Art and the Internet

More and more it is becoming obvious that one can define him or herself as an expert and develop a presence on the internet. I think we have reached a point where people need to self-credential themselves instead of going for degrees and they have to reach the customer directly instead of going through employers, publishers, distributors, or agents. Teaching and publishing online is definitely a stronger possibility now than traditional career routes.

Backing up

—Tip—

Here's a quick tip for bloggers. If your blog host has a way to export your blog post data, you can download your entire blog to a text or xml file in case something bad happens. I do this regularly with my blog. Everything I've written here is also on my hard drive at home, just in case. I also have my lesson plan posts printed in color and bound in a three-ring binder as a teaching portfolio. I don't expect Google to lose my blog, but you never know.