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1. Description of Our Community
Utaonengkan is an old name of Sankuang Village, Fuhsing Hsiang, Taoyuan County. The village is located on a narrow mountain ridge with elevation of 700 meters from the sea level. Yufenghsi, an Upstream of Tahanhsi flows under the village. The climate is very comfortable. In the valley there is a hot spring source. In this context it became an administration center of the back mountain district in Japanese era, and it is still the community center of Sankuang Village today. Major traffic including Yuehsan Road (Tao. No.113), junction to North Cross Island Highway (Tai No.7); Taoyuan Bus (only once a day go to and back from Taoyuan) is only commercial bus available. Village residents are mostly Tayal and engaging in farming or piece work labors, They are simple and optimistic people. Major farm products are famous May peach, honey water peach, sweet persimmon, mushroom, and bambo. Tayal men are good hunters and girls are good weavers. Since the influence of out side world the old Tayal customs are diminishing. Most of residents are Christian, or Roman Catholics.
2. Summary of Our Project
Utaonengkan was an administration center of Fusin Mountain District (including from Tungkou, Baling,Kuanghua, and Yufeng, Tienpu of Chienshih Hsiang).In Japanese era, at that time, Japanese army and police force had stationed here for a long time left quite a few historical remains in this area. But as time passes only an ammunition depot left oversees old battlefield. However this historical remain might be wiped out based on the County plan of building civil house there. By this research project we try to search back some pieces of Utaonengkan`s history and discover its past.
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:1
C. Connection speed used in the classroom:dedicated connection
D. Number of years our classroom has been connected to the Internet:2-3
E. Additional comments concerning your computer and/or Internet access (Optional):
There is a computer classroom in the school. Inside the classroom a total of 10 Computer terminals are installed for teaching uses. Besides, every class has a computer terminal to organize a district network and connected with special Tl line to the TANet, an ademic network of Ministry of Education of Taiwan.
4. Problems We Had To Overcome
(1)The students scatter around from four areas and it takes more than 30 minutes walk distance from the school. Fortunately, some parents are willing to send them come to school and back home safely. (2)During the interview senior citizens talk in Tayal language but their family pitched in to make interpretation. We felt importance of mother language and will treasure this experience. (3)The ammunition depot was built a long time ago by Japanese. There is no literature or records we can find. Finally through interviews we obtained its real history. (4)In this remote mountain district, not many elementary students can afford for a computer if they have perhaps hard to get on the Internet system. Fortunately, Yuanchih University students, children service club members come to teach the student how to use computer such as document processing, and homepage preparation. The ability of students computer operation had advanced quickly during the activity. (5)We usually worked on Saturday and Sunday for interview, and information survey and there is no lunch available for weekend in school. Fortunately, the Republic of China Hope Association provided budget for us to spend on research equipment and lunches so we don’t have any problems.
5. Our Project Sound Bite
(1)Historical remain are disappearing quickly, some valuable relics may destroyed while we neglect them. We should pay more attention to history of our landmark. (2)There is no free lunch. What you get is function of what you pay.
6. How did your activities and research for this CyberFair Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?
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