflection, we were asked to listen to several different radio stories from different sites and pick up on each one’s audio techniques and what we thought about their their techniques. From American Life: How I Got Into College I sincerely enjoyed this story itself and all of the audio […]

Hey everybody! This is one of my audio assignments for this week. All of the audio assignments can be found here at the ds106 website. The point…

  My sound effect story is of a convenience store robbery and murder. A man parks his car, opens the door, walks to the cash register, pumps his shotgun, the cash register opens, he then shoots the cash clerk, walks out the door, and drives away. On YouTube I googled each sound and converted it to a … Continue reading Sound Effect Story Audio Assignment

We’ve all had a guy like this in our class before–someone who is not affected by social norms, who can basically say whatever they want and get away with it. This audio file captures this moment, although it gets a little ridiculous. WARNING: THE FOLLOWING CLIP CONTAINS PROFANITY. Posts online can be so boring. Mine … Continue reading Tourette’s Guy in COMM 101

For my third audio assignment, I chose one that was always created. This assignment called to create sounds that are familiar to us, but may be strange to others. I included crickets chirping, frogs croaking, an airplane, and a ceiling fan. These sounds exists at my house. The crickets and frogs are pretty noisy every night … Continue reading Familiar Sounds Audio Assignment

http://5card.cogdogblog.com//show.php?id=37810 This is one of my favorite daily creates because it allowed me to make a story based on random pictures and it was really fun to see what I could come up with just using these pictures that had no connecti...

Hey everybody! This week is all about audio and we were required to make at least 3 audio assignments worth a total of 8 stars…

Jad Abunrad’s perspective on radio storytelling is quite enlightening. I loved the metaphor he used of someone over the radio making a painting when telling a story but they are not the ones holding the paint brush, it’s the audience. That is precisely why he considers the radio “co-imagination” and I would say that books […]

First and foremost before I get into the details of this story and about HOW it was made, I want to use the first paragraph to say how much I loved this story. This story connected with me and I felt inspired and even slightly changed after listening to this story. I think for any … Continue reading “Hit The Road” Reflection

I found Ira Glass‘ advice about storytelling on the radio extremely helpful. He pointed out some useful tips that can make any boring ordinary story sound fascinating and intriguing, which he demonstrated quite well. It was great that he let all young or aspiring storytellers know that it is okay not to have amazing stories […]

Hey guys and gals! This has been an audio kind of week! For this week we were required to make at least 3 audio assignments…

I listened to a few of Ira Glass’s Storytelling Videos and was very glad that I did. He brought up a lot of interesting points about Audio Storytelling and he really got into some of the basics of why audio storytelling can be successful and also not so successful. In his first video he brought up the … Continue reading About Audio Storytelling