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: August 2008
The art of website evaluation
Since every man and his dog can publish anything on websites, we may question the accuracy of that content. Following the net.Tutor tutorial on Evaluating Web Sites, there are 6 points to consider in order to infer a reliable source. … Continue reading
annotation of search information
First, choose the best three sources found in the previous task. Using whatever software or tool you think appropriate, record the following information about those sites: URL author institution blurb/ summary / screen shot (this can be a direct copy … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Photo and Video, Sport and Recreation, Technology
Tagged NET11, WWW
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soul searching on the web – in the clouds
Engines Boolean searching Organising search information Engines Google, (in the western world at least), is such a common search engine, the very name has become an accepted slang verb! So let’s google with a query of my choosing: [Image of] … Continue reading
Swiss army knife and other tools for using the web
As we’ll be covering searching the web in the next post, this one will only provide detail on the choice search combiner tools, as well as five other handy non-search related tools for using the web. As you’re reading my … Continue reading
Web 2.0
What’s the difference? In bad old HTML, form and content were tied together. Web 1.0 resembles a fancy book with index links, whether you wanted them or not. Like a submarine, most users surfing the web were passive. Both 1.0 … Continue reading
blogging 101 – content is king
Initial belles lettres I’d been writing my own travel diaries and sending postcards to loved ones during my sojourns around the globe. Naturally I took up blogging, once I was aware of it. Way back in March 2005 I was … Continue reading
Ludmila’s Broken English
Reviewed at the Sydney Morning Herald with a weird and witty second novel, an award-winning author passes the toughest test. This is the current book for the MT Book Club. Unfortunately I can’t read it as I have stacks of … Continue reading
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Conceptual Research and Reflection Project
Concept #1: Asynchronicity Asynchronous electronic communication is not the opposite of real-time, synchronous communication: rather it describes forms of communication that appear differently ‘located in time’ depending on the perspective of the sender and receiver. (Allen, n.d) Awareness of time … Continue reading
© copyright versus fair use
Public domain (http://ww.wikieducator.org/Copyright_and_copyleft/public_domain) comprises all the works that are free to use without permission. There are a lot of works on the internet that are in the public domain and hence, not protected by copyright. Ideas, facts, titles, names, short … Continue reading