The end?

So...a while ago I added a new story to the bottom of the main wiki page that involved (and although it's easy for anyone to see on the wiki, it's a bit embarrassing to post this on the blog) professor (KF) as God. I don't know if people hated my addition or just didn't know what else to put after it (I kept checking and imagining cricket noises in our classroom). Anyway, since it's the last day and I've been itching to add a little more, I did. And I think I've added some sort of closure to the wiki, but I'm not entirely sure. Obviously, please edit or delete or add if you want! If you didn't like my prof=God story-line, then you probably don't like my ending. (Though, honestly I don't intend it as a full and complete ending.)

On a related note, there have been a lot of positive posts recently about the class wiki. I will add my two cents and say that I, too, has a surprisingly good time working on it. I say surprisingly because it took me a long time to get into in. After all, I was the one who, in response to the silence following KF's question a month into class about how the wiki is going, timidly said, "I'm scared to write anything!" And I certainly was. I was overwhelmed at the beginning by the number of story-lines and felt like everyone would get made at me if I tried to join but "messed up" a story. Soon I realized, though, that that's the beauty of collaborative work. First of all, if you make a change in a story that others don't like, they can change it back. And, secondly, I didn't have to enter or add to all of the stories (or understand all of the stories) to join in.

Of course, there were still some things that threw me off about the wiki. One thing that initially frustrated me was that I had started one story line, and was planning on soon entering a subsequent page, but someone else found the story and entered in their own take on what the next action would be. I was ticked for a second, then realized that I liked what that person added, and I could go off of what she said! One thing, though, that I still can't come to terms with is the ability to edit. I'm certainly glad that there are people who edit the entries, and I always really appreciate having my entries edited, but there have been a few times when it wasn't a grammatical mistake but a word (that I had chosen on purpose) that was changed. I didn't know what to do...I certainly could change the word back, but that somehow felt wrong or belligerent. It's just hard when people edit your work without being able to talk to them, I suppose, and explain why you included a certain part of the narrative or even described something as you did.

One more thing, then I'll stop my rambling. I think it's interesting that the wiki seemed to work so well, yet the discussion pages of the wiki didn't work as well. We usually ended up turning to our blog to discuss the wiki. I don't think this is a bad thing; it's just interesting. I guess it shows that both the blog and the wiki were successful in their own ways!