I look out of my window, and I can see a woman. There was once a time when I walked with this woman through the mountains and forests that now also lay within my gaze as I look at her. The moon shines bright upon her face. I thought her to be beautiful, indeed she … Continue reading The Woman Outside of My Window

With the cloudy, drizzly weather, staying up late doing homework, and the general “being alive” exhaustion, all I want to do is take a nap! (Icons found at The Noun Project)

I believe a few animals must have escaped their own exhibit to come chill with the super cool flamingos… Some more animals popped up in the flamingo exhibit at the zoo! @ds106dc #tdc1352 #dailycreate pic.twitter.com/dREhOYxf0u — Rachel Stanford (@rach_stanford23) September 21, 2015

For this daily create, we were told to add icons or images all over ourselves today! I chose the chocolate icon and went chocolate galore! tdc1352: Print all over me! #dailycreate @ds106dc #tdc1352 Who doesn't love chocolate!!! pic.twitter.com/E8IVQpvuSM — miranda ds106 (@mirandabloggin) September 21, 2015   —-SALTY SKINN

Today’s daily create was to take a photo of yourself and put icons all over it. I used Snapchat because I was familiar with it. I tried to think of something witty and creative such as their example of “ants in your pants” but I came up shorthanded. So I decided to promote recycling! @ds106dc […]

Today’s daily create required me to add some icons to a photo, so I decided to use a panel from...

This week in DS106 wasn’t too bad, the weeks just seem to be flying by faster and faster as time goes on. The daily creates for this week were cool, I would say that the only difficult thing we had to do was the reflections. Just because of the fact that they were so long […]

This week was all about one thing. Audio Audio is probably my least favorite way of storytelling when I have to do it myself since I am very nervous when I have to talk to a lot of people, like giving a presentation in a classroom. So putting my voice out on the internet for … Continue reading →

For this week, I was assigned to do: Reflections on the Ira Glass and Jad Abumrad videos, Summary of the radio...

Key Points from audio storytelling: I listened to Ira Glass and Jad Abumrad talk about what they believe is important for digital storytelling. Ira talks about how it is key for journalists to find the perfect story. Glass talks about how it takes multiple tries to find and write the perfect story to put on the air. I believe what he

Drone It To Me, Baby For this story,  I noticed the producer used some upbeat music that was in sync...

http://jackochikatana.com/uncategorized/on-audio-storytelling/ Audio storytelling isn’t just speaking the words of story in front of you.  Good audio storytelling involves immersing the listener with the use of voice inflections, sound effects, and music.  The human voice connects the listener to the storyteller,… Continue Reading →

My Five Card Flickr Story: Simple Change of Seasons http://t.co/NC8T3bTf1Z — James Baylor (@JamesBaylorUMW) September 21, 2015  

Summarize the key points you learned about audio storytelling from the Ira Glass and Jad Abumrad videos. Audio is another great form of storytelling that creates a lot of imagery in your mind in a different way. I really enjoyed learning about audio and how people use it to engage other listeners.This week, I was nervous … Continue reading Weekly Summary #4

The podcasts begin with Ira Glass talking to different students of Columbia University and seeing how they got accepted to the school. Some of the students said that it was because of what their application was based on or a sport they played (gymnastics). Other students said it was because of their GPA or high […]

This was a pretty simple assignment.  I took a quote from a famous tech developer, and tried to put a bit of feeling where I feel like it should be.  to what success, I don’t know, but it felt good… Continue Reading →

For my third assignment I chose the Good Morning Message For The Village assignment. To record my good morning message, I used Audacity. At first, my greeting was just a very simple “Good morning Mary Washington, I hope you have a wonderful day,” but that to me seemed very dull. I decided to go with … Continue reading →

The story told through sounds of a pianist coming on stage to perform for many people before waking up from his dream. I didn’t just want to put a bunch of random sounds and hope someone could just make something… Continue Reading →

In this audio assignment, I chose Text Impersonations because it seemed like an assignment that could be made humorous since I have a lot of funny conversations with my mother and sister. For example, my mom was making fun of me one day because I used to be obsessed with Crocks when I was around … Continue reading →

For this audio story, I chose to do “So and So’s Greatest Hits”. I was supposed to choose my favorite band, artist or musician, and then choose 5 of their greatest hit songs. With this, we are then supposed to create an audio track with a mash-up of these songs! I really liked this assignment … Continue reading Audio Story: So and So’s Greatest Hits

For my very first audio assignment, I decided to do Phone Conversation with Myself because it looked very fun but simple to do. I started by thinking of ideas for conversations. At first I was thinking of a conversation with a friend who I haven’t talked to in a while so the conversation would just … Continue reading →

I chose to do my sound effect story of my morning routine after I wake up! It was pretty funny while making this, sense I couldn’t do any vocal sounds.  

Conveying the process of wonder and coming to a realization. I picked the emotion of wonder because I thought it could be interesting to try to represent that process in sound.  Creating it was as simple as finding various sounds… Continue Reading →

Radio Bumper for our DS106 radio station!

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

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

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 →

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 →

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 […]

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 →