Let me just first say that DS106 radio is a really cool idea!  I have actually encountered an online radio like this before, and I’m glad to see that it is beginning to be a growing trend.  It took me quite a few tries to get the radio station actually running, as it simply would... Continue reading →

I found the discussion by Ira Glass to be extremely helpful regarding the concepts of storytelling and conveying them orally. He has not only a great penchant for storytelling but for teaching as well. The way in which he expressed some of the inner workings of storytelling and provided motivation to others who are pursuing […]

#BurpeesForBobby

This week we had to listen to DS106Radio. I found the whole experience somewhat confusing. Looking at the status page still made it unclear who was actually the host and also I was not sure when the show was live or not. I tuned in on two separate occasions. The first time I tuned there […]

I recommend that anyone who has time listen to thisamericanlife.org. It is a program that I have found a lot of interesting shows on the site and have listened to several different pieces on over the course of the semester. I think they all tell great stories and use techniques that we are using in this very class. One of… Read more →

I started out the week having to meet strangers which was an awkward experience. Asking people for pictures was strange but I had a group who let me sit at their table and take a picture of them just enjoying lunch. Next I had to describe how I was feeling on a particular day. This […]

BurpeesForBobby!! Sorry I draw so bad but hopefully Bobby gets the rules now!!

I really enjoyed doing this assignment, especially now that I knew how to use Audacity. The process of creating the entire story was very easy and simple using Audacity. The challenging part was trying to figure out what I wanted to tell my story about and trying to find the sound effects that what I […]

Both gentlemen dropped a lot of gems about the art of audio storytelling/broadcasting. Ira Glass discussed the “building blocks” that are crucial in storytelling. There is the Anecdote, which is the sequence of events, the Bait, which leads to questions … Continue reading →

I don’t know about the other listeners, but I think we could do better with the music selection here. #ds106radio

This week was both fun and extremely frustrating at the same time. I will vent my frustrations with the multitude of applications first. I don’t know if it is only me, but I have been having some difficulty getting my Sound Cloud file to load properly on my blog. I have tried all of the […]

  So, for my second assignment of the week, I chose to take on the audio assignment entitled “The Contest Nobody Could Win”. I actually sat at my desk and said, “I’ll take “The Contest Nobody Could Win” for 1 and a half stars Alex”. I thought I could knock this out in 20 minutes […]

I didn’t realize that we had our own radio channel for this class! I thought it was all just clips and recordings. I guess I don’t realize how big this class is and how wide spread it can get. It is an open course for anyone to take. It is amazing how many people this […]

One of my favorite events in history was when Orson Wells put out the War of the Worlds broadcast and it was so good that people actually believed that aliens were taking over the world. If you do not know that happened, read up. It is hilarious. Like what? Who would have believed that… oh yeah our grandparents. Imagine being… Read more →

Listening to the ds106 radio has been a challenge for me. Every time I tuned in, it was just music playing, no sound, a class discussion on the wire, a show I have never seen. or a speaker, but I could only hear him for a couple of minutes, and then the sound would be […]

Daily Creates every week are hard to get through. My alarm setting idea has failed me. This week I still only did three Daily Creates. I would literally look at the alarm and then forget until after midnight. However I did get through these three Daily Creates.     The three titles of the Daily Creates I did this week… Read more →

Daily Create 1 (9/18): For this create, we were prompted to make a photo collage of several stacks of books in order to present a “self portrait.” I was running late while I did this assignment, so admittedly there is… Continue Reading →

Starting out with this assignment, I was getting very frustrated with trying to figure out how Audacity works. Even after looking over the tutorials the first time I was still having a lot of trouble editing the tracks and organizing them together. So I went back and started to read the instructions word for word […]

Ira Glass and Jad Abumrad covered a lot of topics in such short amount of time. Ira Glass begins by describing the building blocks of audio, which are anecdotes and moment of reflection. Anecdotes are basically used to enlighten boring stories into something much more vibrant and interesting. Also, they can are meant to constantly raise questions and answer […]

It’s not a secret that I have a weird obsession with the late U.S. president JFK. The second I heard that we had to do a bumper, I immediately knew that I wanted to play with a famous JFK speech. Don’t… Continue Reading →

After a long day of work, It was only right to treat myself to  a drink. #MyTimeToUnwind

My sound effect story is kind of personal because it relates to my family business. It also did not hurt that I had a slight grasp on working with audio at this point. I chose to do my story on an ice cream truck because my family actually owns an ice cream business. This is the process I usually go… Read more →

Audio has kind of been the death of me. I know that sounds a bit dramatic… but really. I have never had to use audio programs. Since I have a mac I found it a lot easier to use Garage Band than the program that was given on the Ds106 website. I found that Garage Band was pretty straight-forward. You… Read more →

For my sound effect story, I decided to narrate the process of someone getting caught in the rain. I was listening to RainyMood when I was reading the project description, and the idea hit me- make a rain story! While… Continue Reading →

This is Brandy (left) and Lucy (right) cooling down after I took them out for a walk. These are the most loyal females I know!

The second audio assignment I chose was Here It Here (worth 1 star). The goal was to write a poem/story, using homophones (words that sound the same with different meanings). This was another opportunity for me to get creative and practice … Continue reading →

It took me a little while to think of a song that I liked and was fairly well known, but not incredibly easy to guess! This track was made by simply importing the music clip into Audacity, and then using the reverse effect on the song!  Now here are the hints! 1.) This song was... Continue reading →

Sorry this is so short, I had to capture some quick footage before my phone died.

My title for this post might seem strange to those of you who did not decide to listen to the radio program that I did, but if you did not give it a listen I highly recommend it because it had a lot of really interested topics. I decided to listen to the radiolab’s episode […]