Mon Dec22 LAST CALL FOR DECEMBER SHOWS!

Greetings, one and all!

Today, you have one simple assignment: get me your DECEMBER RADIO SHOWS! So far, these are the people from whom I have this very important (for your grade!) file:

Keith, Trevor, JP

Brendan D

Ben and Tyler

For the rest of you, there is no sign of a December show whatsoever, except for Nicole, who uploaded her session file, and not the exported mp3.

YOU NEED TO PASS THESE IN RIGHT NOW. NOTHING ELSE WILL HAPPEN IN THIS ROOM UNTIL I GET EVERYONE'S DECEMBER SHOW.

Mr. L

Friday, December 19: THIS DAY in HISTORY

Greetings from across all borders and boundaries:

Hello children, and a thousand pardons that I could not be here. Here is your assignment for today:

A) Most of you should have DECEMBER radio show that you have uploaded to your computer. If this is the case, I need to have a copy of it ASAP (For the rest of you, we will need to finish it on Monday, assuming we don't get buried in an avalanche by then.)

B)For the remainder of today's class, you will need to create either a Discussion or a Page on our Google group. Here is what it will have to be about:

1) You have already interviewed at least 2 or 3 of your classmates. Now you will have to decide which person you would most want to interview, besides a family member or personal friend. Choose wisely, because you can only choose ONE PERSON

2) You must pick out ONE important event in that person's life to talk about. For example, I would either choose
President Reagan, when he stood in front of the Berlin Wall and demanded that it be torn down http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjWDrTXMgF8
http://www.reaganlibrary.com/reagan/speeches/wall.asp

OR, Jimi Hendrix, when he played the Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_nO0F4ugss
http://www.jimi-hendrix.com/magazine/502/502,features,nationalanthem.html

Notice that I have links to both these events. You will need to gather some links of your own. Just figured I would warn you.

3) You must come up with at least seven questions you would want to ask this person, based on that event. Your questions must be posed in the form of a complete sentence

4) You must come up with at least a two sentence ANSWER for these questions. What do you think this person would actually say? You must base this on some references you can find online. Here's where you list your sources. And please, don't just list http://www.google.com/, or http://www.wikipedia.com/ -- how LAME! List the actual website addresses. You should have at least three of them.

As I said, please post this as a Discussion. Also, I will need you to print it out, with your FULL NAME at the very TOP of this document, and hand it in to my substitute.

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

Thursday, December 18th: Time to get ALL December shows DONE!

Greetings, Period 3 Radio Noisemakers!

We are REALLY starting to run short on time. For one thing, I won't be here tomorrow --sorry, but I have another commitment that I cannot get away from. Fear not, I will leave an assignment which must be done. For another thing, after this week, we only have one day to realistically get any work done: Monday. Other than that, all you have is today.

SO FAR, I CANNOT FIND A DECEMBER SHOW FOR ANY GROUP IN HERE. I NEED TO HAVE SOMETHING BY THE END OF CLASS TODAY

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

WAVE 1: Trevor/Keith/JP & Mike/Zach

WAVE 2: Kate & Nicole

WAVE 3: Wesley/ZHutch/BrendanL & Brian/Greg/Thiago

WAVE 4: BrendanF & Ben/Tyler

WAVE 5: Mateo/Mason

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 Tuesday:

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:

Zachary DiFranza
Brendan Driscoll
Jeffrey Dufficy
Brendan Fitzpatrick
Benjamin Greff
Brendan Litavis
Mason Missaggia
Nicole Rumrill
Tyler Sullivan
Brian Tate

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


Mike Cronin
Mateo Bravo
Greg Hadley
Mason Missaggia
Brian Tate

I like what you've done, but it doesn't really 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?

Thiago Mendes
Zach Hutchinson --- Excellent work, but could you upload an audio example that demonstrates this effect please?

