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1. Description of Our Community
Taipei, a populated area; Maokong, a place full of cultural with a silent atmosphere. In Taipei, we always make contact with the newest science, technology and knowledge, however, opportunities of interacting with the ancient culture are rare, fortunately in Maokong of the Wenshan area, filled with the arts of drinking tea, we understand what is not found in books: The Chinese tradition diet.
2. Summary of Our Project
The tea history, nearly as old as Egyptian pyramid. In the development of human history, the tea continuously follows the Chinese people to move towards the modern civilization from the primitive society. Tea has already become an essential material to our life. With tea literary arts: poetry, dance, drama, and myth are all created along with the tea drinking culture, causing the tea drinking culture to turn into an important traditional Chinese culture.
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: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):
We have three computer labs at school; we use the one we usually have classes in. All computers are equipped with AMD K6-2-350 processors running at 450Mhz. We use a private ADSL line for out network needs, it's speed isn't very stable, at high peek times the speed goes up to 200k per second, but during heavy traffic periods it can be as slow as 50k per second (sometimes slower). Luckily, not many people use the school's network during the winter break, so we were able to get the most out of the internet connection, with almost no downtimes, we believe that our project will be unique to others. Most of the students on the team use have DSL at home, only a few still use dial-up.
4. Problems We Had To Overcome
Because we have rushed to build up our team, the members were strangers to each other at first. It was hard to set the right meeting times, induce our narrative introduction(From deciding the subject, collecting and interviewing data, to make the website at last.) is very hard to go on. ◎Exams Exams, this is the reason that our data collecting has quantum leap until the middle of December. And the days before tests, considering every one’s exams, we couldn't go out interviewing and borrowing books.(It’s because our parents will not be happy about it.)So we can only use the lunch hour to amass members and let us have the best acquaintance about our narrative introductions target and purpose by documents or parol. But we are lucky that our alliance let the exam problem effectually solve. ◎Data Collecting The data about tea, not only books but also the information from the internet is very abundant. And it becomes our big problem because there are too many repeating, or superfluous data. At last, we divide the work in collecting data, arranging information, and adorning essays, so we could solve this problem. ◎Interviewing Our interviewing work began in the late December. The experts’ interviewing at the beginning, though our members weren’t all present, it still went well. The teahouses ’ interviewing at last was the real problem. That day, our members were all present. But in Mao-Kong, sometimes the distance between two teahouses is very far, and there were some accidents on the way, induce the time was not enough. So we can only interview the last teahouse by telephone.
5. Our Project Sound Bite
To realize tea can affect our life a lot, and mixes the art and the culture in life together, so after deeply knowing the tea culture, we heightened not only our knowledge but also the cultivation on our mind.
6. How did your activities and research for this CyberFair Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?
Many people think of Japan when they think of tea ceremony. But after all, the culture of tea in Japan was come from China. This time, our narrative introduction was like finding the subjacency, the culture and the genius loci of tea in China. We put all the data we have on the internet after arranging. We hope we can let others see the spirit of Chinese tea ceremony.
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