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Week 6: On the Radio

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Assignments for this Week

Full details for this week’s assignments
http://106tricks.net/2012/02/21/audio-assignments-week-6/

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Tonight’s In Class Challenge: Create an Sound Story

• Find 4 or more sounds to use.
• Edit in your audio software to create a Sound Effect Story
• Upload to Sound Cloud and add the tag ds106soundstory
• Tweet a link to your sound story.
• Write an assignment blog post, including the usual elements, and the correct tags.

See the examples posted later that the students created.

Intro to ds106 Radio

This portion was live broadcast over ds106 Radio.

Archive of introduction to ds106 Radio

• Distributed, freeform, collective webradio (Grant Potter)
• Iceast Server http://208.82.115.69:8010/
• Bumpers
  • Lock it In
  • Student, Students…
  • Not for Babies
  • Force of Nature
  • Love Show Bumper
  • ds106 will set you free
• Theme shows
• Twitter autobot: follow http://twitter.com/ds106radio (created by UMW student); Tweet things related with #ds106radio
• Storytelling: Scary Stories from Strawberry
• Live Events: Scottlo reports from Japan Afftershocks
• Field Reports: Michael Branson Smith from Occupy Wall Street
• Music Performances: Bryan Jackson & Gleneagle Concerts
• ds106 Student Radio Shows
  • Callaloo
  • Mysteriously Mysterious Mysteries
  • WSOZ Zombie Radio
• Add audio to the rotation http://dropitto.me/ds106 password=wejamecono
• Everything ds106 radio: Listening and Broadcasting, more http://bit.ly/ds106radioinfo

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Radio Show Assignment

• Details at http://ds106.us/2012/02/20/weeks-6-7-sound-off-for-audio/
• Form groups tonight! Email and /or tweet out your team name and your members.
• Start discussion genres and themes
• Blog your progress regularly, save audio raw material for documentary and outtakes.