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 →

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 […]

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…

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

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

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 […]

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

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

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 →

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, […]

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

  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 →

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 […]

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

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 →

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 […]

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

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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