Collecting Sounds for You Show Unit 4
For the first part of Unit 4 of the You Show we ask people to collect sounds they might use for a Sound Effect Story or to create a composition […]
Mashup Video: The MOOCing Machine
From Sydney Pressey to MOOCs to Teaching Machines. The video from Sydney Pressey’s Teaching “Machines” (1964) http://youtu.be/n7OfEXWuulg here is remixed with audio from Anant Agarwal’s “Why Massively Open Online Courses […]
The Making of You Show Episode 4
Episode 4 ushers in the audio unit and was a chance to take advantage of D’Arcy Norman’s visit the week before. We wanted to do cameo’s where possible. And we wanted to make use of a lot of sound. We … Continued
Crossing the Streams Audio Recording and Speech to GDocs
Sometimes I get lucky and two ideas on different paths cross paths right in front of me. It’s a matter of just reaching out and grabbing them. Brian had an […]
Alan’s Way of Audio Recording Presentations
For today’s You Show Prime Time event, TRU’s Jon Fulton did a great session on audio recording techniques and equipment. I’m usually thinking about ways to archive, capture such sessions […]
The You Show Episode 4: It Sounds Like Audio
This week of the You Show opens a two week unit on audio (add link). In this episode, Brian and Alan talk about the creative capability of audio as a media form and the subtle elements that make for effective … Continued
Listening to Brother West
I was certainly curious last week to attend the Cornel West talk that is part of the TRU Student’s Commons Voices series, not knowing quite what to expect. I have […]
Highs and Lows of Technical Problem Solving
There is little like the satisfaction, no that is to tame a word, the exhilaration of solving a problem that you had never addressed before, or thought you could not […]
Shaping the Blogfolio
Although I have never worked with clay, I am reaching for the pottery metaphor here. This site, this series of reflections, these bits which may assemble as a portfolio, I […]
Randomizing the SPLOT
The theme I set up for the SPLOT site is a landing page style one called Onsie (free one page responsive theme from Graph Paper Press). There is not much […]