http://www.radiolab.org/story/218948-ghost-stories/ The above link is to the Ghost Stories Audio story. The techniques I noticed that were used were spots of music to set the scene, pauses and moments of silence that got your attention, layering of voices that were telling the story, and different sounds from voices as in some would be background and […]

In Part 1 of “Ira Glass on Storytelling” I learned that everything I learned about when it comes to storytelling in high school, isn’t really how it works. You do have to have a series of actions that sets up the action part of the story and what happens next and after that. You also […]

I chose the audio story “How I Got Into College” for a few reasons.  The title caught my eye as it reminded me about the not too distant past, when I was applying to colleges.  It seemed like it could be a very interesting topic and I was eager to hear more. One of the... Continue reading →

  Ira Glass definition of story telling is the most helpful and useful throughout this whole assignment. He thought me the real definition of storytelling  and ways  to use it to  create a beautiful story on my own. He is so vibrant and listening to him is so exciting. He Seems like he knows his […]

This week I a putting everything on one blog post, some people have been confused by the multiple pages.  I hope this helps. Telling Stories in Photos In doing ds106 Daily Creates you’ve already been using photography and drawing skills, plus you’ve had some practice on doing visual stories from our introduction to storytelling. In this week we … Continue reading →

The Daily Creates this week were a little bit more tricky than the past couple of weeks!  Overall though, I am satisfied with mine turned out! Create 1: Visualizing a run This thought crosses my mind often when I am being lazy, and usually motivates me to get up and do something!   Create 2:... Continue reading →

Listen to Stories was probably the most fun I had working on this week’s assignment. I decided to listen to a collection of stories titled “Getting Away With It” in Episode 477 of This American Life. I figured this series would be intriguing from the prologue because of the absurd situations the storytellers would get […]

It was audio week! It was not as bad as I thought it would be but at the same I notice a new trend in the work getting more and more tedious. I really enjoy the process though. Garage band has been a huge asset to me this week. I started from the beginning learning a lot about the structure… Read more →

1. Learning about Audio Storytelling In a nutshell, I learn in the videos of Ira Glass’ Part 1 and Part 2 to erase my memory of anything high school has taught me about storytelling. Storytelling needs to major parts: the events that build off each other and leads to a powerful ending as well as […]

This week was a huge learning experience for me. I learned about audio and radio. I started out the week by listening to Ira Glass, whom I found to be motivational for me. He taught me about the building blocks for a good story, and also described how hard it is to find a good […]

I will be brutally honest: I still don’t entirely get DS106 radio. I’m not a stranger to it- in fact, my sophomore year I once listened to DS106 radio for more than two hours while writing an article for the… Continue Reading →

Using Audacity was a struggle at first. I looked up several youtube video and how to websites to get me started. Back in high school we used to use garage band to work on assignments like this so I started to get the hang of it once I realized Audacity was a more complex version […]

Week 4 was very frustrating and challenging for me in some aspects of the week. Specifically with the assignments and trying to understand Audacity. However, the reflections and videos we had to do were very interesting and taught me a lot about storytelling and the fact that it doesn’t have to just be visual. However, […]

This was the first week that we really dove into audio so it was only fitting that we listen to a bit of DS106 radio. Who knew that was a thing? Ds106 does in fact have it’s own station where people can play their broadcasts live. Sometimes (if you are lucky) they have song on there.  The minute I opened… Read more →

The daily creates this week were pretty fun I must say. I started off this week by taking a picture of a stranger, who introduced himself as Devin, and he happened to be a classmate in my Math 471 class. He gracefully accepted my request to take a picture him, and I began to start a […]

Week 4 has come to an end, and man has it been tough. I’m not sure about anyone else, but I faced some challenges this week. It took me midway through the week to finish the introduction to audio techniques. But I was able to pick up a lot of helpful information, that made things […]

For my reflection post on an outside radio broadcast, I chose to do something from “This American Life.” It’s a show that I grew up listening to, and in my experience you always learn something new or interesting from their… Continue Reading →

For the listening to stories assignment, I decided to choose the “Talking to Machines” one because out of all the options available, this one intrigued me the most. I definitely recommend a listen to this because it covers a lot of interesting topics. They start off by interviewing a man named Dr. Robert Epstein, who […]

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For my summary I listened to the first two parts of Ira Glass’ talks and Jad Abumrad’s talk on the importance of audio storytelling both of which you can find here. At first I was skeptical about how much I would learn that I couldn’t already intrinsically figure out about …

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Whenever I wake up in the mornings, I hate the world. I know my last post was pretty pessimistic, so let me just say that I promise I’m a cheery person, but I am not someone you will ever want… Continue Reading →

When I started listening to the radio station, I was actually surprised at first because it was a young girl talking. I then caught onto what her and the radio host were talking about and it was her fascination with reading , her favorite books, and her not-so-favorite-never-wanting-to read type of books. The radio host […]

So…for the past hour or so I’ve had ds106radio on in the background and it has been quite an interesting experience. It started off with a generic selection of music some of which was modern pop music and a few bits of techno. However, it soon transitioned to storytelling based program called This Arizona Life […]

https://soundcloud.com/kbarnes2/sounds-scapes I choose Sound Scapes, which is just taking different sounds and combining them to create a piece of music. Sound Scapes was worth 4.5 stars. I could not get this one to automatically show up on the post so...

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I joined in on the radio when they were playing the famous song from the Rocky movies. After the song there was a man and woman discussing about an radio project that students had to do for the class, and the different techniques they had to use and where to find them. Then they played […]

I don't know about the other listeners, but I think we could do better with the music selection here. #ds106radio — Kevin Le (@solidsnake487) September 21, 2014 I tuned onto the DS106 radio today, along with about 12-15 other listeners, and right away, I was disappointed with the music selection. I was hoping they would […]

Wow it is the 4th week. I feel like I have learned so much! I feel like every week I say that it is my favorite week. But seriously music is my life. I love to listen to it. It was amazing to really get into audio and really listen. I found myself using some […]

So when I first tuned in to DS106Radio, there was program called Radioing. There were no hosts, just some obscure music playing. About 30 minutes later, a new program came on called “Sunday Sunday, Sunday. Mariana Funes and John Johnston … Continue reading →