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Wiki's: a review of Collective Intelligence and Open History

It's hard to go first. It's hard to be the first person to give a presentation, or to be the first person in your family to go to college. I would say that it is equally hard to be the first person to write in the class Wiki. I think that I did a decent job writing the intro to the class Wiki, but who knows if what I wrote will be accepted as the direction the others wanted to go in. Also, being the first, how are you supposed to know how much to write? I wanted to make sure my classmates had something to write about, and I didn't want them just editing my work without including their own thoughts and ideas, not that they would have done that. Our class is really awesome.

I like the idea of collaborative writing. I like that the Wiki keeps track of each person's contribution. But then again, I think that having to share the final product with one or several other authors can be a challenge. I found my creativity a little stifled because I didn't know what the others thought. Also, I think that writing with other people has a tendency to take out the feeling in the writing. I had to remember to be as general as possible because some people may not have LOVED Scalar as much as I do. :)

As far as having an Open History, online products seem like a great outlet. History seems so broad, and touches people so differently. It is nice to be able to think that a peasant woman from China can write a different view of history than what her government writes. I think that sometimes there is no evil behind a change in history, it is just how one person or group of persons sees an event differently than another group. I am sure that Carlos Fuentes' "Espejo Enterrado" is vastly different than any text book distributed in the US. Both may be true-to their perspective authors.

As the Genie in the Box from Pee-Wee Herman once said, "two heads are better than one!" Actually, I am sure that's a pretty common expression. But as a child from the 80's, that is the first time I remember anyone saying that. It's great to have a collective intelligence. I am curious however to know who is in the collection? As the class member with less education, I feel that I have less to contribute than oh, let's say, everyone else and because of that, should I be involved in the collective intelligence part of the class? I suppose that for this reason, and this reason alone, being the first on our Wiki turned out to be a good thing for me. Also, who benefits from this "collective intelligence"? Me? I guess I would consider myself a user I were the slowest member of a track team had the rest of the team carry me on their shoulders. I also think that we are raising a generation of lazy people. If it's on the internet and you can find it, you don't have a reason to know it. What happens then during the zombie apocalypse? When all the computers and cell towers are out? These kids today aren't even going to know what to do when they get a scraped knee from falling during a frightfully close escape.

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1. Wiki's: a review of Collective Intelligence and Open History It's hard to go first. It's hard to be the first person to give a presentation, or to be the first person in your family to go to college. I would say that it is equally hard to be the first person to write in the class Wiki. I think that I did a decent job writing the intro to the class Wiki, but who knows if what I wrote will be accepted as the direction the others wanted to go in. Also, being the first, how are you supposed to know how much to write? I wanted to make sure my classmates had something to write about, and I didn't want them just editing my work without including their own thoughts and ideas, not that they would have done that. Our class is really awesome.
  
  I like the idea of collaborative writing. I like that the Wiki keeps track of each person's contribution. But then again, I think that having to share the final product with one or several other authors can be a challenge. I found my creativity a little stifled because I didn't know what the others thought. Also, I think that writing with other people has a tendency to take out the feeling in the writing. I had to remember to be as general as possible because some people may not have LOVED Scalar as much as I do. :)
  
  As far as having an Open History, online products seem like a great outlet. History seems so broad, and touches people so differently. It is nice to be able to think that a peasant woman from China can write a different view of history than what her government writes. I think that sometimes there is no evil behind a change in history, it is just how one person or group of persons sees an event differently than another group. I am sure that Carlos Fuentes' "Espejo Enterrado" is vastly different than any text book distributed in the US. Both may be true-to their perspective authors.
  
  As the Genie in the Box from Pee-Wee Herman once said, "two heads are better than one!" Actually, I am sure that's a pretty common expression. But as a child from the 80's, that is the first time I remember anyone saying that. It's great to have a collective intelligence. I am curious however to know who is in the collection? As the class member with less education, I feel that I have less to contribute than oh, let's say, everyone else and because of that, should I be involved in the collective intelligence part of the class? I suppose that for this reason, and this reason alone, being the first on our Wiki turned out to be a good thing for me. Also, who benefits from this "collective intelligence"? Me? I guess I would consider myself a user I were the slowest member of a track team had the rest of the team carry me on their shoulders. I also think that we are raising a generation of lazy people. If it's on the internet and you can find it, you don't have a reason to know it. What happens then during the zombie apocalypse? When all the computers and cell towers are out? These kids today aren't even going to know what to do when they get a scraped knee from falling during a frightfully close escape.