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− | [[Image:tiko.jpg|left|thumbnail|<center> HSA receives funding from anonymous sponsors through [http://continue.to/tiko the TiKO Foundation]]]</center>Students were busy at work completing a variety of [http://hsao.net/kindness.html exercises] and receiving help with class notebook passwords from [http://technologicalaspectsofart.blogspot.com Professor Boone.] However, students noticed Ms. Kelly’s absence in responding to students about their class work. Professor Boone shared some information with students in the form of a [http://hsao.net/jan30notice.jpg notice]. A [http://one.revver.com/watch/155179/flv/affiliate/29920 video] credited to The Executive Director of the [http://continue.to/tiko TiKO Foundation] explained some concern over Ms. Kelly’s last [http://one.revver.com/collections/show/113424 few video lessons], which seemed to be targeting [[Bree]] and her current situation. The video did not give specific information other than to say that Ms. Kelly needed to learn how to better serve her students. Along with the text, the video also showed firefighters battling a blazing building and an unknown man engaged in actions that appeared to be suspicious. | + | [[Image:tiko.jpg|left|thumbnail|<center> HSA receives funding from anonymous sponsors through [http://continue.to/tiko the TiKO Foundation]]]</center>Students were busy at work completing a variety of [http://hsao.net/kindness.html exercises] and receiving help with class notebook passwords from [http://technologicalaspectsofart.blogspot.com Professor Boone.] However, students noticed Ms. Kelly’s absence in responding to students about their class work. Professor Boone shared some information with students in the form of a [http://hsao.net/jan30notice.jpg notice]. A [http://one.revver.com/watch/155179/flv/affiliate/29920 video] credited to The Executive Director of the [http://continue.to/tiko TiKO Foundation] explained some concern over Ms. Kelly’s last [http://one.revver.com/collections/show/113424 few video lessons], which seemed to be targeting [[Bree]] and her current situation. The video did not give specific information other than to say that Ms. Kelly needed to learn how to better serve her students. Along with the text, the video also showed firefighters battling a blazing building and an unknown man engaged in actions that appeared to be suspicious. Professor Cedric Boone, left to run the school in Ms. Kelly’s absence, discusses his concerns with the students. Suspicious of the sponsors, [http://one.revver.com/watch/157804/flv/affiliate/29920 TiKO’s public relations video] and Rose’s plight in the hands of these individuals, he leaves [http://hsao.net/listen.html copies of sensitive material] that he had delivered as his time as a go-between for TiKO and the sponsors, and [http://one.revver.com/watch/159866/flv/affiliate/29920 posts a lesson] involving pieces of art that allude to sinister behavior on the part of those holding Ms. Kelly. Surprisingly, a new video credited to [http://one.revver.com/watch/162990/flv/affiliate/29920 HSA and TiKO] is posted that includes a calm voicemail message from Ms. Kelly, who states that the seminar has “opened [her] eyes.” Professor Boone and the class are left to wonder if Ms. Kelly willfully joined forces with her captors or if she was influenced through more sinister means. |
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Description: With much thanks to RobTomorrow for his insightful comment, we address some of the recent behavior of young [[Bree]]. [[Daniel]] and [[Jonas]] have given their devoted help to Bree. However, has she given thanks? HSA also acknowledges and thanks [[Nikki Bower]], [[ApotheosisAZ]], [http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=LG15curiousGeorge Simian Liberation Front], [http://one.revver.com/find/user/colbertNgirl ColbertNationGirl] and [[PaulMark18]] for always being so polite, creative and gracious. Thank you.<br><br> | Description: With much thanks to RobTomorrow for his insightful comment, we address some of the recent behavior of young [[Bree]]. [[Daniel]] and [[Jonas]] have given their devoted help to Bree. However, has she given thanks? HSA also acknowledges and thanks [[Nikki Bower]], [[ApotheosisAZ]], [http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=LG15curiousGeorge Simian Liberation Front], [http://one.revver.com/find/user/colbertNgirl ColbertNationGirl] and [[PaulMark18]] for always being so polite, creative and gracious. Thank you.<br><br> | ||