Wesley Eriksen, Keith Bohlin and Kate Bransfield -- again, very cool, but I was hoping you could include some links and a set of instructions for getting signed up for an account

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

Tuesday, December 16: More recording, and.....?

Greetings, fellow aquarians!

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: Kate and Mike/Zach

wave 2: Nicole and BrendanF

wave 3: Ben/Tyler and Mateo/Mason

wave 4: Trevor/Keith/JP and Brian/Greg/Thiago

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. Offer me some example of what you do, whther its a picture, a sound file, a movie(?), etc etc, 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: Five sessions til the break!

Greetings, noisy radio aquabats!

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

Thursday Dec. 11: Stuff ya gotta hand in, part One

Greetings, radio children,

There are some items missing from the list of things you have been doing over the past several days. Here is who owes what (and needs to do it now)

Naturally, if you've done it and I just missed it, please show me where it is, ASAP. AND, send me the link to the EXACT webpage where I can get this info, by EMAIL

Online radio stations (part one) ----
the blog post for this is found HERE
Brendan Fitzpatrick
Mason Missaggia
Tyler Sullivan


We can do online broadcasting(part two)---
the blog post for this is found HERE
Mateo Bravo
Zach Difranza
Jeffrey Dufficy
Wesley Ericksen
Brendan Fitzpatrick
Trevor Flaxman
Gregory Hadley
Zachary Hutchinson
Brendan Litavis
Thiago Mendes
Mason Missaggia
Nicole Rumrill
Tyler Sullivan
Brian Tate


Setting up online at DivShare
the blog post for this is found HERE
Jeffrey Dufficy
Mason Missaggia

Creating and geting to me a SouthPark type avatar
the blog post for this is found HERE
Mateo Bravo
Michael Cronin
Zachary DiFranza
Brendan Driscoll
Brendan Fitzpatrick
Trevor Flaxman
Thiago Mendes
Mason Missaggia
Nicole Rumrill
Tyler Sullivan
Brian Tate
Tyler Sullivan

Posting a Discussion about December scripts/topics for radio shows
the blog post for this is found HERE
Brendan Fitzpatrick
Benjamin Greff
Sullivan Tyler

Naturally, you also all need to actually be getting next door and working on your radio shows

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

PS There will be NO gameplaying of any kind until I am perfectly satisfied that ALL these assignments are completed. If you do attempt this, I will simply be foreced to ask you to set down in writing why felt compeeled to ignore this ruling.

Wednesday, December 10: we DID find our solution!

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: We might have found our 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 your radio shows 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

Friday December 5: finishing up the week

OK, last day of this week: time to put all the threads back in the sweater. Before I begin with the big stuff, I need the following from just a few people:



Photos for the staff webpage: I still them for the following people:



Mike Cronin -- sorry Mike, but the picture came out way too blurry to be used.

Ben Greff

Tyler Sullivan



What I want the world to know : bios are still owed by the following people:



Brendan Fitzpatrick

Mateo Bravo

Mason Missaggia

Tyler Sullivan



OK, now that we have THAT out of the way, here's is what I want y'all to be able to do, AS GROUPS:



Use one of the "online broadcasting" websites you found yesterday as a result of the research assignment we started on Tuesday Your group should make your best attempt to set up an account so that you can actually broadcast something you have created. My best suggestion for what you will broadcast would eb the "on air identifier" you made some weeks ago: they're small and easy to work with.



If you succeed, please make a discussion posting titled after your names plus the phrase + the phrase "we're on the air". If it doesn't work, please email me to let me know that you will be trying one of your other websites



Cheers,

Mr. L

PS There is one other SMALL assignment. It has to do with finding a color you like using a webpage called "Hexadecimal". This webpage can be downloaded from the folder you share on BOX.net When you get a chance, please use this page to find a color you like, then email the exact color code that it produces.

