I wish I could have attended Jill's talk at Brown yesterday titled "Weblogs: Learning to Write in the Network." She talked about network literacy, which I'd like to learn more about. Jill defines network literacy as "writing in a distributed, collaborative environment [...] Bringing network literacy to the classroom means jolting students out of the conventional individualistic, closed writing of essays only ever seen by your professor." The post is well worth reading; my only point of criticism is that Jill says she talked about the ethics involved in requiring students to blog in public, but she doesn't go into detail on that issue in her post. I'd love to hear her thoughts on that. I told my students that if they were concerned about privacy, they should make up a nickname that would appear under their posts. They should share the nickname with me and the other students in the class, but no one else. A few students opted to do that, but most did not. They also were not required to put any personal-experience writing online.