cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by The Daring Librarian One of the things the veterans of ds106 radio miss with the new station software is the ability for the @ds106radio twitterbot to recognize when a live braodcast has been started. I have full confidence Grant Potter will sort it out. Tonight, I was fiddling with a live broadcast from my hotel room in Japan, just playing some iTunes music via Nicecast. Rowan Peter called out for a voice over, so I switched over to my preferred Ladiocast mixer sert up. I was curious though, there is a setting in Ladiocast I do not see in Nicecast, to edit the metadata being sent out with the stream. Usually it’s the song info from iTunes, but there is a setting under Ladiocast (Streamer 1 -> Metadata) where you can update/override what is being sent out. So I tried ...

It’s not the blinking blue border that makes me chuckle, it’s the double take of “this is not a joke” combined with a smiley face. I would guess the click also gets you to the place to be the prime ocean front real estate in Mohave County, Arizona.

We had to make a bumper for our radio show.  Since our theme is the twilight zone, I used the theme song from it.  I loaded that into audacity, lowered the amplification so it wasn’t so loud and dominating, and ...

An essential apart of audio is being able to tell a story without verbal communication. i.e., without saying anything. For this audio assignment, the goal is to create a story with sound effects. The catch? You must use a minimum of five sounds without any verbal communication. Easier said than done, I realized. Although I ...

So today I finished my ds106 radio bumper for the radio show! It didn’t take so long since I’ve had a significant amount of practice with audacity, and I’m fairly decent with it. For my sound bit, I downloaded the instrumental version of “Fine by Me” by Andy Grammar, and then my own voice on ...

For this Assignment, we had to take little clips of songs and put them into one little clip.  There’s six.  I’ll let you guess what they are. I literally picked 6 random songs out of my iTunes and loaded them ...

I did this assignment in Audacity.  We had to record ourselves making a very specific order at McDonald’s. This really required no work at all.  I just wrote down some things I would order from McDonald’s (including the late night ...

So for this assignment, I had to mashup 3 different songs to create a story.  It was only worth 2 stars and I really think it should have been worth more because it was tough.  Here’s what I did. mashup ...

For this assignment, we had to make a Foley sound for a Charlie Chaplin video.  For all of you that don’t know what a Foley sound is, here’s a video on it. And here’s a link to the video that ...

Our radio show we are going to do as our theme, it would be Time Travel. And for the format it would be the Radio Drama. We thought that a “sitcom” would be the funniest and most entertaining. We were going to do a couple that wants to travel and think in the future while the boyfriend ...

So Team Awesome has a pretty solid idea of what we’re doing. In case you previously missed our ideas, I’ll lay it out again. We plan on doing a into the future and into the past radio drama, with loads of comedy and funny tidbits, with some actual facts buried deep within. Since our group ...

This week, I submitted three daily creates. 1. NOW SHOWING. Take a picture of something in your car. Title the picture as if it’s a movie poster. 2. BLAH. BLAH. BLAH. Record a sound that is annoying to you. 3....

Hooooo boy, this was a fun one!! I’ve heard of arguing with yourself, but this is ridiculous. This was made for the Multipersonality audio assignment. I made this by using multiple tracks in Garageband and by coming up with voices … Continue reading →

This tutorial is for the assignment Character Bird Calls. You can read my blog post about what I did for this assignment here. 1. The first step is to plan. You need to decide who you are going to call....

For my next audio assignment, I chose to create a Character Bird Call (**). The task was the create a call or something that would attract a character from a TV show/movie/book. I chose to call for Meredith Grey from the hit...

The Assignment: Over the span of this assignment stretch, you must complete 5 points of audio assignments from the audio category in the Assignment Bank.   Beat Craigslist ——————————————————– This assignment seemed so silly when I read it, I just HAD to do it. I was right. Silly. I interpreted “beat poem” as like a ...

It’s math time!!! I know you all have been dying for some good math times, I certainly know I have. Curious as to where I got this amazing title from? Simply check out this great song and you’ll understand. I took the 2 star assignment of The Contest Nobody Could Win a bit too literal (continue reading...)

The Assignment: Over the span of this assignment stretch, you must complete 5 points of audio assignments from the audio category in the Assignment Bank. Teenage Angst —————————————————– I googled ‘diary’; 1. A daily record, usually private, especially of the writer’s own experiences, observations, feelings, attitudes, etc. 2. A book for keeping such a record. 3. A book or pad containing pages marked and arranged in calendar order, in which to note appointments and the like. —————————————————- An excerpt from Beautifully_chaotic —————————————————- I really loved this assignment. Take an ...

So welcome to my tutorial for this amazing assignment on how I made my musical tag. Since the story of the project was really long I decided to break it up, so you can read the story part over here. For starters the first thing you need to do is plan plan plan plan! Planning (continue reading...)

Yes, that’s right. It is Sara Bareilles time! For those of you who may not know (which is probably most), my favorite singer has been and probably always will be Sara. Yeah, I love her so much I like to think that we are on a first name basis. What makes her even better is (continue reading...)

The first audio assignment that I chose to do was titled Song Story (***). For this assignment, the task was to pick a song and talk about what memory that song triggers when you hear it. Picking a song was a little...

The assignment: Sunday 2/24 (by midnight): As a group, settle on a theme and format for your show. One designated group member must write a blog post outlining these choices. Each student should design a proposed logo for their team. ————————– Digital Dynamite is:  Amber, Bellekid, Watkins, and ChaChaChelsea Oh, and me. Two Words.  WATCH. ...

This is my 17 second cover of the song “Kryptonite” by Three Doors Down. The people singing are, Me and Me, and on the beatbox we have the glorious Me!   I created this in Garageband in about 35min (it … Continue reading →

Design is my second favorite part of ds106, right behind photography so I was excited when I realized that this was Design Week in ds106. I spent more time on design assignments than I thought that I would, but it was worth it. I started off the week by downloading GIMP after struggling to open some files ...

  The Assignment: These projects all involve some aspect of re-editing existing content to change the meaning or making something new that visual represents an idea. The BIG Caption So I thought last week was a fail? Oh.  I was right. I apsatively. posalutely. forgot to share this with you. Didn’t post it. Didn’t link ...

The assignment: Visual Thinking and Symbols Do ONE of the following assignments: Learning By Design (*****) is an assignment in visual note taking. Because many of you expressed interest in the style of the Steven Johnson video form week 1, here is your opportunity to learn more about how this is done.   This TED ...

Fail.  This week was a fail.   Well not totally, but man when life happens.  IT HAPPENS.  Feel free to replace life with some other four letter word. And so I’m here late.  I may get no credit for this week. UGH.  but I’m not giving up.  I’m at least gonna show you what I ...

Friday, February 22: Add a Caption to a Photo that Makes it Say the Opposite of What it Looks Like it Means. Saturday, February 23: Bumper stickers are statements- draw one about ds106 you’d like to see. Sunday, February 24: Take a picture of something you made, be it food, art, or something else. Ode ...

We worked with design this week. Safari Trip I had planned on going to the mall to complete this, but I don’t have any money for gas right now, so I figured my apartment would be good enough–and more challenging, too. I took a lot of pictures thinking they would be for something else, but ...

The week is finally over and I am so happy I could jump up and down, as a matter of fact that is what I am doing right now! This week I think I learned a lot about design. In fact I applied some of my techniques  to my daily creates. This was the someone cozy in ...