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'''Website:[http://www.hsao.net/ The Homeschoolers Aggregate]'''<br> | '''Website:[http://www.hsao.net/ The Homeschoolers Aggregate]'''<br> | ||
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<br>''For an explanation of this game for potential participants, see [http://hsao.net/whatishsa.html How to Play: HSA]<ref>[http://hsao.net/whatishsa.html How to Play: HSA]</ref> from the HSAO website.'' <br><br> | <br>''For an explanation of this game for potential participants, see [http://hsao.net/whatishsa.html How to Play: HSA]<ref>[http://hsao.net/whatishsa.html How to Play: HSA]</ref> from the HSAO website.'' <br><br> | ||
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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. | 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. | ||
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* Truth_n_sc -- a new friend who helps Lyn by offering supportive suggestions and comments to her blog entries | * Truth_n_sc -- a new friend who helps Lyn by offering supportive suggestions and comments to her blog entries | ||
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+ | *[http://intermediatethinkerrr.blogspot.com/index.html KT]- As the student who has been enrolled the longest at HSA, KT is the student who convinced Ms. Kelly to allow students to socialize. In her interactions with HSA staff, KT once used the colloquial phrase “drop the ball.” The acting director students, the incompetent Dean Warren Reed, assumed KT was an events planner and refused her services. He often asked her if she would send back any deposits from HSA because he would not approve of a ball or dance at the school. KT is not an events planner; however, she is a bright, motivated student whose [http://www.freewebs.com/allaboutafallenangel/index.htm work] demonstrates why Ms. Kelly has grown fond of her. | ||
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+ | *[http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=MysteriousC MysteriousC]- Perhaps the youngest student at HSA, MysteriousC has been enrolled for several terms. Notable, she often had difficulty with the class notebook passwords. In the history of HSA, she is the only student who was given the password through email by Ms. Kelly. Because she was so earnest in her [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7xIHKjBarU studies,] Ms. Kelly was willing to make this exception. | ||
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+ | *[http://www.lonelygirl15.com/lgpedia/index.php?title=GuillotineCalamity Sister,] who is otherwise known as [http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=GuillotineCalamity GuillotineCalamity,] enrolled in HSA for a short time, but had to withdraw when faced with a more pressing personal matter. As a participant in the HSA Term graduation in 2006, Sister shared a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnHqIOdO9MU congratulatory video] with her former classmates.<br> | ||
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* [http://risingstill.blogspot.com/ Lyn] -- a former student who seems to have been expelled from HSA. She broke Ms. Kelly's rule about contacting classmates. She and her mother, Ms. Kelly's former employee, have recently moved away from their old town, and currently reside in an unnamed town with Lyn's grandmother. Lyn stresses that she was not involved in any of the recent problems facing HSA. | * [http://risingstill.blogspot.com/ Lyn] -- a former student who seems to have been expelled from HSA. She broke Ms. Kelly's rule about contacting classmates. She and her mother, Ms. Kelly's former employee, have recently moved away from their old town, and currently reside in an unnamed town with Lyn's grandmother. Lyn stresses that she was not involved in any of the recent problems facing HSA. | ||
− | * [[Bree]] | + | * [[Bree]]- HSA has never been acknowledged by Bree or any official [[lg15]] character. Although she openly refuses to address the rumors of Bree’s alleged participation, Ms. Kelly has responded to the lonelygirl15 story in light of her students’ interest in Bree’s life. Referring to her as “your peer Bree,” Ms. Kelly often uses Bree’s exploits as the basis for lesson on such topics as appropriate behavior, proper decision-making and the negative consequences of an unstructured life. Ms. Kelly’s “Lessons from Bree” videos usually focus on insignificant and trivial elements in the episodes such as Bree’s wardrobe, perceived immorality, Jonas’s automobiles and the use of profanity in a few videos. Ms. Kelly’s tone is often harsh and sarcastic, and she rarely offers reasonable suggestions that could actually help Bree. Ms. Kelly has offered praise to [[Bree]], [[Daniel]] and [[Jonas]] on several occasions when they have made decisions that Ms. Kelly found to be appropriate.<br> |
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<h2 style="margin:0;background-color:indigo;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3b0bf;text-align:left;color:white;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">The End of Orientation 2006</h2> | <h2 style="margin:0;background-color:indigo;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3b0bf;text-align:left;color:white;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">The End of Orientation 2006</h2> | ||
