I once wrote of the teacher's predicament when blogging. Today academic advice colunist Mrs. Mentor at the Chronicle reports of the student's predicament. The lesson? Venting in public is a form of publishing evidence that can be used against you. Seems like common sense, but students tend to err on the side of embarrassing themselves. (I once saw a website composed entirely of photos of students brazenly trashing a school facility...they wanted to share their exploits with friends but obviously they were sharing with the campus administrators and the law, too). If you're teaching with blogs, this article might be a good one to spark a class discussion about self-censorship vs. self-expression, so I post it here.

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