BLOGGING!
Depending on what you are looking for, there are several Bloggers worth following.
I like to follow Kathy Schrock http://blog.kathyschrock.net and George Couros, http://georgecouros.ca/blog/# I also follow Matt Miller, http://ditchthattextbook.com (although it is more of an article based website, you can follow him on Twitter and receive regular emails with new resources such as :#EdTech Resource) and Global Citizen Digital Foundation, https://globaldigitalcitizen.org/21st-century-fluencies/solution-fluency Within this site are different blogs to follow.
I have posted before on my endeavour to one day become a regular, contributing blogger. Until then, I will continue to follow and learn from various shared Bloggers. The biggest advantage to following others is the advancement in your own learning that comes from collaborating. I would surmise that the biggest disadvantages would be complacency, privacy and accountability. Once information is out there it is never coming back and you never know what people will do with that information. You'd hate to have a bad day and type the wrong thing for millions of people to read and misinterpret because lets face it, reading of anything-books, texts, blogs etc, is an individual interpretation/mindset of information.
That said, I will choose to see the good over the bad and in this case, the wealth of knowledge received supersedes potential pitfalls. Until I feel I can navigate and mostly master the true art of blogging, I will continue to sit back, learn and be in awe of all the information that is available and the masterful distribution of information, ideas and resources.
Cheers!
