1) What information tools & technologies did you used to complete your CyberFair project?
1.Telephone 2.Video camera and digital camera 3.Scanner 4.Computer software 5.Library 6.Books and newspapers 7.questionnaire and interview 8.Mixer 9.Cell phones 10.Network 11.Tape recorders
1.Books, website, and interview can provide first hand information. Camera and tape recorder can keep the record of physical outlook and the real voice. 2.Computer at home or at school, radio in the car, camera from teacher or student, and newspapers at school. 3.Ms Lee, Jui-shei, Teacher Tu, Ms Wu, Chung-lang, Annie’s Ma, Yo-ling’s Ma, Bo-Juei’s Pa, Yo-whei’s Pa, and all the people we have a direct contact and interview. - 2)Computer, copier and scanner. 4.Computer and library. 5.Computer is the most useful tool. 6.Computer. Because we can use it to load in data and can use it to check data correctness. 7.Computer technology has wide scope of applications. That is more powerful than traditional recording methods.
2) In what ways did you act as "ambassadors" and spokespersons for your CyberFair project both on-line and in person.
We played a role as a media through the contact between groups and individuals through the Internet.
In the report we started with the search of the information. The resources and references we get are mainly personal interviews and field studies with small percentage of the data we search on-line. Our main goal is of course the topic of our report-Chi Shan. In the trip we went for interviews we met a friendly fruit vendor. Originally we planned to ask a favor from the man to help introduce things about banana to us. Fortunately he even took us to visit his banana farm, which was totally a big surprise to us. On his farm, we got to see more than 17 kinds of bananas and we got a great education from the trip. Then we visited the ice shop called Chi-San Bin Shien. We ordered snowman shaped b anana ice and another one made based on the theme of Hawaii. What got the most attention of us was that we got to witness the whole process of the making of ice including strawberries, milk and of course bananas. Meanwhile we got the chance to interview the lady who has been working in the shop for over ten years and who has a great experience in ice making. She told us passionately and in details but part of what she said seems to have certain things that were beyond our comprehension.
3) What has been the impact of your project on your community?
The impact and influences we have from the report 1.What we have reported would make more and more people interested in banana fanning and understanding. 2.What makes us different from other teams in our community:Most Kaohsiung residents know only the shape or color of bananas. They lack a deeper understanding of bananas. On the contrary, Chi Shan residents know a lot more about bananas because they are their specialty. 3.Our website can have the locals get a great chance to know more about Chi Shan’s culture, historical background, promotion activities. It helps them know the specialty of its history and bananas. 4.People all over the world can know from our website about Taiwan bananas because countries like America and Japan have few kinds of bananas with smaller size. They don’t taste as good as Taiwan bananas, either. Thus we call Taiwan a Banana Kingdom. 5.We build up a good friendship with the locals through the interviews. 6.Our parents and classmates find the website good after going through it.
4) How did your project involve other members of your community as helpers and volunteers?
(1) Parents and Schoolmates: Our parents and hoolmates offered us a great deal of available resource, contact information and encouragement. (2) Interviewees: In our field trips, we knew a lot of friends. For many times, the interviewees assist us actively and also received us warmly.
5) Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises (Optional)
(1)This is our first time we joined the project-based learning. It is not the result that we care about. What we learned most is from the process of doing the project together with teammates, teachers, and community residents. There are countless stroies and revelations happened to us in this process. (2) Although we had to learn lots of things that we had never touched before, like how to 'dig out' troies on the spot, take a photograph, and make use of our poor mother tongue (South-min Dialect) to talk with the grownups, all of these learning experiences encourage us to 'learn more by doing' in the future.
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