Category: Assignment Bank
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Assignment Bank: 80’s Product Radio Commercial – Definitely Not the 80’s but Close Enough?
https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/80s-product-radio-commercial/ “Create a 30-45 second radio commercial for a product from the 80’s. Add in some background music and/or sound effects to make it sound like a real radio commercial.“ I made a commercial fitting for my character, Hwei. He is attempting to sell AI powered prosthetic body augments with the promise of alleviating pain…
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Assignment Bank: Sick beat – Making the Logic Pod Intro
https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/sick-beat/ “Make a sick beat, using whatever you can find on freesounds.org, and whatever you can record around you! I don’t care how long it is, just get groovy dood.” I bent this audio assignment a little bit to meet our needs for the podcast. I decided to go on freesound.org to find a suitable…
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Assignment Bank: Movie Voice Machines – Dr. Oblivion Leaves a Voicemail Message
https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/movie-voice-machines/ “Create a voice mail message for a character in a film or tv show” This was an assignment to create a voicemail message for a character. I couldn’t really figure out how to use one of those AI voice copiers to put in my course character’s voice, so I just used Dr. O to…
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Assignment Bank: Sound Effects Story – Hopefully my Character Made it out Alive…
https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/sound-effects-story/ “Tell a story using nothing but sound effects. There can be no verbal communication, only sound effects. Use at least five different sounds that you find online. The story can be no longer than 90 seconds.“ I actually did this assignment using the spooky story, but I realized that the spooky story falls in…
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Assignment Bank: Consult with your Doctor – I Asked Dr. Oblivion About AI Taking Over CS Jobs
https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/consult-with-your-doctor/ “If you give Dr. Oblivion (https://oblivion.university/) a question or directive, he will give a response of up to a minute, which may or may not be loaded with snark. For this assignment you should download the MP3 of the Doctor’s response, import it into Audacity and cut it up and insert your part of…
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Assignment Bank: Creating a DS106 Radio Bumper – Best Tunes with the Best People
https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/create-a-ds106-radio-bumper/ “Now that we have a #ds106 radio up and running creating a 15 to 30 second bumper for the station.“ This was my first attempt at a radio bumper, and I focused my attention on creating a catchy phrase. I came up with “The best tunes with the best people” and looking back at…
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Assignment Bank: Spooky Season – Entering a Spooky Castle
https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/spooky-season/ “Within this assigment, you must find some spooky sounds and create a scary audio clip. Select more than four sounds and overlap them on a program like Audacity. You can use Freesound to select your sounds. Make them as spooky as possible.“ I used sounds sourced exclusively from Freesound.org to create a story where…
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Assignment Bank: colorize your world – Creation of an Alter Ego using Inversion
https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/colorize-your-world/ “in this simple assignment you would take a image of anything you want, whether it is a cartoon character or an image from a movie and just change the colors around in photoshop“ I used a simple website to invert the colors of an image of my course character. Here is the tool I…
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Assignment Bank: Replay Value – Making a Dialogue Box for my Serious Course Character and Making it in Animal Crossing Style
https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/replay-value-2/ “This is one for the gamers. Tell an original story/scene by reappropriating screenshots from your favourite game!“ I decided to use a nifty website to create a video game dialogue box to convey a scene of my character, Hwei, talking to the spirits of his dead ancestors. This is the tool I used:https://sebastianscaini.itch.io/ffxiv-dialogue-overlay-maker One…
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Assignment Bank: Create Finsta instagram – Remy the Rat!
https://www.instagram.com/remythedsrat For this assignment, I created a Finsta (fake Instagram) for Remy the Rat from Ratatouille. If he had access to social media, he would most likely make an Instagram to show off all the newest recipes he’s cooking up.