about.me
Vernon Fowler
Web Analyst / eLearning Coordinator
I work as a Web Analyst in the Information & Research team on the http://www.adin.com.au/ website.
In my other job I deliver and participate in professional development related to (e)learning English as a Second Language. I also teach ESL to adults, especially English for Academic Purposes.
In free time, I work on WordPress and BuddyPress projects for small businesses, education and non-profit organisations.
On vacations, I like to travel abroad and eat icecream.
Monthly Archives: June 2008
data and meta-data
We all know data is the raw information itself. For example, the photograph or even this content you are reading this very instant, is data. So let’s talk about the content of this post. What kind of information is it? … Continue reading
HTML to blog
Our task was to build a web page utilising all the basic HTML constructs. I’ve been a Dreamweaver user since version 1.0 and I’m relatively familiar with HTML. I was excited to try hand-coding without the funky extras that Dreamweaver … Continue reading
lists versus boards
What are the pros and cons of email lists versus discussion boards? Are there certain kinds of communication or purposes more suited to one than the other? I joined the Yahoo group Bookworms Reading Group, partly out of interest to … Continue reading
tools for CHN11
I’m studying Modern Standard Chinese (Mandarin) 1A through Griffith University. It’s worth doing a search through Firefox add-ons for Chinese within language support for things like Chinese-Japanese-English Character Hint Bar Moji side-bar and dictionaries can be found at http://moji.mozdev.org/ Chinese … Continue reading
Are you browsing okay?
So you still use Internet Explorer for your everyday browsing? Ah… Why? Would you keep eating poo if you knew you could be eating honey in your sandwich? Get Firefox and see for yourself how it compares to Internet Explorer … Continue reading
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The next title for the Maundy Thursday Book Club is A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. It costs $25 at the Camberwell shops. A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan’s last … Continue reading
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5 email tasks
What information about a user’s email, the origin of a message, and the path it took, can you glean from an email message? In what cases would you find it useful to use the ‘CC’, ‘BCC’ and ‘Reply All’ functions … Continue reading
chat in the infosphere
Synchronous text-based ‘chat’ is a key element in people’s social use of the Internet. I must admit I am stoked at how easy it has been to meet classmates through the “Open University Internet Studies” public chat. Whilst I have … Continue reading
news in the infosphere
Newsgroups are an ancient form of many-to-many communication on the internet. It’s like Oprah caught in a loop, a continuous public discussion about a particular topic. Newsgroups are decentralised, which means that the messages are not maintained on a single … Continue reading