A reflection upon your contribution to the radio show and to your assessment of the group process: How did your group go about choosing a theme and organizing itself? We used Canvas discussion boards in order to communicate. People we throwing out ideas but I believe it was Maryna who came up with the idea […]

10/15/2015 #tdc1376 my luckiest day would be getting accepted into a PhD program — Ashlyn Runk (@a_renee03) October 15, 2015 This daily create is pretty straightforward. We needed to tweet about what we would imagine to be the luckiest day of our lives, which for me would be finally getting accepted into a doctoral program … Continue reading Week 7/8: Daily Creates

“Each student is to create a bumper for their show, it should be within the theme/style of your show, and include the name of the show and a ds106 radio station announcement, like “You’re listening to the Doggie Doo Show on ds106 radio, where it’s always a romp in the park”. A bumper is merely … Continue reading The Verge: Bumper

DS 106 Radio Show: The VERGE. This was a fun couple of weeks creating a commercial, bumper and a show! Bumper Commercial  Audio Assignments: Row Row Polyphony: The Mouse Ran Up The Clock! (2.5 stars) Imitate Some Weather: Sunday Morning.. (2.5 stars) Daily Creates: 10/5- Pareidolia 10/7- What would I do if I had not lost… 10/8- Lasts.  … Continue reading Weekly Summary: 7 & 8

The Work Itself The Story Behind the Story Since Halloween is just around the corner and all of the haunted houses are opening up I thought it would be relevant to put in the show. I tried to make it sound as scary as possible without actually frightening people. I think haunted houses and haunted […]

For my second audio assignment I chose to do the assignment called Life In Two Minutes worth 2.5 stars.This assignment required me to create a story that describes a significant moment in my life. Steps: I went to the ds106 page and clicked on the tab components. Under the components tab I clicked on the tab assignment bank. Under assignment

The first assignment I did was called Spooky Sounds worth 4 and a half stars. For this assignment I had make a track using spooky sounds , to try and evoke a sense of fear in the listener.   Steps: I went to the ds106 page and clicked on the tab components. Under the components tab I clicked on the

Hints: 1: TV Show theme song 2: Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, Joey, Chandler, Ross 3: Central Perk   For this audio assignment, worth 3 stars, we had to reverse the music for an audio file. I started by finding the audio clip on YouTube and downloading it. I then uploaded the clip onto Audicity so I could … Continue reading Guess The Backwards Track →

Now, for the commercial, we needed to make a longer segment that contained an attention-drawing audio for our listeners. I wanted to relate it to the show’s science theme, so I decided to have present science experiments for the audience to come try. I used Freesound.org for some sound effects in the background. First, you … Continue reading Radio Show: Experimentation

For these 2 weeks, we are making a radio show within our groups. In my group, we created a Radio Show on all things about science. We needed to make our own bumper and commercial for these shows. So, a bumper is a small blurb that reminds the listeners what they are listening to! I … Continue reading Radio Show Bumper: Science is Cool

So for these past couple of weeks we have been working on a radio show. One of the requirements was to create a bumper and this is what I came up with! The Work Itself The Story Behind the Story I decided to pick upbeat music for the radio bumper. Obviously with a name like […]

Make it 800% Slower-3.5 Music producer Nick Pittsinger slowed Bieber’s “U Smile” down 800% and the result was ethereal magic. Find a song to experiment with and slow it down to the point where it becomes an amazing piece of ambient music. If doing this with Audacity or any other non-linear digital editor, you’ll likely […]

For today we had to create an 8th day. I decided to go with something I think most people would enjoy before the dreaded Mondays. #tdc1378: The Eighth Day @ds106dc #tdc1378 #dailycreate pic.twitter.com/Zwy6dGauyU — miranda ds106 (@mirandabloggin) October 17, 2015 —SALTY SKINN

I love Owl City. (I actually met Adam Young earlier this month and I cried) So, naturally, I picked a few Owl City songs for my Greatest Hit’s assignment (3 […]

“Try to convey a certain emotion, such as fear, stress, sadness, etc. by combing sound effects. They can be human sounds, such as crying with laughter in the background, to maybe express someone’s fears or being embarrassed, or you can get really artsy and try to convey an emotion by sound effects– like loud noises … Continue reading →

To create my bumper for the radio show, I first wrote the script for what I was going to say. Then I started searching for background music for the bumper. I wanted to find a song that didn’t have any lyrics in it so it would not interfere with my talking. After searching on YouTube … Continue reading →

For this assignment (4.5 stars), we had to have a phone conversation with ourself! Probably more awkward than getting a wrong number, is getting a wrong number that won’t end. But maybe that person on the other end was trying to tell you something secretly? Ah, who cares. What a weirdo. Process: Wrote the script […]

For my radio commercial,  I started out by creating a script of what I was going to say. Then, once I created my script, I timed myself reading it until it was at the appropriate length. Then once the script was done, I started searching for music to put in the background of the commercial. … Continue reading →

I created a poster online using Canva. I uploaded two pictures of “zen” which I dragged onto the poster. I cropped both photos so they were positioned nicely within the poster. I added a heading titled “Zenday”. I used a free background for the poster that Canva presented as an option. Here it is on my … Continue reading Daily Create The Eight Day

This daily asked us to select an image of our favorite era in America. I chose the Civil War because it was a turning point for America, and it took place at the Battlefield Athletic Complex that I play on. This image is an interpretation of the Battle of Fredericksburg. Here it is on my … Continue reading Daily Create The Days of Yore

Here is my commercial for our radio show “9 Lives”. I grabbed a YouTube clip of halloween theme music and placed into my GarageBand song. I recorded my voice as a voice over as well. I saved my project to iTunes and then uploaded it to SoundCloud.

Here is my short bumper for our radio show “9 Lives”. I used GarageBand to record my voice and inputted spooky halloween music from YouTube as a sound over. I then saved it to iTunes and uploaded it to SoundCloud

Healthy Bad Habits http://theprosperousdaisy.com/daily-create/healthy-bad-habits/ pic.twitter.com/aSRYgXCWwZ — Rachel Stanford (@rach_stanford23) October 14, 2015 For this daily create we were asked to show how our bad habits can be good ones as well. I chose to take a video with my iPhone of my lunch that I was eating that day. Ham and cheese sandwich, sauteed asparagus […]

My daily create on October 16th. This is my fourth daily create of the two week period. I had to find an image of an item from my favorite era in history and make a short video telling its backstory. @ds106dc Backstory of this sphinx statue #tdc1377 pi...

Our main task this week was to put together a radio show as a group. I would be lying if I said I wasn’t totally thrilled to be done with my portion of the assignment. I recorded and re-recorded this segment several different times because I just could not get the sound I was looking … Continue reading The Verge: Radio Clip

“Take your favorite song. Remove the lyrics. Play only up to thirty seconds of the song. Listener must be able to guess.” – 3.5 stars So this assignment was a little unclear to me. I wasn’t sure if we needed to just provide an instrumental version of our song or actually go through and remove … Continue reading What’s that song?

“Whats your morning sound like? Tell a narrative of a regular (or abnormal) morning using the movements and sounds from getting off the bed, to starting the day. This has to be all your own recording so no sound effects from outside sources. And try to keep the dialogue minimum to none at all.” – … Continue reading A morning in the life of:

“Each student should also create a commercial for their show, again it should be within the theme/style of your show, and should be 30-45 seconds long. A commercial should include something to draw the interest of a listener to the show, you are trying to convince them to tune in.” This week, we were tasked … Continue reading The Verge: Sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Association