Tim Owens - Throw Out The Manual (Page 15)

Tim Owens

Mozilla's School of Webcraft

Mozilla is taking submissions for the January semester of free, open, online courses that teach web development in partnership with Peer 2 Peer University. First time I've heard about this, and it looks awesome.

Vimeo Video School

Over 800 lessons on video production from gear and shooting to editing and sound.

I made tea.

Scott McClellan has an excellent post out: A Call to Edit. Go read that first. Now check out this great tool. Take any text and begin expanding it. I'm trying to think how this could be used as an activity in reverse. Take a large body of text and reduce

Rise of the Mashup

A constantly recurring theme I'm seeing in viral design work is the idea of mashups. You know, taking 2 unrelated things and putting them together for fun and mischief. Mashups seem to have many elements that appeal to our senses: The unexpected, humorous situations, cult classics and nostalgia. I've already

365 Projects

As we prepare to close out 2010 and start that annual ritual of forgetting to write 2011 on everything with a date field, it's a popular time to start a 365 project. These types of things are notorious for failing (and you know what? That's ok too) but they can

creative prompts

A few ideas for ds106

I mentioned previously that I'm going to be taking part in ds106, a free and open online course on digital storytelling curated (he hates to be called the leader) by Jim Groom. Tom Woodward has already put out some excellent assignment examples. Having a background as graphic designer is pushing

Finding My Voice

Staring at this box and wondering how many times I've been here before. The blog is just one example of course. I've started and stopped and started Twitter again. Join a group on here, sign up for a mailing list there, commit to finally getting off my ass and creating