In this article, the author describes her experiences teaching a large-scale, book-club wiki project she designed for her students. She conducted the wiki project in order to try out this new technology. The wiki format allows teachers to provide ongoing response to assess student performance in conjunction with peer-to-peer evaluations, self-reflections, and holistic scoring guidelines. The essential nature of a wiki is to allow students to take an active role in composing while teaching them to work together to compose, revise, and edit an end product. Having made some mistakes and learned some valuable lessons through the collaborative wiki project, the author hopes her experience will shed light for others who may choose to venture into this new territory. There is a quote from John Trimbur's "Consensus and Difference in Collaborative Learning" that came to life for the author in this project--points where theory met reality. Trimbur says collaborative learning "can incite desire through common work to resolve, if only symbolically, the contradictions that students face because of the prevailing conditions of production". Here, the author illustrates how some of Trimbur's contradictions arose in her classroom, and how students dealt with these conflicts. (Contains 2 figures.)