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Monday, June 25th, 2012Weekly Letter #5
Monday, June 25th, 2012Doing an audio weekly letter is a bit different. Hearing myself talk is super different, I had no idea that, that is how I sound… because that is definitely not how it sounds in my head! Oh well here is goes…….Week #5 Letter Home
The Cat in the Hat, What is up with that?
Monday, June 25th, 2012For this audio assignment we had to choose a book from our childhood and read it. So I decided to read, in my opinion one of the best books aside from Green Eggs and Ham, in all of history. I chose to read Dr. Seuss because out of all the books I could have possibly read, this book takes me on a journey. While reading Dr. Seuss I am truly able to escape the realities of the world and feel like a little kid again, and that is a wonderful thing. Another reason is that my Grandfather use to read this book to me all the time when I was younger, and now he reads it to my daughter…. So now I will read them to you 
Part one (story time) Part 2 (Story time)
My One-Woman Play Tutorial
Monday, June 25th, 2012For this assignment you had to pick a play and read from it. However there is a catch, you have to play all the characters. To do this assignment, I recorded my self reading from Romeo and Juliet on my memo app on my iPhone. I talked in a feminine voice when I was saying Juliet’s lines and then I gave myself a deeper voice for when I said Romeo’s lines. This assignment was a lot of fun, because this is something that I would never have done if people were around, because I would get too nervous. I enjoyed it because I was able to act, with no one watching. After I was finished I emailed it to myself, saved it on my computer and uploaded it onto here.
My One-Woman Play
Monday, June 25th, 2012I had so mu fun creating My One-Woman Play. I think that this is my favorite assignment, thus far.
Horseback Riding in the Rain
Monday, June 25th, 2012Making this sound effect story was a little more complicated than I initially expected, I am not at all familiar with editing audio on the computer. However, through the challenges of this task I feel as if my story turned out pretty well. Please take a listen to Horseback Riding in The Rain!
Jasmine’s Blog 2012-06-24 20:32:54
Monday, June 25th, 2012
My very first radio bumper!!!!! ds 106 Radio Bumper
Sound Effects Story: Fly Fishin’
Sunday, June 24th, 2012
“House fly” by YIM Hafiz, on Flickr
The ds106 Digital Storytelling course Sound Effects Story Audio Assignment 70 gave me an opportunity to devote some time developing greater familiarity with Audacity and the sound source website, FreeSound.org. While I normally would turn directly to Apple’s GarageBand for something like this, I wanted to see how layering and track editing worked in the open source sound editor.
I was pleased to be able to sort out the various tools without turning to documentation — although I didn’t sort out how to effect a pan from one channel to the other (left to right, in this instance). This will have to be a challenge for the next task. I also missed a simple way of naming the tracks to allow for their easy identification (although the waveforms do develop an identity after you’ve listened to them a few times). However, I did enjoy being able to toggle the interface for each track down to a very slim profile, as that made it easier to align two tracks that didn’t lie adjacent to one another in the stack. Cutting sections from one track was intuitive, and pasting sections into a newly created track worked just as expected.
The audio clips I used for this story are:
• Fly 1.wav
• Simulation of NASA (rocket) launch.wav
• 20061105Furnace.wav
• rocket report and scream.wav
• small_rocket_flybys_and_explosion.aif
While most were edited into the story pretty much in sequence, I did a fair amount of adjustments to the levels of each at various points using the envelope tool, and spent some time blending the Simulation of NASA (rocket) launch clip and the 20061105Furnace clip to get the rocket whine and engine launch. Each of the other three files was clipped, separated into sections, and in some instances (the fly) used multiple times to support the story.
The Andy Griffith Theme Song was sourced at: TelevisionTunes, with the intent of bracketing the story with an audio intro and outtro.
Image: House fly by YIM Hafiz on Flickr
Protecting your Creativity Selectively: “some rights reserved”
Sunday, June 24th, 2012I have done some research on the concepts of Copyright and Creative Commons. I had always known what Copyrighted work was: work registered with the government that gives the creator rights to copy, to receive credit/profits from use or display of his/her work for a time period.
