Tonight's Lesson - 012810

As mentioned on a recent AudioTweet, here is what we cover at the beginning tonight's lesson:

• Quickly review recent blog posts.
• Each student will be asked to respond to the question, "In your opinion what is good radio?" Answers will be written on the board by a student and recorded with the Edirol digital recorder.
• Go over Chapter 2 from the text. As mentioned on the invitation that was sent to your gmail account to share the document, I will as students to respond to and discuss each of the outline points I've listed. Students will be selected to respond if none volunteer.
• Discussion and demonstration of adding a music bed to your to voice tracks as will be required for upcoming lab assignments.

I regret that I was not able to get the Handout prepared for the next lab assignments. Fortunately, I can copy and paste my notes here:

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LAB HANDOUT WEEK 3 - BTMM 2771 - SPRING 2010

* PSA with audio bed

* Self-intro with audio bed

* 3-5 minute introduction of a classmate (an amusing story from the person's past, something unique about the person, talk about the stuff in the person's back-pack, talk about the person's music collection, talk about the person's schedule at TUJ or adjusting to life in Japan)

I will need to also provide a list of links to some different music for download sites such as:

* http://ccmixter.org

* http://freesound.org

* DC's site that he mentioned to Scott T. (should be on his twitter stream)

This should be a pretty straight forward assignment. I might then ask them to listen to a passage from Bob Fass or Joe Frank and comment upon it.

There was one other thing I was just thinking about but it has since slipped my mind.

Oh yes, a bit of talk about the final project and timeline. I will need to name a date by which they need to submit their proposal for review and discussion. Between then and now, I'll set up a document which they can put down who they are thinking of looking in to and what angle they might take in their analysis.

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The remainder of the lesson time will be devoted to student production. I will meet individually with students to discuss your earlier lab projects.