PPS As always, no game playing online or offline, and no "fantasy sports" sites used. Also, you must keep all electronic devices --including cellphones, mp3 players, gaming units, etc etc-- out of my sight. If I see it, I'm owning it, and you can get it back from the powers that be at the front office. 'Nuff said!

If you are truly done with everything, come to me, as I have some special stuff planned.

Thurs Dec. 4: setting up online (we hope!)

Howdy there, friends and neighbors!

It would seem that MOST of you have gotten done the first half of the assignment from Tuesday, the Google group page you had to make, which was all about "free online radio" SOME of you have even gotten a good start on the other half of that lesson, which was to make a page about
"free online radio broadcasting", although none of you seems to have completed that assignment. Sooooooooooooooooooooo, this is what needs to happen:

A) Everyone who started the latest assignment needs to finish it.

B) All the rest of you need to do it too. Just click the link above for free broadcasting.

C) Once everyone in your group is done, you 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

PS When you have done this, your entire group needs to come to my desk for further instructions. There's a couple of other things you'll need to do, but they're a little tricky to explain this way.

Tues. December 2, PART TWO

Howdy, howdy, howdy!!

If you're reading this, it means you've finished up with all the items listed in part one. Either that, or you like living dangerously. Either way, here is what you need to do for this section:

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

Tues. Dec 2. PART ONE

Greetings, radio luminousities!!

Before we get going with the second part of today, there's a few things that we need to finish up:

A) November shows -- I am missing shows from this past month from the following people or groups:

Michael Cronin Zachary DiFranza

Brendan Fitzpatrick

Benjamin Greff & Tyler Sullivan

Gregory Hadley Thiago Mendes & Brian Tate

Nicole Rumrill

B) November shows that are too short -- In case I have not made this plain, your radio shows need to be at least 10 minutes long. The following shows fall into this category:

Katherine Bransfield 3 minutes so far
Brendan Driscoll 5 minutes so far
Wesley Ericksen Zachary Hutchinson & Brendan Litavis 4 minutes so far

C) What the world should know -- this was first assigned last week, then re-assigned yesterday. here is the link for it:
http://noiseaquarium.blogspot.com/2008/12/missing-work-please-help-your-uncle.html
(its in the part B section on this posting)

and here is the list of those who need to get it done:

Mateo Bravo
Michael Cronin
Jeffrey Dufficy
Wesley Ericksen
Brendan Fitzpatrick
Benjamin Greff
Zachary Hutchinson
Brendan Litavis
Mason Missaggia
Tyler Sullivan
Brian Tate

D) yesterday's assignment about online radio stations -- There were several people who did not get around to completing this assignment either:

Mateo Bravo
Michael Cronin
Brendan Fitzpatrick
Benjamin Greff
Mason Missaggia
Tyler Sullivan
Brian Tate

I will be posting the second half of today's festivities momentarily. If you see your name anywhere on this list above, you need to tend to this first!

Cheers,
Mr. L

missing work, please help your uncle Paulie find it, OK?

hey guys, still waiting on some last minute stuff for your grades. I cannot wait after this morning, because the grades have GOT to be in there ASAP. Here's what I'm looking for:



A) I'm missing a whole bunch of interviews; those of you who owe them will be advised to get them to me. Likewise, many of you did not complete some very simple postings, such as the topics for your latest broadcasts, the actual scripts for these broadcasts and "seven jobs in radio". If I'm simply overlooking any of this stuff, please point them out to me.



B) While we're at it, there was an assignment that I asked you guys to do "if you had time": a brief bio of yourself, your interests etc labeled "what I want the world to know". Most of you haven't had a chance to get to that, so here's the assignment parameters again: "Finally, and this is ONLY if you have time, I would like each of you as INDIVIDUALS to start thinking about what you would like the world to know about you as part of this radio station. Think about what you would most want people to know about you. Jot some ideas down, and post them. Again, this is ONLY if you have the time; if not, don't worry, we'll get to that next week"



GET THIS DONE TODAY PLEASE