Boat-Based Business - Page 16

Cyrus Safdari · 22-07-2009, 13:57

Make your living on the Web, through affiliate marketing. Need a good idea for a website, some web design skills, and intermittent access to the internet. Everything else is done online.

Travel and tropical vacations seem like a natural subject

George Wade · 18-08-2009, 06:26

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Originally Posted by Cyrus Safdari

Make your living on the Web, through affiliate marketing. Need a good idea for a website, some web design skills, and intermittent access to the internet. Everything else is done online.

Travel and tropical vacations seem like a natural subject

Or join an existing site where you are welcome to post reasonable notices and make additions to your profile for the affiliate link buttons. I'm subscribed to a site like that for $10 a month. Later I'll get my own website better organised and linked too.

dubW · 02-08-2009, 06:15

The advent of community based WiFi and satellite communications has made working aboard a breeze. I teach on line classes for a major university - while sitting in the galley of a Pearson 27.

Zydeco · 16-08-2009, 21:48

Online teaching sounds interesting. I'd like to hear from anyone who made it work while cruising. I was under the impression that online teaching required almost daily access to a good high speed internet connection. It would be easy enough to do along the US coast with an aircard, but it seems to me that once away from the US, access to good internet connections is not quite reliable enough especially if one plans on anchoring out rather than staying in marinas.

I understand that internet access is available all over the place, but unless I was planning on staying in one place for long periods of time, I don't see how I could count on 2 to 3 hours of internet access 5 to 6 days a week. It would work good if I was staying in, say, Marsh Harbor (where I hear there is wifi available out in the anchorage) for the entire time of the class, but if I wanted to keep moving every few days or even every few weeks, it seems to me that before too long I would run into a several-day gap in internet access.

A satellite internet connection would be perfect, but from what I understand it is way too expensive to make online teaching a practical alternative.

Someone please clue me in if I am off base here.

dubW · 18-08-2009, 04:20

Remember, with most on-line classes, the professor only enters the class on a periodic basis. The class is posted and self directed by the student. Like my classes, about all I do is grade submitted written assignments. All of my tests are automated. My contact with students is limited to occasional email. Depending on the class, contact with students can be from daily to once a semester. The key is in how the class is designed.

I am taking an online class myself, other than an apparent entry into the class to post grades about every two weeks, there is no contact with the professor. I can email him if need be. Tech support is supplied by the University.

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22-07-2009, 13:57	#1
Cyrus Safdari Registered User Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 8	Make your living on the Web, through affiliate marketing. Need a good idea for a website, some web design skills, and intermittent access to the internet. Everything else is done online. Travel and tropical vacations seem like a natural subject

02-08-2009, 06:15	#3
dubW Registered User Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Coastal NC Boat: 84 Pearson 27, Erickson 23, Penguin. Posts: 15	The advent of community based WiFi and satellite communications has made working aboard a breeze. I teach on line classes for a major university - while sitting in the galley of a Pearson 27.

16-08-2009, 21:48	#4
Zydeco Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Stockbridge, Georgia Boat: 38' 1983 Pearson 385 - "Zydeco" Posts: 16	Online teaching sounds interesting. I'd like to hear from anyone who made it work while cruising. I was under the impression that online teaching required almost daily access to a good high speed internet connection. It would be easy enough to do along the US coast with an aircard, but it seems to me that once away from the US, access to good internet connections is not quite reliable enough especially if one plans on anchoring out rather than staying in marinas. I understand that internet access is available all over the place, but unless I was planning on staying in one place for long periods of time, I don't see how I could count on 2 to 3 hours of internet access 5 to 6 days a week. It would work good if I was staying in, say, Marsh Harbor (where I hear there is wifi available out in the anchorage) for the entire time of the class, but if I wanted to keep moving every few days or even every few weeks, it seems to me that before too long I would run into a several-day gap in internet access. A satellite internet connection would be perfect, but from what I understand it is way too expensive to make online teaching a practical alternative. Someone please clue me in if I am off base here.

18-08-2009, 04:20	#5
dubW Registered User Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Coastal NC Boat: 84 Pearson 27, Erickson 23, Penguin. Posts: 15	Remember, with most on-line classes, the professor only enters the class on a periodic basis. The class is posted and self directed by the student. Like my classes, about all I do is grade submitted written assignments. All of my tests are automated. My contact with students is limited to occasional email. Depending on the class, contact with students can be from daily to once a semester. The key is in how the class is designed. I am taking an online class myself, other than an apparent entry into the class to post grades about every two weeks, there is no contact with the professor. I can email him if need be. Tech support is supplied by the University.