I have been thinking since Wednesday evening of the implications of Wikis and Blogs and how they can affect our use of the Internet. I asked my friends who are immersed in technology for their jobs if they use Wikis and/or Blogs and they all responded with negatives. They did not use them in their professional or personal life. They had heard of Blogs but not Wikis. I was surprised at this. I question myself about the importance of these two pieces of technology and why we are spending time investigating them. For me, I see how easy it is to create this Blog. For the uninitiated techy it was very easy to learn how to maneuver through the steps and pages. I was awed Wednesday evening when we were looking at Google Reader and EduBlog. The use of Google Reader was fascinating. To be able to compile the blogs you are interested in onto one site was a very useful tool. This one tool makes blogging practical for me. I know I am a baby in all of this and I sit in class and try to wrap my head around all the implications of what we are learning and I know I will be sitting six months or a year from now and it will start to hit me. Looking at the Wiki that Bill created in class showed me that this tool can be used for my school website or my neighborhood school site. I don't know if this is incredible to anyone else but as I work on the site for my children's swim team and realize all the limitations that the host site (that we pay for) has built-in I am excited at the prospects of creating a Wiki with limited access. And it is free, and easy. What does this imply for Abundant Hosting (our domain name) or ETeams where our site is created?