School: KSHS (Kaohsiung Senior High School)
    Kaohsiung, N/A, Taiwan

13 students, ages from 14 to 17 worked together to complete this CyberFair project on March 15, 2001. They have participated in CyberFair in the following year(s): 2001

Classes and Teachers: Je-Chen Lee

E-Mail contact:

Our School's Web Site: http://www.kshs.kh.edu.tw/

1. Description of Our Community

The community we chose is Mei-nung, a small, simple, and quite traditional Hakka town in Kaohsiung county, southern Taiwan. It is famous for its oil-paper umbrella throughout Taiwan; however, after Mr. Chu settled down here and started on his ceramic creation, it has brought enormous impact on Taiwan, especially in Mei-nung. He also held some exhibitions, making the term of Mei-nung Yao(Kiln) well-known around the world. Above all, Mei-nung boasts of its beauty in the slang,

2. Summary of Our Project

Mei-nung is a place humming with abundant of culture activities. It features not only so called

3. Our Computer and Internet Access

A. Percentage of students using the Internet at home:more than 50%

B. Number of workstations with Internet access in the classroom:more than 6

C. Connection speed used in the classroom:dedicated connection

D. Number of years our classroom has been connected to the Internet:4-6

E. Additional comments concerning your computer and/or Internet access (Optional):

We use the network system in our school which is T1 (ISDN)

4. Problems We Had To Overcome

Since the ceramic works attract a lot of tourists coming here to take a look at it, we fortunately, happened to come across Mr. Doug from Australia. He was curious about our view of points to the masterpieces, and felt surprised. However, the communication didn't seem to go on that smoothly, and we only depended on friends who speak a little English. We indeed made a lot of effort to figure it out. Besides, Mr. Chu often goes abroad to come up with some ideas and inspiration; therefore, the meeting date will be carefully arranged.And Sometimes the school works and the monthly exams are a huge obstacle to finish the project, but we conquered it by making good use of our leisure time. We definitely will make it.

5. Our Project Sound Bite

It is a great chance to contact with the beauty od art, and to draw away some miscellaneous annoyance in our mind. Living in the modern world with materialism, I seldom have some time spared out of our busy life for appreciating those masterpieces of fine art. I am so much excited and pleased.

6. How did your activities and research for this CyberFair Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?

This website is really a great help to the education of local geography and history in school. As a citizen in Kaohsiung, we are supposed to understand our cultural landscape and the history. During the interview with Mr.Chu who dominates the public art, we surely learned a lot about the art in Taiwan. Moreover, it is also a nice opportunity to feel the atmosphere of local culture, and the love of humanity far away from the polluted narrow city in Mei-nung. What's more, being a local guide, our teacher not only helped us with our data, but also inspired us to think of the topic and the object. Although it has nothing to do with Physics and Chemistry, we have learned how to deal with the interaction with others and some skills about ceramics. As an intellectual, in order to avoid the violence which results from the desire of fame and wealth the most important mission is to contribute some efforts to the society, to preserve the traditional culture of art and to pass it down to the next generation,and to cultivate a society under the love of art. And we deeply believe that the influence of our works will be on a positive way to the society , and we will desperately carry it on and out.

1) What information tools & technologies did you used to complete your CyberFair project?

Hardware-telephone, television, radio, video recorder, digital camera, cam, scanner, recorder.

Software-FLASH4 Microsoft Word Windows98 FrontPage2000 PhotoImpact5 CuteFTP2 Netscape4 Internet Explorer Cooledit2000 Outlook5

VG conference, library, books, magazine, papers museum, oral interview, network, professionals.

2) In what ways did you act as "ambassadors" and spokespersons for your CyberFair project both on-line and in person.

During the time of collecting information on Mr.Chu's works, our English teacher, Mr. Je-chen Lee, might be consider the one who makde painstaking efforts to initiate this project. Thanks to the teacher's home located in Mei-nung, the source of the information is mostly brought by him. It is tiresome job because it takes nearly two hours to travel to and fro. Furthermore, the other dedicator is Matt, who contacts everyone like a brain in the center. For instance, he has to call Mr. Chu in his leisure time for fear that he may interrupt his thoughts and inspiration. Otherwise, there will be a blame tumbling along, and then nothing doing.

3) What has been the impact of your project on your community?

The monographic study plan brought us a lot of impact and influence. At first our school expected us a lot and was willing to provide funds to reduce our expenditure. A lot of instruments and funds were supplied by our school, and there was excellent accuracy with the instruments. So in many aspects, we all got nice results. The support of our teachers was also the main reason.

However, making the homepage also brought heavy effect to our study. In this kind of school which is full of competition, the study can't be ignored, but we expended much physical strength in order to make this homepage. So all of us were exhausted with our study and the making of the homepage. Although every one still has nice study grades, our achievements in lessons are more or less influenced by this plan. Fortunately, this success will comfort us, because it expresses that our toil wasn't expended uselessly. It's very important to win the price because no one wants to do without any remuneration.

4) How did your project involve other members of your community as helpers and volunteers?

At first when we make the homepage, we didn't know much about the ceramics. At the first time when we visited Mr. Chu Pan-Hsiung, we were obliged to the explanation of the Australia artist, Mr. Doug, so we could know the ceramics in the art. Because of it, we would know nothing about it. Of course, we also met troubles in the process, so we wrote E-mail to Mr. Chu and his second son to discuss the problems about ceramics. Mr. Chu was not often at home because of going aboard. Thanks to his wife providing the answers and explanations in time, we could obtain the perfect solutions and understand more easily. In our country, there are few people engaged in creating the ceramic art. Luckily We found a company about it on the Internet, which is engaged in this kind of enterprise. We also wrote e-mail to ask them some questions. Luckily, we acquired the satisfying answers. The above are those who helped us a lot. There are still others who have helped us, but we can't mention them one by one. Anyway we all thank them very much.

5) Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises (Optional)

The kaolin is really an interesting thing and full of varieties. Before visiting the outstanding person in the Wall Tile Public Art, we seemed never to find that the kaolin was so marvelous. If the kaolin was headed up with different kinds of temperature, at last, the kaolin showed different qualities of materials and luster. So it gave people a unique special flavor from the other works of art. The Wall Tile Public Art brought us a forceful and blazing feeling. When we touched it, we would feel an enthusiasm from our hands to our minds. It was a respectable enthusiasm brimming from the artist s craving to his works of art. When we admired them, we could feel it. We all believed that we never ran into so astonishing works of art before we visited Mr. Chu. Its beauty was hard to be described by the words.