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

This week we learned a lot! It was a lot of new information and trial and error. I’ve never used Audacity so that whole process was very new to me. I still do not know how to save a YouTube video from YouTube, but I worked my way around it. I learned that Professor Polack usually gives […]

Letting the demons take him over, Shia Labeouf is trying to motivate everyone listening to “JUST DO IT!”. Don’t listen...

This week I only had two comments from DS106 students. I enjoyed reading other peoples blogs on which audio story they chose to listen to. Although the one I listened to was interesting, I didn’t like it in terms of focusing specifically on the music correlating with the stories. Most of the music was used to […]

Five Card Story: Forest Slums a Five Card Flickr story created by Bosco flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by...

Two may enter, one may leave. These two warriors meet in the field to take each others head, but only...

Here we have the rookie radio broadcaster, Bosco, entertaining his audience with some pop music while hosting a one million...

After listening to Ira and Jad’s videos this week, I came away with three key components that work to create truly effective audio stories. The first is the presences of an anecdote and moment of reflection. Without the anecdote, there is no structure, and without reflection, there is no point. The second is how important … Continue reading Looking Back: Week Four

Check out the original audio. Overall, how effective do you think audio was for telling the story? Using audio as a medium was perfectly fine. Many ideas of the story, such as instant messaging, are easy to visualize and do not require video. There was a ton of post-production. If video were included, I’m sure … Continue reading Talking To Machines

I feel like audio stories best relate back to what I said in the previous blog post on storytelling of how a good story (at least to me) is when a storyteller can immerse the viewer through their words or… Continue Reading →

The final audio assignment I did this week was 3 stars entitled “Make it 800% slower.”  For this assignment you have to take a song and slow it down to make it sound almost like classical music. The example was U Smile by Justin Bieber. I decided to do Life Happens by Brandon and Leah. […]

Five Card Story: Gambler's Woes http://t.co/BIUMo6bVSr @ds106dc #tdc1351 — Ashlyn Runk (@a_renee03) September 20, 2015 Today, 9/20/2015, we had to do a five image flickr story for our daily create. We selected 5 images from a pool of random pictures and then had to write a story to go along with it! I’m actually really … Continue reading Daily Create: Gambler’s Woes

#tdc1350 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create is https://t.co/YxOmqehiyM — Ashlyn Runk (@a_renee03) September 19, 2015 Today’s daily create, 9/19/2015, was to create a concrete poem, or a poem whose meaning comes in the shape and structure of the words just as much as it comes from the words themselves. Now, I am no … Continue reading Daily Create: Concrete Poem

Another wonderful day. Time to print an awesome cat picture! Oh no, out of paper again. I could have sworn we had bought more rolls. These cats are losing their color! I knew I should have bought better ink. This is a lot of work. Just to print cat picture… Finally! This is exactly what … Continue reading Printing Problems

I love Radiolab. I have said that before, but I truly do. That being said, I quite enjoyed this weeks “intro to audio” theme for our assignments! I had never […]

@ds106dc Concrete poem for today's daily create! #tdc1350 pic.twitter.com/Uxo1Z30BFY — Adam Hoff (@swimmerdude79) September 20, 2015

Hourglass. #tdc1350 @ds106dc https://t.co/zxu34HD77O — Stephanie King (@Musicxlifenlove) September 20, 2015

@ds106dc #tdc1350 #ds106 Concrete poem pic.twitter.com/mtzewDlPB6 — Kelsey Stanbro (@KelseyStanbro) September 19, 2015 Today’s daily create was to create a concrete poem. The first image that popped into my head was a tree, so I wrote about a tree. I’m not good at poetry so I just tried to make every other word rhyme. I […]