I feel closer, in a way that I can't really control, when I teach with wiki then when I teach without it. It very much intensifies, for me and I think for students, our facetime in class. I can say without a doubt that barriers between prof and student have become much less sturdy and are less obstacles than different roles. My social network now indeed includes more hangout time with students, but there is a limit to that for reasons of familial and creative focus. I spend as much of my time as possible giving my complete focused self to my family,and when I have to write ( as I am more or less required to do by my job, but most importantly i have an ethical obligation to the ideas that take up residence in me. I feel compelled to explore them, seek to inhabit them, disprove them. This makes some collective time with peers and students necessary and incredibly lovely, but long sessions reading and composing are also called for in the fortress of solitude. My prediction: as soon as you cut and paste your blogs here rather just posting links, you will begin to feel closer. It's not the technology, it's the interaction, but wiki is the medium is the message. - mobius

I've noticed that you don't seem to be responding to anyone else's blogs/pages, which is a big element of the 'connection' that wiki provides. I know that I feel like I'm in constant dialogue with (almost) everyone in the class because of the commenting and cross-referencing etc. that's going on. Like mobius said, if you added your blogs here it'd be simple for the rest of us to make comments, link to them in our own pages, and draw you further into the conversations going on wiki-wide. Also, browsing through your blog (the one linked above) you seem to be focusing on issues, however relevant, that aren't specific to the course...like Ubik and Cosmic Trigger and the FBI files. Maybe if you wrote about what you thought of class, or what class discussion brought to mind, and you wrote about it on the wiki, you'd start to feel the "intertwingling". While I don't agree with or understand or like what everyone has to say, and while not everyone (or perhaps no one) likes what I say, we all get different perspectives and criticisms and ideas from the opened-up course (i.e the wiki). ~ Ceridwen