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− | Teachers and Administrators | + | [[Image:Fire.gif|right|thumb|150px|<font color="indigo">'''Often used to symbolize Ms. Kelly's relationship to fire, "Burn" is a piece by artist [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/walker_kara.html Kara Walker]'''</font>]]Teachers and Administrators |
− | + | * [http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=mskelly333 Ms. Kelly's YouTube Channel] & [http://one.revver.com/account/show/mskelly HSA videos on Revver] --Ms. Kelly, the bright, stoic and opinionated head of HSA, spends much of her time focused on the importance of structure, order and education. For reasons that have yet to be made clear, Ms. Kelly seems to be a target for sinister people who bring trouble her way. While very supportive of her students, she is very judgmental about situations that she feels lead to immortal student behavior. | |
− | * [http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=mskelly333 Ms. Kelly]- Ms. Kelly | + | |
* [http://tenrich.blogspot.com TWJaniak] -- The site adminstrator on the [http://www.lonelygirl15.com/forum/ forum], notable among the lonelyfans as the creator of a series of videos giving advice to Bree and Daniel on their growing relationship. Ms Kelly invited Mr. Janiak to be a guest speaker for the new course. TW produced a video on the topic of [http://one.revver.com/watch/79194/flv Truth in Friendship] Truth in Friendship for the current orientation class. Currently, he is viewed as a guest instructor, who offers wisdom and guidance to the orientation class of students. | * [http://tenrich.blogspot.com TWJaniak] -- The site adminstrator on the [http://www.lonelygirl15.com/forum/ forum], notable among the lonelyfans as the creator of a series of videos giving advice to Bree and Daniel on their growing relationship. Ms Kelly invited Mr. Janiak to be a guest speaker for the new course. TW produced a video on the topic of [http://one.revver.com/watch/79194/flv Truth in Friendship] Truth in Friendship for the current orientation class. Currently, he is viewed as a guest instructor, who offers wisdom and guidance to the orientation class of students. | ||
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Description: Appropriate ways to interact with peers at HSA. Visit us at hsao.net. | Description: Appropriate ways to interact with peers at HSA. Visit us at hsao.net. | ||
We need to clarify how we help our families.<br><br> | We need to clarify how we help our families.<br><br> | ||
+ | [[Image:Twjsnow.jpg|right|thumb|125px|<font color="indigo">'''TWJaniak served as an HSA guest speaker in a snowy, Friday the 13th lesson on truth and friendship.'''</font>]] | ||
+ | [http://one.revver.com/watch/72681/flv/affiliate/29920 HSAOnline Training Video: Academics]–Third video posted October 3, 2006<br> | ||
+ | Description: Follow our rules to avoid consequences.Visit hsao.net.<br><br> | ||
− | + | [http://one.revver.com/watch/79194/flv/affiliate/29920 HSAOnline presents TWJaniak: Truth in Friendship]<br> Guest Director video posted October 13, 2006.<br> | |
− | + | TWJaniak’s Description: Ms. Kelly of the Homeschoolers Aggregate Online has asked that I address her students on the importance of trust within friendships. Here is my address to her students. <br> | |
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− | [http://one.revver.com/watch/79194/flv/affiliate/29920 HSAOnline presents TWJaniak: Truth in Friendship] | + | |
− | TWJaniak’s Description: Ms. Kelly of the Homeschoolers Aggregate Online has asked that I address her students on the importance of trust within friendships. Here is my address to her students. | + | |
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− | [http://one.revver.com/watch/88516/flv/affiliate/29920 HSAOnline presents LordGreystoke: What is Reality?] | + | HSAOnline Description: Guestspeaker: We are proud to present TWJaniak, sharing an important lesson for all of our students. We at HSA deeply appreciate the time TWJaniak took to provide our students with his valuable wisdom.<br><br>[[Image:Lg422hsao.jpg|left|thumb|130px|<font color="indigo">'''LordGreystoke422 served as the HSA graduation speaker in an engaging, controversial video.'''</font>]] |
− | LordGreystoke's Description: A graduation speech to the Home Schooling Aggregate Online class of 2006 to help them prepare for what might soon slap them in the face: Reality. I am very flattered to have been asked to have such a prestigious honor. Thanks a million to Ms Kelly. She's the best! <br> | + | [http://one.revver.com/watch/88516/flv/affiliate/29920 HSAOnline presents LordGreystoke: What is Reality?] Guest Director video posted October 29, 2006<br> |
+ | LordGreystoke's Description: A graduation speech to the Home Schooling Aggregate Online class of 2006 to help them prepare for what might soon slap them in the face: Reality. I am very flattered to have been asked to have such a prestigious honor. Thanks a million to Ms Kelly. She's the best! <br><br> | ||
HSAOnline Description: We are pleased and honored to have Lord Greystoke as our keynote speaker to share his wisdom with our Orientation 2006 graduates as they end their term with us.<br><br> | HSAOnline Description: We are pleased and honored to have Lord Greystoke as our keynote speaker to share his wisdom with our Orientation 2006 graduates as they end their term with us.<br><br> | ||
Revision as of 19:38, 3 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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