The Daily Shoot #ds569 – What’s it like outside?, originally uploaded by Rowan Peter.
What’s it like outside where you are today? Make a photograph that shows the world.
Apartments in Namchondong, Busan, South Korea.
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The Daily Shoot #ds569 â Whatâs it like outside?
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
Another four icons
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
Yeah, I know the current SOB iteration of DS106 covered design/visual a few weeks ago, but I had this idea for another 4 icon challenge tonight and decided to throw it together.
7-11-11 ds106 Live Broadcast: Web Storytelling
Monday, July 11th, 2011
In today’s video Tim Owens and I take you through the Web Storytelling assignment step-by-step. This assignment is due Wednesday at midnight. Please post it to your blog and tag it as “webstories” (no quotes).
Please note the ds106 radio shows are due tonight (7/11) at midnight and the shows will air tomorrow starting at 1:30 PM and run through the evening. Be sure to have one of your group members following the radio stream during that time and have access to Twitter and Skype so that you can come on the radio and talk about your radio show. You can get on ds106 radio by following these directions: http://bit.ly/radio4life Keep in mind there will be no formal class tomorrow, but you will all be asked to monitor the ds106radio station from 1:30 PM on.
On Wednesday, 7/13, we will start the introduction to the video section of this course at 1:30 PM. Please be ready to contribute your favorite web video examples during this session, which will be led by Jim Groom’s twin brother Tim Groom.
On Thursday, 7/14, Andy Rush will take us through the specifics of web video, covering everything from codecs to compression to video editing tools and more. This session will also be held at 1:30 PM.
Best,
Martha Burtis
Officially Done
Some examples of ds106 radio shows and bumpers
Friday, July 8th, 2011
It occurred to me that Jim Groom, given his altered state, may not have given the class some examples of radio shows that have been done already in what was once simply #ds106. Therefore I have taken it upon myself, as a good professor, to provide you with some solid examples of both radio shows and bumpers from previous courses to use as a model as you create your own.
The idea behind the radio show is to frame a series of stories/narratives that experiment with telling stories orally through sound on the radio. While the bumpers are used to both to promote your show, as well as transition neatly between different sections of your groups show—if they are, indeed, distinct. Bumpers can be very short, i.e., 15 to 30 seconds, or as long as a minute. The general theme for the show should be focused around Summer Camp or Summer of Oblivion. Hopefully either gives you room to experiment. Ideally your group will work together to come up with a show that is both coherent and original. What’s more, it should be something that you all can work on together or individually. That said, please try and make it work as a longer, compelling show that is at least 5 minutes per person as a rule (or 20 minutes if there are 4 groups members).
If you want examples of shows from students in the previous classes, see my May ds106 course’s “Dog Days of Summer” show here:
Also, there are a number of radio shows you can access here from the Spring semester
And here are some bumpers:
I hope this helps you all in your quest! What’s more, I have taken the liberty to extended the deadline for the final radio shows from Sunday at midnight to Monday at midnight.
7-7-11 Live Broadcast: Jim Groom Missing, Assignment Reminder, and Web Storytelling
Thursday, July 7th, 2011
What follows is a copy of the email I will be sending out to the ds106 Summer of Oblivion course members shortly.
All,
Here is the link to today’s abbreviated course session:
Keeping up with the ds106 Radio Show
In light of Jim Groom’s disappearance, I think I need to step in and establish some kind of order and reaffirm that we must remain one as a class, and put all our divisions aside. What’s more, you must get your assignments done! Today’s video was short and sweet, and provided a review of where we are and a look at where we are going—with or without Jim Groom.
As a quick recap. you should already have your radio groups formed and each group should have a name and list of members on this wiki page here. Also, your groups :30 second and one minute bumpers are due for your radio show by tomorrow, Friday, July 8th, at 5 PM. In addition, the show is due no later than midnight on Sunday July 10th (this deadline is not negotiable). Finally, the shows will air on Monday, July 11th starting at 2 PM and going through the evening.
Telling Stories in/on the Web Assignment
What’s more, as a look of things to come we will be experimenting with web storytelling, wherein you each will be asked to hack a website and make it your own. Here is an example I worked on today to give you an example of what one of them might look like:Â http://marthaburtis.net/ds106_amazon.html
This assignment will be the subject of Monday’s course, and the course will be centered on this assignment but in order to get a head start see the video about how to execute this assignment here and the very detailed tutorial here. You can see some ideas and the vision of this assignment on Jim Groom’s blog here, before he lost it entirely.
