School: Long San Primary School
    Hsinchu, N/A, Taiwan

10 students, ages from 11 to 12 worked together to complete this CyberFair project on December 25, 2000. They have participated in CyberFair in the following year(s): 2000

Classes and Teachers: Yu-jen Lee, Shiang-shin Liu

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Our School's Web Site: http://163.19.128.8/

1. Description of Our Community

The local community is defined as the whole Chinese opera.After thousand of years, Chinese Opera has become the combination of music, dance, singing, drawing, literature, and martial arts, which is assumed to be the essence of Chinese arts.

2. Summary of Our Project

The scope of the study is focus on the "face make-up mask" of the chinese opera. The performance of Chinese Opera is only on one simple stage. The entire furniture, movement, dialogue, face make-up mask are completely symbolic. The character role is to express his/her personality that is seen most obviously on role¡¦s face make-up. They represent different kinds of people distinguished on the basis of sex, age, personality as good, evil, loyal, selfish, beauty, ugly. When the kids go through this project, they have gained the spirit of Chinese Opera.

3. Our Computer and Internet Access

A. Percentage of students using the Internet at home:less than 20

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:more than 6

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

It is very pity. We have so many pretty active pictures. But we can't show them. Since "Macromedia Flash 5.0" can't be run in many computers.

4. Problems We Had To Overcome

We thought this contest is to build the habit of search for information via Internet, the ability to apply computer technology in liberal art. We found that tedious report scared most children, and we hope that one-day, Chinese input can be simplified.

We are very interested in computer application. We did the entitle homepage by ourselves. We are so proud of ourselves when it's all done.

Overall, we were able to learn the basic principles of creating content for and designing Webpages. We are sure that this knowledge can serve as a basis for learning more about the Internet in the future.

5. Our Project Sound Bite

When all the kids go through this project, they have gained the spirit of Chinese Opera and performed in their daily lives.

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

In this project, we learned a lot, especially in team working. First of all we want to thank our parents for their sturdy support, Which carry us through.

We also want to thank our teacher; their seriousness made us hard working. We acquired the work attitude of cautious and consciousness.

We learned to choice our partner, to work together as a team, using each member's strength so as to decrease time and work load, raising the standard of product. We learned to encourage and support each other in facing challenge. We learned to expressed and corporate our thoughts.

Finally, we hope that the transmission speed of the network could be greatly improved, because the slow speed really sickened us, and compromised its value compared to traditional educational tools.

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

Telephone, Digital Camera, Scanner, Computer, computer software like FrontPage 2000, PhotoImpact 6.0, flash 5.0, Books, Magazines, Newspapers.

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

Telephone and in person interview: We conducted interviews by telephone and in person way. Through the conversation with old actor and actress, we learned that how they value their job as the meaning of their lives.

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

We would like to share our status and the way we reach that status to other amateur of Chinese opera. We believe it would help in promoting traditional Chinese opera. Let those devoted in traditional Chinese opera has an organization called ¡uMunicipal Youth Chinese opera troupe¡vto learn. Amateur of Chinese opera could have a place called home. Let those have bias against traditional Chinese opera could change their stereotyping.

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

1. The Teachers and students of the Fu-shin Chines Opera Teaching School. 2. old actor and actress of the "The Romance of The Three Kingdoms"

5) Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises (Optional)

We discover that our people don't have face on our culture and tradition. Our teacher said the¡uMay 4th movement¡vin 1919 which attempt to bring of modernization to China overdid it. Students nowadays care about nothing but college entrance examination. ¡uDiploma is everything¡v strangles many talented people, deprive them from nurturing their talent. This is great lost to our society. In the process of devoting our effort, the nourishment and satisfaction are so very cherished, Those are neglected by the Unitarians who care for the ending only.

Chinese is a very special race in the world. She has a unique culture very different from the western culture. Through this introduction of our Chinese opera, we hope that more people could get acquainted with our tradition and would have the intention to learn more about our inheritance.