Thing 5 - reflective practice

I feel that due to CPD23 I have learned some useful lessons about developing one's online presence.  I never really understood blogs before, but now I'm on my 6th post.  I can see the value of them, for putting thoughts down and making sense of what has been learned.  It is one thing to practice different things such as writing a blog, setting up a Twitter account etc.  The important thing is to see the difference this has made.  I now feel I can write a blog about anything, rather than needing to say something profound.  I regularly read Twitter and have found out about so many events and issues from reading this.  I have tweeted, nothing exciting, but tweets nonetheless.  These tools are valuable to our profession, not only to find out what's going on, but to share our own thoughts and ideas.  Through this, we all benefit.  Reflective writing is difficult especially with starting to write something.  I suppose the trick is write what you think first without getting too hung up on what you say or how you say it.