Photo from flickrThis week our teacher wants us to reflect on our wiki experiences. Indeed during this school year we have had two different experiences with two different wikis!
The first one was last semester with our 'personal wiki'. Our teacher created a wiki for our English course in which me and my mates collaborated with other students from New Orleans.
The course had two purposes: realizing a cultural exchange between American and Italian students and training us to collaborative writing, both purposes were realized by the means of our wiki.
It was difficult at the beginning because we were not used to collaborative writing.
We had always written our personal papers and had always been given notes on our personal job. It was difficult to get used to the idea that we were going to be evaluated on the basis of the whole wiki and not only on the basis of our pages. Moreover, our personal pages were not our, in the sense that though we created one page each, we went on editing our mates pages, so every page 'belonged' to everyone!
But step by step we got used to that and we learnt to appreciate collective writing, understanding that more people together can do certainly better than one person alone!
Our second wiki experience is still going on: this time we are collaborating in a 'public' wiki. I write 'public' wiki because, though all wikis are public, this is a wiki that already existed and many people contributed to editing it before us and are still editing it.
It is completely different, because in our wiki we felt free to write almost everything we wanted and were not so scrupulous when writing our quotations sources nor when quoting something.
In this wiki, on the other hand, we know we have to be careful and precise in what we write, we feel responsible for the pages we edit. It is a comletely different way of writing cllectively!
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