Advantages:

• Synergy and collaboration
• Bleeding edge with other in your profession
• Like-minded people are available to encourage you from anywhere in the world
• Access to some great thinkers . Try the PULSE for great thinkers tackling current education concerns. You and others can comment directly.
• It DOES change your thinking when you try it.
• Opportunity to equally create resources with students
• Opportunity to collaborate with students.
• Most web 2.0 tools are free, easy to use and share.
• The challenge and creativity comes into your ideas to use the tools - that's where we want to be spending our time.
• Learning tools and skills that your students already know and use.