Thursday December 17th: time to get ALL DECEMBER SHOWS UPLOADED to ME!

Greetings, Period 6 Radio Noisemakers!

We are REALLY starting to run short on time. For one thing, we won't be here tomorrow. For another thing, after this week, we only have one day after today to realistically get any work done: Monday. Other than that, all you have is today.

SO FAR, THE ONLY DECEMBER SHOW I HAVE FOUND IS FOR Brooke/Ryan and the PIT Sports crew. FOR THE REST OF YOU, I NEED TO HAVE SOMETHING BY THE END OF CLASS TODAY. btw, if I have missed what you uploaded, please let me know

Today, the batting order to get next door is as follows:

WAVE 1: Paul/Andrew/Graham & Matt/Jake

WAVE 2: John/Craig & Brian/Lucas

WAVE 3: Derrick/Dave & Max/Mike

WAVE 4: Brooke/Ryan & Phil/Ian/Tim

This presumes that you are not COMPLETELY FINISHED RECORDING next door. If you are, then my only question must be: where the heck is your December show?

While you're waiting to go next door, here is an item missed by people on WEDNESDAY

The assignment was to either explain how to do something that you already do, or explain how to achieve some special effect in Adobe Audition. I was unable to find a discussion posting on either topic for the following people:
Calvario, Derrick
Carter, Brian
Kelley, Paul
Marcus, Ian
Muscanell, Craig
O'Malley, Timothy
Pichel, Philip

Additionally, I will need some additional information from the following people:


Lerner,David
Palmer, Michael
Steedman,Andrew
West,Matthew
Whittles,Jake
I like what you've done, but it doesn't completely fit the assignment, which is to tell me how you DO something. Could you include a paragraph or two on HOW to do something from what you wrote already please? And, please include links to useful sites that have some more information

Hamilton,Ryan
Hinkel,John
Wise,Lucas --- Excellent work, but could you upload an audio example that demonstrates this effect please?


OK, that ought to do it for this morning. Again, most importantly, YOU MUST UPLOAD SOME VERSION OF YOUR DECEMBER SHOW TODAY.

Cheers,
Mr. L

Wednesday, December 17th: more studio time and ......????

Greetings, fellow Dissonants!



Today, you will be moving in and out of the recording studio next door with all due speed -- this means, BE READY, and don't waste any time when you get in there.

You will each have 15 minutes to begin with. Here is the order in which you will go in:



wave 1: Dave/Derrick and Phil/Ian/Tim



wave 2: Matt/Jake and Brian/Lucas



wave 3: Drew/Paul/Grazammm and Brooke/Ryan



wave 4: Max/Mike and John/Craig



Then we start all over again from yesterday, time permitting.



While you are waiting your turn, you will need to do the following:



A) Add to the show you have already created next door: bumper music, on air identifiers, intro theme song. Using Audition of course. Note: I can convert any files you might need, so if you need something ripped from a CD, I'd be happy to help. Just did that for a bunch o' people yesterday.



B) Your choice of the following:



either



1) figure out at least two new features in Adobe Audition, and then post a discussion about how to do whatever it is you found out how to do, what it's good for, why anyone would want to use it. The posting must be at least two complete sentences for each effect, and ideally a link to where this sound has been uploaded to your DIV share account. THIS IS AN INDIVIDUAL EFFORT!



or.....



2) give me a little something I can add to our staff page, sort of an add on to your picture and bio. It could be anything you want to share; for instance, I know some of you like to draw, some of you play on teams, some of you can play an instrument, some of you are into gaming such as Halo or WoW, some of you are into "fantasy sports teams", and so on. Either offer me some example of what you do, whther its a picture, a sound file, a movie(?), etc etc, or explain to me how you do it. Make it as detailed an explanation as possible. Pretend I don't know jack squat about what you do, and you have to show me how I could get started. OK, that oughtta be enough exercise for today.



"the faster we go,

the rounder we get"

Mr. L

Monday, December 15: Four sessions til the break!

Greetings, noisy radio dissonants!

As of today, we've only got just a few more sessions until the break. Most of you have published December scripts, and some of you have gotten in next door to do some recording; though truth to tell, I have yet to see any actual "December broadcasts" show up in our account at Box.net.

This being the case, I am asking that each member of every group make the a discussion posting to our Google group. The discussion should consist of at least 4 paragraphs of not less than three to four complete sentences each. It should include the following

A) Title it after yourself, plus the phrase "Old and New"

B) The first paragraph should discuss anything you look forward to doing during the upcoming break

C) The second paragraph should talk about anything you wish you had gotten to do during this past year, but somehow just didn't

D) The third paragraph should be all about plans you might have for this new year that's coming up fast.

