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[http://one.revver.com/watch/134313/flv/affiliate/29920 HSAOnline: Questions, Answers and More Questions]- video posted January 5, 2007<br> | [http://one.revver.com/watch/134313/flv/affiliate/29920 HSAOnline: Questions, Answers and More Questions]- video posted January 5, 2007<br> | ||
Description: (Music: Requiem by Steve Dobrogosz) HSA Term 1/2007 Sometimes life offers more questions than answers. This should never discourage us though. As we continue our search, sometimes the answers we need the most reveal themselves. Join us for our next term when we will be exploring some of life’s most challenging questions. Let us explore, grow and create together. HSA holds registration from January 6th to January 10th. Visit us at http://hsao.net for more information. <br><br> | Description: (Music: Requiem by Steve Dobrogosz) HSA Term 1/2007 Sometimes life offers more questions than answers. This should never discourage us though. As we continue our search, sometimes the answers we need the most reveal themselves. Join us for our next term when we will be exploring some of life’s most challenging questions. Let us explore, grow and create together. HSA holds registration from January 6th to January 10th. Visit us at http://hsao.net for more information. <br><br> | ||
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+ | [http://one.revver.com/watch/137136/flv/affiliate/29920 HSAOnline:Lessons Begin]- video posted January 9, 2007<br> | ||
+ | Description: On Wednesday, January 10, we will begin with the first assignment of the term. Consider for a moment whether or not people give freely, while expecting nothing in return. As human beings, we are amazing creatures. Study up, students.<br><br> | ||
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+ | [http://one.revver.com/watch/138349/flv/affiliate/29920 HSAOnline: The Importance of Listening]- video posted January 11, 2007<br> | ||
+ | Description: As your first assignment is due tomorrow, we should review the necessary skill of communication. Stating your ideas is most important. However, equally important is the concept of listening. We should carefully listen to each others ideas to experience the most growth. I look forward to reviewing your answers to the first question.<br><br> | ||
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+ | [http://one.revver.com/watch/139414/flv/affiliate/29920 HSAOnline: Peer Interaction: Part Two]- video posted January 12, 2007<br> | ||
+ | Description: As we share our condolences with young Bree, we offer guidance and suggestions to help her maintain her purity in her current surroundings. Students, always be careful in unsupervised coed situations.<br><br> | ||
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+ | [http://one.revver.com/watch/142059/flv/affiliate/29920 HSAOnline: For Shame]- video posted January 15, 2007<br> | ||
+ | Description: We are not surprised by the recent turn of events. We really aren't. This is a rather sad and unfunny situation, overall. <br><br> | ||
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+ | [http://one.revver.com/watch/143153/flv/affiliate/29920 HSAOnline: Consideration: A Quiz]- video posted January 17, 2007<br> | ||
+ | Description: This multiple choice quiz should help us all to reflect on how our words and actions affect others. Hopefully with attention to those around us, we can all lead more thoughtful and considerate lives. <br><br> | ||
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Revision as of 03:49, 18 January 2007
Contents
HSA: The Immersive Fiction Game
HomeSchoolers Aggregate Online is a fan creation that began in October 2006 with some short, text based “advertisements” for an online program for home schooled students. The videos shared the strict rules that participants need to follow in order to remain in the program. Many viewers questioned the relationship of these videos and the HSA website to the Lonelygirl15 production. Fans soon realized that the videos and site were an independent production that ran parallel to Bree’s story. Some viewers speculated that Bree was a former participant of the program due to HSA's strict policies. Others speculated that it was a cult, trying to lure students to enroll. As it turned out, HSA was a game that followed the idea of immersive fiction more that a traditional ARG. The HSA offered no dead-drops or computer codes to break. To participate in HSA, students need to register by the deadline and complete written tasks that often help them find the password to the class notebook, a password-protected message forum. Since HSA discourages students from interacting or socializing, the message forum is the place where students leave the answers to their “assignments.” Assignments range from replying to philosophical theories, making personal connections to philosophical ideas, responding to specific pieces of art, and even, creating and sharing one’s own art work.
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
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.
Website: * The Homeschoolers Aggregate
We play by the rules. And yet information wants to be free.
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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