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Thursday, April 8, 2010

How about this?



A recent twitter re-tweet from radiointhetrees by Radio23 introduced me to a new branch of the High School for Recording Arts based in Portland, Oregon. It looks like exciting things are happening with new media and education in my home state.

I was surprised to learn that HSRA has been around for nearly 15 years. The first such school was established in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1998. Below is a description of the program:

HSRA is a project-based, public charter school that operates within and around a professional recording studio. Students earn time in the studio by completing academic projects in the core learning areas of English, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies. HSRA encourages students who may have dropped out or been expelled from traditional schools to complete their diplomas through a love of music.

The documentary above is from the HSRA program in Los Angeles, California.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Practical Exam Update

One last detail for your practical exams. Please place the Practical Exam folder you created (with your name on the folder) with all of the required files and folders in the folder title Practical Exam on the X-server. I've highlighted the folder name you should place your work in in red.

I thought I mentioned this at our last meeting. There will be 10 minute grace period at the beginning of class for students to transfer work to this folder.

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Practical Exam Guidelines

Before the next class meeting (4/6), please produce a short segment in which you back-announce one song, engage your audience with an amusing or informative bit, announce the name of your show or station, and introduce the next song song. You are free to use any music you choose. Please "telescope" the song so that only the final 30 seconds of the first song and the first 30 second of the second song can be heard. In between these two segments will be you as a radio DJ. Your spoken segment should be longer than one minute and not more than 2 and a half minutes.

The entire "Practical Exam" will be produced in Audacity. Though the segments won't be recorded as a "live" show, you should be able to make it sound as though everything is happening as we here it.

I will be evaluating this "Practical Exam" in terms of production quality and "on air" delivery. "On air" delivery includes both the sound of your audio and what you say (the sort of information a DJ should mention every time the microphone is open). Try to be entertaining and informative. You don't need to submit a script for this, but it might be a good idea to prepare an outline of things you'd like to cover during your "stop set."

Please place a folder entitled "Yourname_PE" on the X-serve. In that folder include an mp3 of your recording and all of the Audacity project and data files and folders (recall my demonstration of the correct way to store Aucacity project files and folders). Files submitted after the start of class on 4/6 will be considered late and marked down accordingly.

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