CyberFair Project ID: 2775

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International Schools CyberFair Project Narrative
Title: Find the historic site --- the historic site of Kaohsiung City makes a tour
Category: 6. Historical Landmarks
URL: http://gsh.taiwanschoolnet.org/gsh2003/2775/index.htm
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School: Sam Ming Elementary School
    Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Taiwan

9 students, ages 9-10 worked together to complete this CyberFair project on February 8, 2003. They have participated in CyberFair in the following year(s): 2003

Classes and Teachers: Tasi Pang Chieh 、Wu Tsai Yan、Hsu I Hua、Sung Shing Li

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

Project Overview

1. Description of Our Community

Kaohsiung is an ancient city of Taiwan,It had been taken possession by force by the Hollander. Therefore there is the building of the floor of the ocean of a lot of wests leaving behind many corners in Kaohsiung. It is afterwards Chinese to drove out the Hollander to also will be Chinese the culture spreads to Taiwan. Kaohsiung there would be a lot of building of the special features for having Chinas at that time. For example school, temple and etc. of the city wall. Taiwan cedes in 1895 A.D. to Japan,Because Kaohsiung harbor has good term, hence the plan build Kaohsiung harbor, build the railroads, design city plan, build Kaohsiung as the military base actively. A till now, leave behind the historic site in Kaohsiung City tells to say the life history of the history and Kaohsiung person taken place here.

2. Summary of Our Project

This special subject research is for letting our the child can have the ownership the feeling to own hometown, making them become a root people, then can work hard to realize the homing town beautiful, also with as the factitiousness glory of Kaohsiung. The hope borrows at the same time from here the activity of the research of the time, practice agrestic and educational policy, reach to be concerned with the purpose of the culture of home town and good care. The wish can produce more results of the research by this small the effort got by grade school, leading the row or column that more kids join us.

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:2-3

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):

Computer in student's home equipment aspect, total nine student, there is a computer in everybody's house, among them have that two people have notebook, the tape recorder that one person have the digital type, all have the broadband the network in the house, get to the Internet is not absolutely problem; member's through school of the on-line chat room can inform the instant message each other, the group establishes the work the discussion time namely Office the Time increases member's of interaction, find the problem, solve problems, and ascend to spread the research the insight the report.

4. Problems We Had To Overcome

we are a group of the team that grade three student of grade school constitutes, so the ability that did not still have to manufacture the web page, but the support that have the computer the teacher and leading, and give to suggest and revise at any time, then can let us doing the collection the data with concentration and visit to check and research the work that take photo on the spot.lead the group of the research carries on the work of the on-site inspection, often need to leave whole process to record, for the purpose of work of the after the event will tell the time to can be used as the basis of the discussion and improvement. This team guided the teacher to prepare a camera namely, taking the classmate at any time to visit to check the process on the spot. the object of the interview allows of no the easy looking for, the place personage only knows the history of parts of historic sites, or only know the position of the historic site, hence the beginning inquires many utility room of history researches, we invite these cultures the worker to carry on for member of team more the explication that go deep into. parts of historic sites has been broken or carry on to renovate and can't take solid view, was helped by school teacher, wish to provide to have another the photograph taken year ago, be used as the certificate of the cultural heritage it with, solve the harassment that our picture collection. the collection of the data also not difficult, because have with the righteousness of the team work parent the help collects, but take into again the work of the sorting after reading the data, franklying speaking is really member of team most difficult place of the feeling, we can may well can only put forward the question in periodical colloquium, and through the leading that open meeting the teacher cooperate with parent together, doing ill-defined place of member of team to explication, let their work of the researching carried on more smoothly.

5. Our Project Sound Bite

This is our first time to attend the special subject of the network to study the contest, perhaps our ability is not too sufficient, the experience is also not enough, but through this activity, we let member of team understand the importance that cooperate, also by studying the process in and in many ways personage of interview, talks, let member of team master the technique of the interview and record; And among them harvest at most of should be the resource that we combine other community, let the visual field of member of team extend the outside of the school district, trueer feel the cultural object of the historic site of the home town beautiful, believe in their smallly caution worked properly, have got the love the house, love the country and love national seed, we expect the time that future bloom and bear fruit.

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

Match with the project of the curriculum of the teaching material of the hometown of the school, our this special subject investigates the culture of neighboring district then, combining the activity that the historic site of Kaohsiung City make a tour, hope to train children the loving the community, love the home town and love the society, then loving one's country house, love vast breadth of mind of the world.

Because this project, our member of team learn the technique that more writings and picture edit, also can the usage and the processing of well-trained information of the network, can oneself the draw-up visits draft and carry on to record sound the interview, would the basis report demand to take the photograph by oneself.