Creative Commons though, I have never heard of until this course. It is an amazing concept though! It is a free copyright license, that is much less restrictive than Copyrighting your works. It allows the creator to customize their own restrictions on there works. This makes it not as restrictive, and allows people to use and even ‘tweek’ your work (if you want to) for educational purposes. It is based on the idea that creativity spawns creativity. By sharing my work freely (or semi-freely lol) with people from around the world, a creative learning community is promoted.
I used a few sites to find out about Creative Commons (yes including wikipedia), but the one I found to be most informative and helpful was http://creativecommons.org/ .
It explained the concept of creative commons, allows you to find creative works, and helps you pick out a license to your liking! Here is mine…
This work by Mohamed T. Moaz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
My Creative Commons license allows others to use and share my work, but for non commercial use only, they must credit me, and cannot alter my work at all.
Create with The Great
Sunday, June 24th, 2012
How would you like to have the support of six seven classic authors sitting at your table, collaborating with you as you compose your next great piece of writing?
My friend and colleague Doug Peterson has a new blog post waiting every morning at 5:01 am, and this morning’s post prompted me to immediately launch the web browser on my iPad to test out his latest find on the web, Google’s demo Masters Edition. Shortly thereafter, I was sitting at my computer, running a screen capture as I pounded out the opening lines to my next great epic.
Now granted, I didn’t give The Masters a lot to work with. And I would assume that in their day they needed editing for context and syntax in their writing, too — in this instance, their contributions didn’t necessarily always get the gist spot on. Perhaps I was expecting that their additions would automatically improve the quality of the writing piece, and rather, need to see them more as collaborators, merely contributing suggestions. It must be up to us as the writer to make the final call.
Here is my tentative text, augmented with colour to highlight each author’s initial contribution. You will note that a couple of extra lines were added by Poe and Shakespeare after the video capture was stopped. Clearly, those two weren’t paying attention at the time.
It was a gloomy and stormy night. Snoopy comfortably esconced huddled over his typewriter. That dratted Black Baron was up to no good again.
Suddenly, Woodstock as well as his tiny little yellow friends appeared, flittering around the dog house, attempting to cheer Snoopy up.
Under the canopy of darkness, it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage, the triplane of the nemesis of all good. “What shall I do presently?” imagined Snoopy, as he lowered his goggles and wrapped his scarf tightly around his neck. “This wilt be the undoing of me and my tiny little feathered friends!”
As the shining eye of heaven rose, and Snoopy’s Sopwith Camel rose into the sky and headed into battle, the birds began to issue forth their morning war cry, and the day was good. I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. … Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot.
Tally and My Assessment of the Contributions
I’ve indicated below my take on the contributions (how many of their suggestions “might work” out of the total number of suggestions offered).
• Nietzsche 0/0 no contributions
• Shakespeare 1/4 I kind of like “shining eye of heaven” in place of “sun”
• Dostoyevsky 0/0 no contributions
• Dickinson 0/0 no contributions
• Dickens 0/1 totally out of context, man!
• Poe 2/7 points for effort, Edgar! Not sure about that cat comment though.
While I don’t know that I would select any of Poe’s suggestions specifically, at least, “gloomy,” “as well as,” “presently,” and “imagined” kind of fit into the flow. So half a point each. But changing the Red Baron to the Black Baron is right out.
I would be remiss if I didn’t give Shultz a nod:
• Shultz Great characters, that dog house setting is a little sparse.
So. This initial attempt results in a question. Would a longer engagement with the Google Docs: Masters Edition result in improved product? (Maybe a bit more engagement on my part might help?) Perhaps the act of contemplating the suggestions of others is the intent — whether their suggestions themselves are incorporated, or rather simply serve as springboards, and create pause for reflection. Would I press on with more formal narrative writing, looking to see improvement from this tool? Or is it more of an amusement?
Perhaps you can give it a whirl and offer your own thoughts?
By the way, while a search on Google resulted in multiple instances of Shultz’s image of Snoopy typing “It was a dark and stormy night,” these two images both came from a post titled “11 Great Writing Tips and Overcoming Writers’ Block.” FWIW.
If you are interested in seeing the real time authoring, I’ll be posting it to the Youtube.
