If you had asked me 15 minutes ago if I was ‘network literate’ I would have said “yes” without even drawing breath.

I am, according to something I read online, addicted to the internet. I spend a large amount of time online every day. I have various accounts on a multitude of social networking sites, and in some cases I am proudly popular in certain communities. I am adept at using different devices and solving my own online issues without asking anyone but google for help.

But Adrian Miles has set me straight. Just because I have three active twitter accounts and can manage them without going anywhere twitter.com does not mean I’m network literate. RSS is a mystery to me. I really only use mainstream social network sites. And really, I just wing it.

Network Literacy is something that I want to improve. I want to know how to be all over my online presence, all the time. I want to learn. This course is setting me up to do just that.