Whole plans while carrying on, the basis of member of team is each from the work of the allotment of the specialty, and exchange the insight, discuss the imperfection, share the experience and provide the support at any time, although is to divide into the work, is a cooperation physically, solidify and cooperate to should be ours principle of the team.

We collect many data of the cultural heritage, also visitting the many people, even consulting several historiography the worker, even browse latest information of related website, hope to do from various resource more the understanding that go deep into. Only never together the angle corresponds and explore, then can make whole project of the research more detailed and complete and complete.

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Project Elements

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

We completed the hour of the work of the research of the special subject of the exposition of the boundary of the net to use the following of tool of the technology of the information:

a.Make use of the book that computer to find when searching of the books room of the school or library of the county, then find the book that oneself want to find to the bookcase of the category of the place, and use the copying machine prints the data.

b.Check the back of the data, make use of the every time the front of the conference tidies up the data and makes use of the Word the typing of the software, openning meeting make use of the data to projector to project big screen, let everybody aim at my data to put forward the opinion and feedback.

c.Learning make use of digital tape recorder and microphone, carry on the on-the-spot interview, and will interview as a result use Word software the sorting becomes file of the electronics.

d.Making use of the telephone or cell phone and interviewee fixs a time, and teachers and the students parent's contacts the affair each other.

e.The learning uses the digital camera and scanner, and deliver picture to the computer goes to, the convenience makes the processing of the image.

f.Use the image the processing the software the Photoimpact 8.0 make the image file to network to optimize the processing, and make use of it makes every kind of button and headline, fairly good use.

g.Use the Dreamwaver MX the web page of the design of the software, Word the file is concentrated, making use of the manager of the file makes the allotment that data clip, and set up spread the Web address, master the usage the FTP the file transfer.

h.Teachers and the students through browser of the internet, settle the hour goes to the top of the utility room of the website of the exposition of the boundary of the net to spread the research papers of the special subject.

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

In fact member of team include to guide the teacher, student and parent, is all a spokesman whom this research plan, ignoring when and where, as long as carry on the interview, each member can our project of concrete statement. Remember at arrange personnel of the utility room of the history as member of team do to explain, the representative director thanks the young lady to lift to ask to dispel doubt for everybody not only, return to be enthusiastic about to provide the resource of several consultations, and plan at three areas of the people carry out the free time that mother study meeting, carrying on the data of the special features of the school to investigate and tidy up for our grade school. This research plans to not only let us learning a lot of, the most interesting but also move most of is we made friends with many good friends who come from the everyone, letting us feeling in investigative process although pain, not lonesome!

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

Through this research of the special subject, we produce a common ground:

Have no the business of the don't know how to do it, have no the mission that can not complete. From the first of the reason do not pay the order, going to the degree of progress of the work of the draw-up and degree of progress complete getting better and better, coming from different class nine different from major in realms of classmate of the flock of three teachers, have no the anyone sends out the complaint, or flee before the battle starts; Although the period end of the school for carrying on the just happen that research plan tests and period of the winter vacation, the nthusiasm's parent not only support this activity, but even sacrifices personal time, helping with all strength. Perhaps our work is not best, but we make a concentrated effort of the spirit is the most good, the conviction that become because by be nthusiastic about to combine so and much, is biggest motive that we all the way walk. This is a the field observe and learns the meeting bestly, we learn more diverse knowledge from different path, the way of thinking of children even limbered up, the visual field was more the comprehensiveness, helped the helping of the greater self to also cultivate in group, most important of is children are while handling thing, expressing more self-confident and more cool-headed. Our result is very flourishing.

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

A work wants it can succeed, is a demand many warmhearted personage participates and suggests, we want that faced to help by this our person expresses the most deep gratitude, having no each help of the enthusiasm, ising to can't achieve this work of. With gratitude: Taiwanese history utility room yu Sir of Kaohsiung and thank the young lady, Mr. Lu, the Sir of yang of the temple general manager of Kaohsiung, National Museum of History explains the member to thank the Sir, Kaohsiung train station Liu station-master etc. … still contain hard teacher, parent and classmates.

5) Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises (Optional)

Through this research of the special subject, we find the home town beautiful to is that so the reality, and is nearby at everyone, can get with the hand, everywhere therefore; We are surprising and move in so have another originally the person who do not acquaint with, unexpectedly the chance meeting of the opportunity gets together mutually, are all the person of hometown of Kaohsiungs for us only because, we all love this land of Kaohsiung. The month is the circle of the home town, the person is a home town good. Hope to be through the CyberFair, let more companions share our effort and happiness.

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