E) The fourth and final paragraph should be how you're going to connect this all to the December show you're currently working on.

This material should be worked into the current December shows you are working on. Each of you will need to get at least five minutes recording time in next door. I will begin setting up a "batting order" in a completely random fashion while you finish this current assignment.

"the faster we go,
the rounder we get"

Mr. L

Friday December 12: Fire at will!

Howdy, all you pppl with mad radio skilz!

I'm so happy its Friday, and that our programs are broadcasting, at least outside of the building. If you haven't heard yourself yet, here is the address:

http://www.hopkinton.k12.ma.us/whps/home.htm

Just click on the PROGRAMS link, then click on the Dissonance link on that Programs page.

Also, there's a link called "Staff" on the main page to your pic and bio; check it out!

While we are HERE in the school, you guys have programs to work on. Let's get going!

Cheers,
Mr. L

Thursday, December 11: it WORKED!

Eureka! It works. OK, let me back up and explain my story a little bit better. It would seem that our accounts on DIVshare do indeed work. It also seems that our website works: hooray! It would seem that we can do our work here, but cannot listen to the results online UNTIL we leave the building and go online somewhere else. AND, I cannot upload any of your files while I am at home: I have to come back to the building to do that. Savor the irony. In any event, it seems that we are indeed in business, and that we can proceed to the next step which is:

DECEMBER BROADCASTS

Here's what you need to do (if you didn't know it already)

A) You need to discuss amongst yourselves what topics you'd like to cover, then post a discussion to this effect

B) Naturally, you will need to write a script for this show: some kind of an outline that's somewhat more specific than your topic list. Try to set it up in 5 minute time slots, as I want to be able to move people in and out of production next door as quickly as possible. Post this as well

C) Get next door and start setting up your broadcast.

D) While you're waiting around, you may NOT play any games online. However, you can --and will-- set up another avatar for yourself by going to this website:

http://www.sp-studio.de/

It allows you to make a "South Park" type character to represent you on our site.

Please follow the instructions carefully, & when you have a (school appropriate) image ready, please either upload it to Box.net, or upload it to your account at Divshare, and then send me the download link.

"the faster we go, the rounder we get"
Mr. L

Tuesday, December 9: Have we found a solution?

Greetings, radio broadcasters!

Before we get into anything else, I would like you to first of all go here:

http://www.geocities.com/radiothreewhps/

This is a webpage I cooked up on my own to see if it would be possible to display some radio shows (from the other class, sorry I just happened to do theirs first!) after I have hosted them at this website:

http://www.divshare.com/

It seems that the first webpage works, and works very well because the second website seems to offer the ability to "stream" your radio shows that we have been seeking. BUT.....

Before we get too overwrought, I would like to try an experiment. I will be moving at top speed to revamp our stuff found on the school's website. In the meantime, I want EACH of you, as INDIVIDUALS, to set up your own accounts at www.divshare.com Once you have an account, I want you to upload some files -- 3 or 4 will do, as long as its stuff that you yourself have helped make during this class.

After that, you will need to post a discussion in our Google group. Name the Discussion after yourself, plus the word "divshare". Please include the exact website address for at least one of the files you have uploaded.

Here's how you do it:

A) go to http://www.divshare.com/

B) in the top right hand corner, you will see a form that asks for your first name, email address, and two places to enter a password. Please fill out the form then hit the SIGN UP button

C) On the next screen, you have to type in some random words; please do that correctly or you'll be here all day!

D) On the next page, look for the link in the top right corner that says "No thanks, continue to my account"

E) on the next page, notice that you will have to go to your email at some point to answer the email they just sent you and "confirm" your account. Either that, or they conclude that you're a bug-eyed alien robot from Neptune, and they delete your account

F) Still on this page, notice that there's a link which says "create new folder" do that, and name the folder after yourself

G) When you create this folder, notice that DivShare automatically puts you inside that folder. While you are there, click the Upload a new file button, and upload some files

H) Once these files are uploaded, you will notice that they have gotten some links attached to them. Those are the links you want to copy and paste into your Google discussion.

See how well you can get this to work. Good luck!

Cheers,
Mr. L

Monday December 8: setting up online

Greetings, valiant radio beings, and welcome back! Today, you are going to do at least these three things while I continue trying to puzzle out just why the heck your mp3 files are not working online: A) First and foremost, you need to work on the assignment begun at the very latest part of last Thursday (see it here). If it is at all possible, I would like to be able to discover at least ONE valid way of streaming your shows online, even if we have to do it through my computer only. Please do your best with this assignment, and do not be discouraged: if your first attempt does not succeed, please try another. Please be sure to record what steps you have taken as a group by posting a discussion, even in instances where it didn't work out: that way at least we will be able to know what steps we should avoid.

