Greetings Visitor.
The first people to discover the ImagiLearning Highlands and Lowlands were overwhelmed by the beauty and profound mystical experience of the islands. They were also overwhelmed by the emptiness...the almost complete absence of residents. What was apparently once a thriving and majestic home of wisdom and learning, was now the home of individuals who did not, or could not learn. Learning Zombies.
They sit in classrooms and learning activities all over the islands, but they do not learn. They sit, they stare, they sometimes nod their heads as if they are listening and learning...but they are not learning. There is no breath of learning in them at all.
Where have the learners gone? Did something happen to cause them to leave the islands? Were they removed by force, or even worse, were they sacrificed to satisfy some unjust passion? Or perhaps, even more disturbing, are those ancient learners still here...but somehow gruesomely transformed into these empty shells we now see sitting in this classroom?
And what was once only a mystery linked to these two magical islands, has now become the talk of every village in the land. For there too, learners are disappearing, being replaced by the same Zombies. While instructors and institutions continue to "teach" in the ways they have known for decades and centuries, most of those instructors now face empty eyes and hearts, unable to connect with the minds of the Zombies in their charge.
What is happening to the learners of the land?
There are rumors...
Rumors of a dark force that, not quickly, but very slowly drained the life out of the learners of the Highlands and Lowlands, and has now begun doing the same in the other lands. This force works so slowly and quietly that no one notices their presence until all hope is lost, and once powerful learners have been replaced by the emotionless Zombie learner.
Even more disturbing is the Rumor that the Dark Force's greatest strength is that it works it's fiendish magic through the very instructors and institutions who are responsible for seeing that learning occurs. Without their knowledge, and against their strongest assertions, those very instructors and institutions carry out the plans of the Dark Force...ever so slowly transforming their learners, into Zombies.
This is the challenge of Rumors... the activities and programs taking place in the land of the islands of ImagiLearning. To uncover the powers of the Dark Forces, and to create the weapons that can defeat the Dark Force and breath new life into the Zombies now sitting in classrooms throughout the land. It is a quest to shine light upon those practices used by the Dark Force, and to help those who have been entranced by their long-held powers, to overcome those powers with new practices...breaking the long-held trance cast upon them by the Dark Force.
This is our mission. This is our cause. Join us if you have the heart to do so.
- Virtual Bacon