− | [http:// | + | [http://one.revver.com/watch/155179/flv/affiliate/29920 HSAOnline: Hard Lessons from the Executive Director] – Video posted January 29, 2007<br> |
Description: The Executive Director explains the absence of Ms. Kelly. Hopefully, she with some lessons of her own, she can realize her role and duty at HSA.<br><br> | Description: The Executive Director explains the absence of Ms. Kelly. Hopefully, she with some lessons of her own, she can realize her role and duty at HSA.<br><br> | ||
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+ | [http://one.revver.com/watch/155179/flv/affiliate/29920 HSAOnline: Lessons Continue] – Video posted February 2, 2007<br> | ||
+ | Description: In light of the absence of Ms. Kelly and knowing what we do about her views on priorities and education, we will move forward in the curriculum. Students, you will need to use your critical viewing skills to examine some art work that you will find in a gallery on the assignments page at HSA. Let us work together to explore the deeper meanings within these images. Put forth your best efforts and I look forward to what you find. And I am eagerly waiting for you to bring it. <br><br> | ||
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+ | [http://one.revver.com/watch/162990/flv/affiliate/29920 HSAOnline: Influence] – Video posted February 5, 2007<br> | ||
+ | Description: HSA and TiKO are united in education. Together in knowledge and opportunity because education begins at home. <br><br> | ||
Revision as of 13:24, 6 February 2007
Contents
HSA: The Immersive Fiction Game
Website:The Homeschoolers Aggregate
We play by the rules. And yet information wants to be free.
Students find the assignments posted on the website. Videos either reinforce a lesson’s focus, provide insight to an area of examination or offer clues to the participants to figure out the assignment’s password. At HSA, when students solve the password and are ready to post their answer in the notebook, they are said to “Bring It” to the notebook. Students who are interested are free to post their own in-character blogs that link off the HSA website.
The head of school is a woman known as Rose Marie Crandall Crowley Kelly, who is married to Phillip Crowley (no relation to Aleister). She is a very strict, yet supportive instructor who encourages her students to do their best. She expects students to follow her rules without question, and those who have questioned her have had their IP addresses banned from the site. Assignments receive responses from Ms. Kelly and student work is exhibited on the website.
Throughout each term, a back story emerges involving Ms. Kelly’s exploits and those who seem to trying to undo for reasons that remain unclear. The website offers clues, additional character blogs and links. At the end of the term, students are treated to a graduation ceremony video, an on-line yearbook and a certificate of completion. HSA has a small group of followers who seem to enjoy the intellectual stimulation of this game.
This is the first time that HSA’s creator has ever been involved in such a pursuit. Participants have been forgiving and patient as her stories unfold and her skills improve.
For an explanation of this game for potential participants, see How to Play: HSA<ref>How to Play: HSA</ref> from the HSAO website.
HSA: On the Lonelygirl15 Forum
HSA | This user heeds Ms. Kelly’s call to Study up, students!. |
The Homeschoolers Aggregate appears to be a secular forum for gifted homeschoolers to receive informal assignments in and to discuss Literary Theory, Poetry, Art, and Moral and Ethical Philosophy. Whether the Aggregate is an accredited institution, and whether it supports other subjects outside the liberal arts, is unknown.
Internet fans of Bree stumbled across the HSAOnline introductory and training videos hosted on YouTube. The source of the lonelyfans' speculation that Bree is/was a student of the Homeschoolers Aggregate is unknown, but several participants of the Tribute to Lonelygirl15 Phorum flocked to register in a new session to be administered by HSAOnline's strict but supportive educator, Ms. Kelly, who continually exhorts the students to "Study up!"
Ms. Kelly and the HSAOnline administrators seem very solicitous regarding the online privacy of their student families. HSAOnline appears to be recovering from some sort of major recent hack, based on some oblique comments from Ms. Kelly.
Many of the new HSAOnline students, like many of the fans of the lonelygirl15-inspired internet game cassieiswatching, use Bukanator's forum as a secondary clubhouse to discuss the mysterious Aggregate.
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