Weeks 8 & 9 are in the books and they have been crazy ones for sure. Week 8 was full of meetings with my group of old biddies for our radio show (Melinda and Kisha), researching crime for my radio show bit, and doing my one daily create.

Week 9 was a crazy busy week as well. Writing the script for my crime segment as well as the script for my commercial, getting all of the audio recorded and then put into audacity for editing was definitely a challenge for me. I had the music I wanted for the commercial on iTunes but then had to figure out how to convert an mp4 to an mp3 to use in the audacity program. Same thing for the voice memos that I did my recordings on using my iPhone. Once I had them converted things fells into place. My group had met with a really nice guy the week before in the Digital Knowledge Center and he had walked us through the steps that were confusing us. Kisha and I worked together to get the poster done for the radio show and once Kisha was done putting all of the parts of our show together, it was just a matter of getting it loaded onto Sound Cloud. Copyright issues became a problem though and the clip was rejected. I managed to get it embeded in my blog and then just tweeted the link to the blog for access. We met online via google chat on Thursday night and broadcast our show. I think it turned out pretty well. We were all nervous being older students and not feeling a tech savvy as the younger folks but I think we even surprised ourselves.

 

I submitted three DS106 works that inspired me and blogged about each of them individually. Brittnay, Maggie, and Stefanie struck a chord with me in different ways.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I completed the two daily creates required this week. The thirty circle challenge and a drawing of winter where the ones I chose. Thank goodness for my iPhone as usual because it helped me to complete both daily creates.

I wasn’t able to get home in time from umpiring (I work nights and weekends) to listen live to the other radio shows (I thought I got home in time for the one before ours but I guess it started early so I missed it). So I will track one down in Sound Cloud and listen to it on my own. Hopefully, I’ll even be able to listen to more than one.

I was able to expand my own ds106 community and began following Maggie, Rachel, Travis, Lauren, Imran, Brittnay, and Nicky in Twitter. And in Flickr, I began following Travis, Brittnay, Chris, and Stefanie. I also commented on blog posts by Stefanie, Maggie, Syd, Brittnay, Travis, Amy, Kisha, Carmella, Nicky, and Demi.  It was really fun to see everything that people have been creating in our class.

On another note, I met with my advisor last week and he told me that my senior thesis can be on “The Wire”. I’m totally stoked and absolutely love being an American Studies major.

That’s about all that I can think of to say about the happenings in my DS106 world. Until next week…