Admission to The IdeaFarm (tm) College of Imagination Science

If you have already purchased Admission (which is included with Student Registration) and received your username and password in an email, click here:

To read all student evaluations of ICIS, click here: [Student Evaluations of ICIS IdeaFarm (tm) College of Imagination Science]

The ICIS IdeaFarm (tm) College of Imagination Science is being organized and constructed. At this time, registering as a student enables you to receive individualized tutoring in our "classroom" (a chat room). Wo'O IdeaFarm, the organizer of ICIS and author of the IDEAFARM.COM website, is the only faculty member. He will use the "classroom" chat room to guide you by answering clarifying questions and engaging with you in guided discussions, as you work to master the teachings presented on the IDEAFARM.COM website. As more students register, this individualized tutoring will become supplemented by guided group discussion. As a student, you will also have access to other "students only" chat rooms, such as "Jimmy's Bar" (general conversation) and the Student Evaluations chat room that is published in the link above.

All purchases made on this page are transactions with Wo'O IdeaFarm Operations, a for-profit California sole proprietorship. Professor IdeaFarm is currently also organizing a California non-profit religious corporation, IdeaFarm Operations, Incorporated, which is a separate entity. The non-profit religious corporation will eventually have its own website, but at present both organizations share IDEAFARM.COM. Professor IdeaFarm intends to entrust the launch of the religious corporation to his registered students as a class assignment. This will begin with presenting the Articles of Incorporation in a new teaching for discussion. Participation in planning and launch will probably be limited to students who have graduated (earned the Certificate of Mastery).

The ICIS campus is not a place for general chat. You will be able to use the campus chat rooms for official college business, but you will not be able to create rooms or to join off-campus (federated) rooms. In all of the visitors' parlors, and most of the other chat rooms on campus, chat is limited to discussions of the teachings presented on the IDEAFARM.COM website.

The chat technology used for ICIS is being actively developed. What you will see is a simple prototype of what is planned. The current development focus is to give the prototype all of the essential features that are needed and then to debug it so that it is always available and works correctly. Chat on the ICIS campus uses a private, nonfederated "[matrix]" server that is configured for text only (no multimedia, no avatars).

To enter our chat rooms (the ICIS campus), you must either register as a student or purchase an admission pass (but not both). These purchases are not refundable, and access may be suspended or revoked for cause (bad behavior). Student registration and also the admission pass are subscriptions. Upon checkout, you will gain immediate access to the ICIS campus.

Your level of access will depend upon whether you are a visitor or a student. As a visitor, you will be able to chat with other visitors and with students who enter the "visitors' parlors" rooms. As a student, you will have access to those rooms as well as the "classroom" room and the "students only" rooms.

If you register as a student, the entire payment that you make today, less the transaction fee, will be paid out as a sales commission. If you enter a valid "Hawker's ID", the payment will be made immediately to that person's [Hyperwallet] account. Otherwise, the payment will go to a commission fund that is distributed every 64 days to our hawkers who have made registered sales during that period. By taking a moment to enter a hawker ID, you will be giving that person both an immediate commission payment and additional shares in the commission fund. Be sure to carefully enter the "Hawker's ID" code correctly; it is case sensitive. ('A' and 'a' differ; the capitalization must match.)

To learn more about who we are, how the money is handled, and who gets it, click "about" at top left. You can join our army of "hawkers", who earn sales commissions by persuading people to make a purchase here. You can be a hawker even if you don't have a bank account or a government-issued identification card. Although all are welcome, our hawker program was designed particularly for homeless people, children, and others who don't have customary financial accounts. For details, click "about".

When you log in for the wo'th time, be sure to change your password. The best password is a random string of upper and lower case letters and digits, with symbols @ # $ % sprinkled in. If you do not use a password manager and cannot easily copy and paste, then use a password that you can remember but no one else can guess. Securing your account is important because misbehavior will result in account closure and eviction from the college, even if it was somewo who stole your password and impersonated you. To change your password:

1. Click the circular avatar that represents you, in the top left corner.
2. Click "All settings" in the drop-down menu.
3. Move your mouse to the center of the window and scroll down until you see the "Change Password" button.
4. Make up a new password and save it somewhere.
5. Copy it from that somewhere and paste it back into that somewhere.
6. Now paste it into the boxes on the "Set a new account password..." form.
7. Click the "Change Password" button and then click the "X" button at top right to close the "Settings: Account" window.
8. Be sure to print that "somewhere" record or otherwise secure it from loss as well as disclosure.

Questions? Problems? Click "about" at top left and shoot us an email.