The Potter's School
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The Potter's School, often abbreviated TPS, is an online Christian academy, featuring courses for students through twelfth grade within the United States as well as around the world. It teaches classes in a comprehensive group of subjects. Classes meet online during designated times for ninety minutes and involve presentation, text chatting, screen sharing, and audio. The Potter's School also features a student-run e-zine, The Cracked Pot.
"We set the bar high for you, then we help you individually to reach the bar. We make biblical excellence in labor achievable through a grace-centered process, without lowering the bar to get there."
page, it offers a number of ways outside of classes by which students may become better acquainted with classmates, alumni, and other students.
is an Internet forum
that utilizes profiles, threads, and blogs
to create a site to let users interact with each other in a variety of different ways. The students collectively have come to call this site "The Forums." TPS has several categories of forum topics: General Information, Student Information, Help Center, Open Discussions, Topic Discussions, Computers an Internet, Forum Games, and Closed Discussions. Additionally, forum profiles allow students to learn more about any student who wishes to update his or her profile.
also offers the chance for students to update blogs. Several varieties exist, including those based on photography, Christian worldviews, and even tabletop RPGs.
, a network of profiles, lets students create a profile that reflects them selves by adding pictures, text boxes, chat walls, YouTube
videos, etc.
"We set the bar high for you, then we help you individually to reach the bar. We make biblical excellence in labor achievable through a grace-centered process, without lowering the bar to get there."
Social Networking Within TPS
While TPS does have a FacebookFacebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
page, it offers a number of ways outside of classes by which students may become better acquainted with classmates, alumni, and other students.
vBulletin
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vBulletin is a proprietary Internet forum software produced by Jelsoft Enterprises and vBulletin Solutions, both subsidiaries of Internet Brands. It is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database server.-History:...
is an Internet forum
Internet forum
An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. They differ from chat rooms in that messages are at least temporarily archived...
that utilizes profiles, threads, and blogs
Blog
A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
to create a site to let users interact with each other in a variety of different ways. The students collectively have come to call this site "The Forums." TPS has several categories of forum topics: General Information, Student Information, Help Center, Open Discussions, Topic Discussions, Computers an Internet, Forum Games, and Closed Discussions. Additionally, forum profiles allow students to learn more about any student who wishes to update his or her profile.
Blogs
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vBulletin is a proprietary Internet forum software produced by Jelsoft Enterprises and vBulletin Solutions, both subsidiaries of Internet Brands. It is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database server.-History:...
also offers the chance for students to update blogs. Several varieties exist, including those based on photography, Christian worldviews, and even tabletop RPGs.
Mahara
MaharaMahara
Mahara is an open source ePortfolio and social networking web application created by the government of New Zealand. It provides users with tools to create and maintain a digital portfolio of their learning, and social networking features to allow users to interact with each other...
, a network of profiles, lets students create a profile that reflects them selves by adding pictures, text boxes, chat walls, YouTube
YouTube
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videos, etc.