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+ | [[Image:Hsacertificate.jpg|right|thumb|500px|<center><font color="indigo">'''HSA Certificate of completion'''</font></center>]] | ||
Orientation 2006 ended with a rousing speech by [[LordGreystoke422]] entitled [http://one.revver.com/find/keywords/lordgreystoke422#_show_video_88516 HSAO: What is Reality]. <br> This 18 minute and 48 second video ended the term with a presentation that they were not expecting. "It has been suggested that this was the longest graduation speech in history. Though long it is actually exceeded by others such as a noted 24 minute graduation speech once given by Warren Beatty, it is definitely the longest in HSAO history and may be one of the only Graduation speeches involving the removal of clothing." <ref>[[LordGreystoke422]]</ref> | Orientation 2006 ended with a rousing speech by [[LordGreystoke422]] entitled [http://one.revver.com/find/keywords/lordgreystoke422#_show_video_88516 HSAO: What is Reality]. <br> This 18 minute and 48 second video ended the term with a presentation that they were not expecting. "It has been suggested that this was the longest graduation speech in history. Though long it is actually exceeded by others such as a noted 24 minute graduation speech once given by Warren Beatty, it is definitely the longest in HSAO history and may be one of the only Graduation speeches involving the removal of clothing." <ref>[[LordGreystoke422]]</ref> | ||
<br> Graduates who completed the necessary assignments were issued diplomas and were treated to HSAO online yearbooks.<br><br> | <br> Graduates who completed the necessary assignments were issued diplomas and were treated to HSAO online yearbooks.<br><br> | ||
The graduates were as follows:<br> | The graduates were as follows:<br> | ||
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<h2 style="margin:0;background-color:indigo;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3b0bf;text-align:left;color:white;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Disorientation 2006</h2> | <h2 style="margin:0;background-color:indigo;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3b0bf;text-align:left;color:white;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Disorientation 2006</h2> | ||
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The graduates were for this term were as follows:<ref>[http://hsao.net/final.html HSA Final Student Exhibition 2006]</ref> <br><br> | The graduates were for this term were as follows:<ref>[http://hsao.net/final.html HSA Final Student Exhibition 2006]</ref> <br><br> | ||
− | + | *"Faith (our dependable little spark)<br> | |
− | + | *Joanna C. (so faithful and bright)<br> | |
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− | + | *MysteriousC (whose gift of a ribbon left me red in the face)<br> | |
− | + | *Fitzroy (who was no longer a stow-away, but instead an important part of our group)<br> | |
− | + | *Ashley (who worked so hard and shared so much)<br> | |
− | + | *KT (who convinced Ms. Kelly to loosen up a bit)<br> | |
− | + | *Amy#2 (who is really #1 to Ms. Kelly)<br> | |
− | + | *Momo (who came, shared and helped us grow)<br> | |
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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. 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. | [[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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<h2 style="margin:0;background-color:indigo;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3b0bf;text-align:left;color:white;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">References</h2><references/> <br> | <h2 style="margin:0;background-color:indigo;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3b0bf;text-align:left;color:white;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">References</h2><references/> <br> | ||
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*[http://hsao.net HomeSchoolers Aggregate Online Homepage]<br> | *[http://hsao.net HomeSchoolers Aggregate Online Homepage]<br> | ||
*[http://technologicalaspectsofart.blogspot.com/ Professor Boone’s Classroom]<br> | *[http://technologicalaspectsofart.blogspot.com/ Professor Boone’s Classroom]<br> | ||
− | *[http://one.revver.com/account/show/mskelly Ms. Kelly’s Collection on Revver]<br> | + | *[http://one.revver.com/account/show/mskelly Ms. Kelly’s Video Collection on Revver]<br> |
*[http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=mskelly333 Ms. Kelly’s YouTube Channel]<br> | *[http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=mskelly333 Ms. Kelly’s YouTube Channel]<br> | ||
*[http://continue.to/tiko TiKO Foundation Homepage]<br> | *[http://continue.to/tiko TiKO Foundation Homepage]<br> | ||
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[[Category:Homeschoolers Aggregate]] | [[Category:Homeschoolers Aggregate]] | ||
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Revision as of 00:18, 7 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
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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