The Assignment: “What is a bumper? It is a short recording that identifies the radio station with signature music or an expression that makes sure the listeners know what they are tuned into. So for ds106 it should certainly include “DS106 Radio” and some sort of message about the station with voice over music.” —————————————————————– ...

And now it’s time to hear from Ira Glass of This American Life about storytelling basics! In Glass’ video, he emphasizes understanding the main building blocks of an exceptional story, the anecdote and the moment(s) of reflection. An anecdote is … Continue reading →

This week, I chose to listen to Radio Lab‘s Ghost Stories.  Before listening, I paid attention to the Dissection of Joanne Rosser-Papermaker, and it was mentioned that I should try to discern paragraphs during an audio story, as well as an introduction. ...

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If you thought DS 106 was a cool class, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet! We have our own radio show! I know, it’s cool. I follow the radio show on twitter {@ds106radio} and you should too! There are posts about what is streaming and it keeps you up to date! Also, the radio show archives ...

For my first Audio Assignment, I clicked the button “try a random one”. I wanted to see what it came up with because trying to pick one out in the whole bank is hard!! {there are wayy too many good ones and I couldn’t choose!} It came up with the assignment, to imitate some kind ...

After gaining several grey hairs last night from this assignment, I have officially made my first DS106 Radio Bumper! This week is all about audio storytelling and one of our assignments was to create a Radio Bumper. It was suggested … Continue reading →

Gosh, I just can’t get enough of The Daily Create (TDC)! This week’s DCs were so fun, and I can’t help but be jealous of the person who makes them up {who IS that man behind the red curtain anyway??} On Monday, the DC was to write an acrostic poem that includes an item of clothing ...

Looking at the first video from Ira Glass, I really took a liking to how he brought up the idea of anecdotes. I do not have very much experience when it comes to broadcasting, but I am fortunate enough to work with someone who is a radio broadcaster. Yes that is right, this Princess has (continue reading...)

This was the most fun I’ve had doing something in this class so far and I have no idea why.  Here’s the assignment. The explosions need a little work. After some comments, I went back in to make another story.  I liked the old one, but it was clear to me that my message was  [ Read More ]

Looking at the Ira Glass and other guy who’s name I can’t pronounce videos, there was a good amount to talk about and consider.  First with the Ira Glass, obviously there is the series of anecdotes that lead into one another.  The most important piece is the flow of the story.  Everything needs to go  [ Read More ]

Inspired by tonight’s #etmooc live animated GIF variety show from Jim Groom, Tom Woodward, Michael Branson-Smith, and Brian Lamb, I could not help but stay up later than advisable making a GIF. It’s a break in the action from grading. No, it’s just like an idea that gets in your brain, and will not stop til you frame it out. I present, what happens when Educational Technology meets a MOOC in a field, you get E.T. The MOOC(ie). This was done in Photnshop CS5 with a bunch of layer hi-jinks, starting with basic images of cow in field, and a PNG file of ET (useful for its transparent background). I separated the cow from the background, and backfilled it with some clone brush of the grass. I used two shades of blue and the Render Clouds to fill in the sky. I had a GIF of a flying saucer from ...

The assignment was to create an audio story using at least 5 sounds in 60 seconds or less. I ended up using 19 sounds to create my story. The story is called “Just an Average Day for a College Student,” … Continue reading →

Okay, so somehow in my infinite wisdom I COULD NOT FIND the embeddable business for the previous post I did on this 5 card flickr. Seriously, I searched.  I felt like I was on a wild goose chase.  In the end I took a screen shot and posted that. TODAY I went to the site ...

When I hear the word radio, I think there’s an old connotation is attached to it.  Rarely is it used to describe what you listen to in your car..It’s now “Sirius” or mp3 players.  When someone like me, a broke ...

To practice listening to stories, I chose to listen to This American Life (producer = Ira Glass) episode 476; What Doesn’t Kill You. This is a radio show that has a theme every episode. I chose this particular episode because I love that sayin “what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger”. This episode was filled with ...

Best with headphones!!   Woah, this assignment was so fun that I started it immediately after it was assigned. I’d grown up listening to different radio stations (mainly the ones my parents and older sister played in the car,) and … Continue reading →

cc licensed ( BY SD ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I rather enjoy spotting juxtapositions, as when I opened a cabinet in Giulia’s kitchen, and noticed a tupperware containeer with a #ds106radio sticker sitting atop a copy of The Joy of Cooking. That’s whats happening in a few hours, when I try out the new radio station platform that Grant Potter put into place recently for the radio station. For those who broadcast, its really just a few settings changed in their apps/software (the server url, and maybe the mountpoint needs to drop a “/”). For listeners, they will have to tune into new urls (see below). There is a stream status page at http://ds106rad.io:8000, but ti does not yet indicate the presence of a live stream nor does the @ds106radio twitter bot. Those recipes will happen in time. But for this week’s #ds106 show, since we are starting ...

Although people have said that Bootcamp was the hardest week in ds106, I found this week to be more challenging than any of bootcamp was. In part, this may have been because I did not start my work for the week until Thursday night due to other things going on in my life or because ...

cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by NoiseProfessor This still cracks me up, and I had rustling around my iMovie a certain comercial that I wanted to mashup, so here it is, featuring the lonliest edtech repairman (note one f-bomb in the aud...

I only like three things about the Super Bowl; the food, the commercials, and Super Saturday, when there is traditionally a big UFC event. This was my third and final year spent watching the big game at the Underground during the University Programming Council’s annual Super Bowl party. We always get a ton of food ...

Monday, January 28: Make a blue screen of death using type only Tuesday, January 29: Draw a picture of a new invention. Wednesday, January 30: Finish this sentence: “My biggest fear is…” Why I’m afraid of fish… My biggest fear in the world is fish. That is right, I am terrified of fish, animals that many ...

This week was way better than last week. WAY better.  I mean, yeah, it’s 11:25 and I’m just now doing my weekly summary, but that’s better than the midnight last week, and I spaced out most of my assignments this … Continue reading →

What Is Storytelling? To start off this week of blogging, I had the opportunity to analyze the meaning of storytelling. Storytelling takes place in every facet of life, however it was never something I thought to define. Shape of Stories Kurt Vonnegut’s description of the shapes of stories, while it is humorous, also has truth ...

This week I learned a lot about what other people and myself think about story telling. Storytelling is something that comes up in I’m everyday life whether it is on purpose or just by accident. Telling stories happens everyday in almost every subject in school for example the obvious one English. But also you can tell stories to your ...

This week I submitted a few daily creates. Describe one small thing that brings you joy, for example driving under an underpass in the rain.

This week I created a few daily creates. Take a photo of something that makes you go “NOPE NOPE NOPE!”

This week I submitted a few daily creates. Retitle a movie poster to make it more accurate.

Once upon a time there was a couple that loved each other so much that they never realized what there were doing most of the time they just know that they were romantically in love with one another. One day as they gazed into each others eyes their concentration was broken when a loud crash came in between their ...