Tim Owens

May 2011

May 25, 2011

The Big Hip Hop Tutorial

One of my recommendations in the ds106 Toolbox for folks who can’t afford Photoshop (and don’t really need to) is a website called Aviary. Although I refer to it in terms of a photo editor, their suite of tools really does a whole lot more including vector editing and even an audio editor. I’ve decided to make it a personal challenge of mine that I will push the limits of these tools by using only these online web-based programs to complete as many ds106 assignments as possible. In the spirit of sharing and helping others I’m going to record some screencasts to show you the process as well. Hopefully you all will find this useful. - Read More -

May 9, 2011

The ds106 Toolbox

Looking back on the large amount of work created during the ds106 course and thinking about the reflective advice given by myself and others, it occurred to me that along the way a lot of us have blogged our process as well as the final results. Information like that is invaluable to incoming students and I’m putting this post together as a sort of “toolbox” (primarily Mac since that’s what I use but some cross-platform options) so they can have a good idea of what pieces of software and hardware they will find most valuable for content creation in ds106. It’s not exhaustive, there are alternatives to everything, but these are the parts and pieces of my toolbox that got me through ds106. - Read More -