March 19, 2014

The ZONE: Audio Mad Lib

The ZONE’s Radio Clubers received access to Netbooks, with which they assembled a Mad Lib from previously recorded audio fragments. Most recordings had transformed into the Beatle’s “Revolution 9”-esque mishmashes before they’d even unleashed the “Pitch Bender” feature upon them.

March 19, 2014

Propel Northside Radio Club: The Importance of Creativity

This week in Radio Club, we finished our time clocks from the previous week and shared with the group what our radio program would sound like. Then we had a discussion about creativity and why it’s important for ourselves and for our world.

March 18, 2014

Clairton CASTLE: Audio Mad Lib

Radio Clubers at Clairton used MacBooks to assemble an Audio Mad Lib; using previous recorded clips of verbs and nouns, as well as the “body” of the Mad Lib (secretly recorded at the SLB studios), students built a finished Mad Lib in Adobe Audition. But, rather than conforming to boring, generic coherence, most of the students rendered their finished Mad Libs into Pink Floyd’s “The Wall.”

March 17, 2014

Project Destiny Radio Club: The Radio Studio

Today, students in Radio Club at Project Destiny got to see what it takes to run a radio program. Everyone got a chance to sit in the “DJ chair” and run the mixing board. We listened to CDs, chose music from the mp3 library and interviewed each other. As you can see from the photos, a lot of fun was had. We even learned about designing a studio and the materials used to make a room sound proof and radio friendly!

March 15, 2014

YES: Sarah Heinz House Youth

From 3/15/14: Conversation about journalism and self-expression with Sarah Heinz House members Jacob Wright (photography) and Larry Moore (writing) from Perry High School, and Marcus Williams of Alderdice High School, along with Sarah Heinz House staff member Paul Boone