Steady and strong wins the race,
Martha Burtis
Have you seen this man?
Friday, June 24th, 2011
Early Indoctrination
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
Madigan’s summer break started this week. For the last two days, she’s discovered a new favorite TV show.
The Childrensâ Season: DONE
Sunday, June 5th, 2011
Last night I finished up my segment for the Ds106 radio show “Dog Days of Summer” that my class will be broadcasting on Monday.
The Childrens’ Season by mburtis
Overall, I’m really happy with how it turned out. I used audio that Leslie and Jim submitted of interviews with their children as well as a short interview I did with Madigan. In addition, I found a couple of interesting video clips on the Internet Archive. The first was a documentary about a progressive British summer camp for kids during World War II. The other was a documentary about a summer community program for teens in NYC during the 60s. I liked the sounds and stories behind these films, and decided to incorporate them into the overall segment.
I also tracked down some Creative Commons music that I used throughout the segment.
Here are links to the source material:
- Popsicle Summer by Viola
- A Child Went Forth (on the Internet Archive)
- Play Street (on the Internet Archive)
- The Return of Summer by Jeff Wahl
- L’Ă©tĂ© s’en va by Laurent
I have to say I loved working on this project. I need to push myself to do audio more, because I find it so satisfying. When I was working on the piece I could hear in my head what I wanted it to sound like. Sometimes I was able to actually execute my “vision.” Other times, as I worked with bits and pieces of the tracks, I heard new things that I decided to use instead.
There is definitely a kind of media fluency involved in working with audio like this that is a challenge to develop and foster. Simply wrapping my brain around the different tracks in my head and associating those ideas with the actual tracks in the software is a huge challenge for me. It’s like I’m having to develop a cognitive understanding of the media and the way it overlaps and intersects. It’s very different then constructing text narrative or meaning.
The Childrensâ Season (In which I beg for your help)
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
This week in Digital Storytelling, the class is working on a radio show in which each student is responsible for contributing 5 minutes of audio. The theme of the show is “Dog Days of Summer” (chosen by the class). We’ll be broadcasting it live next Monday during class. (If you’re at UMW, feel free to come be part of the live studio audience on Monday morning in duPont 310.)I’m going to work on a contribution to the radio show, too. My “take” on this assignment is going to be to consider the Dog Days of Summer through the eyes of children. As a parent, I can tell you that summer definitely feels like the childrens’ season. Parents spend a lot of time thinking about how to construct, schedule, and manage kids’ summer vacations — camp, travel, play dates. Part of it is out of necessity (since working parents need to make sure kids are taken care of during the summer) and part of it is a sort of strange cultural construct (at least in the U.S.) that increasingly seems to suggest that children need to be “scheduled” when they’re not in school. As a child, my summers were hardly scheduled at all. I spent my days reading, playing with friends in the woods, and hanging out with my brother. A few times my mom sent me to daycamp, and I HATED it.
For my segment, I want to collect audio that has to do with children in the summer. I’d like one significant portion of this to be informal interviews with children about summer/summer vacation. This is where I beg for help from my audience. If you’re willing, please consider sitting down with your kid(s) for a few minutes over the next day or two and recording a brief conversation with them about summer. I’m not looking for anything very structured, but here are a few ideas to get you started:
- what is summer? (good question for the littlest ones)
- do you like summer? why?
- what are you going to do this summer?
- what’s the best thing you did last summer?
- do you have a favorite song you like to sing in the summer? Care to share?
Hopefully, you get the idea. I’m hoping I’ll get some interesting stuff that I’ll compile into a kind of soundscape of summer, as seen through the eyes of kids. I’m collecting some other interesting audio from around the Web that I’ll be throwing in.
If you want to contribute, you can upload the file to my dropbox at http://www.dropitto.me/mburtis (password: may11ds1o6). Or, send it to me on email, Facebook, in Soundcloud, drop a link in the comments below etc.
If you’re new to recording audio, I’m not looking for anything fancy. SoundCloud is a free service where you can set up an account and record directly in your browser. (You can use the microphone right in your laptop). Another option is a Web-based program called Myna. Both of these require accounts, but the basic accounts are free. If you’ve got an iPhone or the newer iPod Touch, there is a recorder (called Voice Memos) built right into the device. When you sync to iTunes, the audio downloads right into a Playlist called Voice Memos. I’m pretty sure Android phones have a similar app. If you get the audio and can’t figure out how to get it to me, just leave me a comment below — I’ll help you figure it out!