B) it seems that just about all of you have posted a discussion saying what you would like the world to know about you. I have uploaded the staff page already, but will be re-doing it today to include your "bios" What I would like from you is to tell me a color you would like your bio to be printed in. Here's how I want you to do this:

On Box.net, in your shared folder, there is a file called "Hexadecimal" Please download it to your computer Its a webpage so just doubleclick on it to open it up. At the top of the webpage, you will notice three controls for RED GREEN and BLUE color values, they go from 0 to 255.

When you change these numbers, the page color will change, and you will see a little code show up in the top right corner
Please shoot me an email with your name and the color code you've chosen in the subject line


C) I am aware that many of you have "loose ends" that you need to get wrapped up, esp. with regards to more studio time next door. Please don't be shy: let me know when you need to get in there, and I shall surely unlock it for you. Cheers, Mr. L

Thurs December 4, part two

Howdy there, friends and neighbors!

If you are reading this, it must mean that you have finished both the assignment on free online radio AND the latest assignment on "free online broadcasting". That much being the case, here is what needs to happen next:

Everyone in your group will need to decide which website you found is the very best for actually doing online broadcasting. ONE member of your group needs to make a discussion post which includes all the names of your group members, the name and address of the website you chose, and a one sentence explanation as to why your group chose it.

I hope you choose wisely.

Mr. L

Thurs December 4, part one

Howdy, howdy, howdy!! .....here we go!

A) you are going to create another "page" in our discussion group. This one must be named after yourself, plus the phrase "we can do online broadcasting"

B) As you may have guessed from the title, today you are going to explore the possibilities of being able to create your own broadcasts using some other venue besides the school. There's two reasons for this: 1) we might be waiting quite awhile before the school gets us set up to do "streaming mp3s", which is the stuff you could listen to on those stations you looked at yesterday 2) Long after you're out of this class, I want you to still be able to broadcast if you so choose. I'm a big advocate of free speech, and I don't think it should be limited to groups with lots of money and equipment like the school has!

C) you will be doing a Google search for "free online radio broadcasting"
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=free+online+radio+broadcasting&aq=4&oq=free+online+radio

D) You will locate at least five online broadcasting places which have at LEAST these features:

• its completely free -- what can I tell you, I'm cheap. Besides do YOu have money to burn?
• it allows you to broadcast some sort of radio show without lots of special (and expensive) hardware or other equipment
• it doesn't require a credit card -- even when something's free, sometimes they want a card number, go figure!
• it allows you to do it from any computer you want; in other words, we're not limited to the equipment we have here at school
• Hopefully, there's no software to download and install

E) In your "page", list the website addresses AND the names of each of these five websites

F) for each of these websites, write one paragraph of at least two to three complete sentences explaining how the site is supposed to work, how you sign up for it, what you can and cannot do with it, etc etc.

G) Finally, recommend at least one of these sites as the best you've found

Cheers,
Mr. L

Wow, it's December 3!!! --- Part One

Greetings radio children!

As you know, I try to make all my classes as practical as possible. I also try to give you opportunities which you can make use of long after the class is over. I also try to go around any difficulties we come up against. You may have noticed that we have had some technical difficulties getting some of our shows to play. Also, we STILL do not have the ability to "stream" these shows, meaning they start playing as soon as you click on them. I would like to start fixing that. Here's what I want you to do:

1) do a Google search for "free online radio" This will bring up a startlingly HUGE number of hits. Apparently, there are a lot of people doing broadcasting out there online.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=free+online+radio&aq=f&oq=

2) Pick out at least eight of these sites to investigate. Make sure you record somewhere the name of each site, plus the website address

3) Your sites must include at least two different "genres", meaning they play at least two different kinds of broadcast. I haven't looked at them all, not by a long shot, so I don't know everything that's out there. See if you can find stations out there that do the stuff you've been doing, whether its sports, hard rock, gossip and celeb stuff, gaming, politics, etc etc.

4) For each one of these stations, list at least two things they do that you wish we could do, if it were possible.

Please make all this information available in a PAGE called "What's Out There - Part One"

Ahhhhhh, but what the heck is a "page"? Well, its kind of like a discussion posting, only it allows you to create instant links to websites simply by typing in the address then hitting ENTER. Or, you can copy and paste, then hit Enter. Either way, please make sure that all the information I'm asking for is listed on this page.

Cheers,
Mr. L