1) What information tools & technologies did you used to complete your CyberFair project?
The information technology adopted by us includes: e-mail, telephone, recording pen, handset cell phone, Yahoo Messenger, digital camera, digital video camera, scanner, computer software, relevant volumes, computer room, broadcasting system, visual room, and practical interview.Below is the brief introduction: The computer of our computer room is Pentium 4 with LCD display. Actually, we adopt the recording penpal with the interview content of 265 minutes and the dongle we uses is functioned with 4.1million pixels with CCD Image sensor and the resolution of 640 x 480 ; 320 x 480 (15fps). At school, the soft wares we adopt for web page editing include: Ulead PhotoImpact 8, Ulead GIF Animator 5, Macromedia Flash MX, Microsoft FrontPage 2002; at home, there are many class mates using the advanced soft wares like Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, together with other applets such as: dBpower AMP Music Converter for the audio file conversion, the recording programs for music editing, MS Painter for image processing…etc. At school, we also utilize the UMAX scanner and the books relevant to computer software technology. Within the mutual communication and connection, we mainly connect with each other through telephone, cell phone, Yahoo Messenger, Email, schedule report and the FTP system. These applications make us availably work during the China Lunar Year holidays.
2) In what ways did you act as "ambassadors" and spokespersons for your CyberFair project both on-line and in person.
In order to complete this theme research project, we had to contact and interview with the members of VGH-YMU Team. Initially, we refer to the telephone number and Email of one member from VGH-YMU Team. Thereafter, we started the first phone contact for the polite regards with the best availability to reach them. The communication context had been well written in project records. Our teacher, Mr. Hsiu-Yi Wu makes this phone call with the member. Fortunately, we finally reached one of the manager of VGH-YMU Team, the chairman of Bioinformatics Department in the National Yang Ming University: Dr. Ueng-Cheng Yang's assistance Miss Branda Huang; meanwhile, we also got her personal E-Mail in hand. Thus, we discussed the theme project and the affairs we are engaging in school with her by Email. It is very lucky that we received the positive reply from her soon. Dr. Ueng-Cheng Yang was then willing to spare his tight schedule available for our interview and also promised us with the apparatus photography from Lab ABI 377 and Lab ABI 3700, together with the relevant website information sources. The interview time was then scheduled in the afternoon of 4th of December (Thursday). We offered him our most sincere thanks in excitement. Our school principal, Mr. Kuo-Chen Tai also supports this project enthusiastically. During the interview day, we were ready for a visit gift and went with our class mates in merriment. We had listened to the kind and detailed brief made by Chief Yang, together with warm reception visiting activities, including the computers control room of Bioinformatics Department, National Yang-Ming University Genome Research Center , the laboratories of Department of Medical Research and Education(MRE) in Veterans General Hospital-Taipei and precision instruments. The scientific lectures were respectively made by Dr. Ueng-Cheng Yang, Dr. Tze-Tze Liu, and Dr. M-y Chung. At last, every visitor, including students and teachers were also presented with the souvenir mugs and ball pens of VGH-YMU Team. They look so precious and collectible and we all like them very much. We deeply admired and tanked for this warm reception. It is typically an invaluable and unforgettable visit with much learned!
3) What has been the impact of your project on your community?
Through the involvement of this theme research project, we leave our school out for the practical experience of interview, record, problem raising, information collection, information compilation, and theme webpage production. We did not merely have the fantastic opportunity to visit National Yang-Ming University and Veteran General Hospital, together with their affiliated research institutes and Labs. We also experienced with the intimate interview with the worldly well-known scientific researchers, together with the kind and detailed scientific brief made by Chief Yang. Our own biology knowledge initially confined tour junior high school or high school biology textbooks, had finally been broadened into further realization in the enormous field of Bioinformatics and DNA with our ceaseless excitement and curiosity. By visiting the computers control room of Bioinformatics Department, National Yang-Ming University Genome Research Center , the laboratories of Department of Medical Research and Education(MRE) in Veterans General Hospital-Taipei and precision instruments, we had listened to the deliberate scientific lectures made by Dr. Tze-Tze Liu and Dr. M-y Chung. Although it was then difficult for us to know well about the lectures completely, yet we were still impressively moved by the engrossment and research spirit VGH-YMU Team. All these experience were well proven to be invaluable yet unavailable for class study. From this interview, we came to realize the biological technology extremely related the Human itself. This field will be definitely accepted the increasing emphasis gradually. We also believe that the biology technology will take the mainstream placement to supersede the information technology someday. We had edited the theme web pages from the information collected to introduce the whole world with our pride of VGH-YMU Team, and hereby, we also admire the achievements of VGH-YMU Team worthy of our reverence and imitation. It is also hopeful that our them research web pages can influence more people to put their concentration onto the scientific research with much more scientific talents reared successfully to benefit the whole world.
4) How did your project involve other members of your community as helpers and volunteers?
At first, I will appreciate our school for the allowance with us to produce the web page and offer our thanks to Dr. Ueng-Cheng Yang for his his interview arrangement and providing us with the web page editing database and available interview spared from his busy schedule with valuable information. And he also cheered us that we should …….. Many thanks for Dr. Tze-Tze Liu and Dr. M-y Chung with their introduce to the sequencing apparatuses. We must thank Miss Branda Huang for her assistance to communicate with Dr. Ueng-Cheng Yang. Also, it is grateful to our schoolmaster Kuo-Chen Tai for his inspire us with this contest. We want thank all of them from VGH-YMU Team to assist us for information collecting and interviewing. It is also obligated to our dear teachers, Chin-Tu Huang, Hsiu-Yi Wu, and Mu-Ching Lu, for their accompaniment with us with the web editing during the winter vacation. We will offer our special thanks to the precision instruments explication made by Dr. Tze-Tze Liu and Dr. M-y Chung. With their kind and detailed explication, we can insight the sophistication and greatness of genetic engineering. We also tried hard to recognize their lectures and the knowledge absorbed is later proven to be very instrumental to our theme web page edition. It our best thanks to the sincere support of Principal Kuo-Chen Tai to make this project proceed smoothly with his generosity to supply us with the visit gifts and the vehicle service for our journey to the National Yang Ming University and Veterans General Hospital-Taipei, without the worry for our traffic problems. Furthermore, we also offer our earnest obligation to numerous people who furnish us with many informational technology devices and apparatuses, granting the appropriate environment for us to produce the theme web pages well. We sincerely hope that our efforts can reach the honorable performance as the utmost gratification toward any one who helps us.
5) Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises (Optional)
It is our best pleasure to participate in the International Schools CyberFair! It really allows us with the innovated and pragmatic learning procedures for ourselves. Through conferences, schedule reports, and interviews with the regional organizations, it is available for us to improve our thinking, organizing and communicating skills, especially the fact that all the team members are divided into numerous groups for operation. To integrate the information collected by so many small groups, it is actually required for highly congruent interaction with the aggressive involvement to prove that we have well experienced the ideas of team work playing. Furthermore, we have also learn much more about the web page authoring with the improved capability to deal with the digital multimedia device operation, together with the inquiry skills for internet searching with the idea of “Information integrated within the educational affairs”perfectly materialized. What’s more; we are also benefited with much unexpected insightful perception and novelty in hand such as writing, information compiling, and data collecting. We have well experienced the practical interview operation and the divergent communication activities, along with the harmonious interaction. We also come to realize the very essence of all-around learning process. Despite the hardship, we do know the truth that the more you suffer and devote, the further and the newer you will reach and the more lessons you will have, undoubtedly full of amazement and learning deep in heart.
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