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 from one sound. We will use these next week to […]
Author: cogdog
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 (Still) Matter (2014) http://youtu.be/rYwTA5RA9eU The video was inspired by Audrey […]
One Click Featuring in WordPress Sites
In consulting You Show participants on their site organization, I am trying to help them see there are more opportunities for the front page than the long river of reverse chronological ordered posts. Many themes (like the Virtue Theme on […]
I Hear There is a Noisy SPLOT in Town…
In prep for Tuesday’s You Show workshop session on audio I worked feverishly about 4 hours Monday night and 3 hours Tuesday morning to create the newest SPLOT tool, the Sound Pool. This is a place to share audio clips, […]
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 idea for our You Show Audio unit to add (or […]
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 for those who could not attend due to time or […]
Sitting in on Stormy Mondays Blues Radio Show at CFBX
After last December’s visit to the CFBX radio station on campus here at TRU I signed up for their program to be trained as a DJ. While my time here is likely too short to put the name on the […]
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 only a weak association of West with his music and […]
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 figure out. That is no great revelation. In the realm […]
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 work continuously, shaping, reshaping, letting it slump to the floor, […]
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 to it, a large welcome page, an image gallery for […]
Today’s #OneWord
Today’s The Daily is form the creative universe of Amy Burvall who does, among many amazing things, iconic sketch style drawings, making great use of lines and metaphors (plus I like teasing her about her pink, white, and black color […]