School: Kaohsiung Municipal Hisn Chuang Senior High School
    Kaohsiung, N/A - Dose Not Apply, Taiwan

9 students, ages 16 to 18 worked together to complete this CyberFair project on October 3, 2004. They have participated in CyberFair in the following year(s): 2003, 2004

Classes and Teachers: Hsueh Chu Lyu, Hui Huanh Chan, Ming Yen Lan, Hsiang Jui Wu, Chia Hao Mai, Ting Ting Hsing, Chen Hui Yu, Ai Feng Hsiung, Chin Teng Wang, Wei Hsia Hung, Yu Ch'eng Lin, Yu,i Wen Wang

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Our School's Web Site: http://www.hchs.kh.edu.tw/main2.html

1. Description of Our Community

Kaohsiung City is a place where industries are booming. However, a quite large amount of pollution is caused as a result. The waste water from the industries and filthy water from households is directly or indirectly flowed into the Love River, seriously polluting the whole Love River. It has become a river where no fish swims and with stink and no one wants to get close to it. To locate the past charm of the Love River, it has become a major target for Kaoh-siung City Government to speed up dredging the Love River. With the continuation of the dredging, water quality of the Love River has been stabilizing. In combination with the unique features and landscape on the two sides of the River, the recreation scenery of clear river of the Lover River is built.

2. Summary of Our Project

Water in a city will meander into different spaces and imaginations in the limited space. In this project, we will take you to visit the most beautiful river in Taiwan—the Love River. The Love River in Kaohsiung City has always been a dream for the Kaohsiung citizens. It has recorded the development of the whole Kaohsiung City and depicts the rising and decline as well as the prosperity. With our personal experience and lively and interesting interviews, we present you a feeling of leisure like you are there with our contents with excellent pictures. In addition to let you understand the intention of the dredging, we will lead you to the beautiful scenery, specialty and the cultural relics around the River to experience the historical changes of the two sides of the River. You will not just have the pulse to head to the River but also be like having already a virtual trip of high quality on the web. Come on! Let’s embark our journey of rich 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: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):

Participating in this competition, in addition with the Pentium 4 PCs with ADSL connec-tion, most of our team members use broadband to go online at home for the mutual communi-cation.

4. Problems We Had To Overcome

During the study on this project, we have had the interaction for over a year with a certain mutual understanding, which makes the communication easily, although we still encountered some problems during the preparation.

5. Our Project Sound Bite

Completion of a work is never done by one single person. During our preparation, we ex-perienced happiness, anger, sadness and joy and learnt a lot. We often heard people say that traveling makes you learn more than studying. This might be it. During the course of the competition, interchange of both parties is often required to proceed. Therefore, “communica-tion” is the most important issue. How to make positive interactions with other people will be what we gain most in this competition.

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

All of us have traveled the whole Love River areas and experienced many things because of this project. “You should know what happen in the hometown as you come from there.” The concept of intimacy to the people, lands and hometowns have always rooted in our hearts. The rich changes of geographical landscape and historical relics aroused our feelings to get to know Kaohsiung, which led us to understand Kaohsiung geography and history. Since when has the old city appearance turned to what we see now with skyscrapers eve-rywhere? However, “Heart of Kaohsiung and Feeling of the Harbor City” still remain in our hearts. Understanding the geographic environment, history of industrial development, a name with historical meaning and each building carving the modern appearance of Kaohsiung arouse our views to care and love our hometowns and further develop the interpersonal rela-tionship to take care this land from all of us.

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

Pentium4 Computer and AMD AthlonXP Computer →Word processing and preparations of web pages Telephone and Cell phone →Communication tools for mutual communication Canon camera →Shooting the process of the activities and landscape of each spot HP scanner →Scanning and converting of some old photos Modem and Cable Net →Hardware to connect the Internet Ulead Photoimpact 8 and Adobe Phtotshop 7 →Handling and post production of picture of web pages CuteFTP 5.0(XP) →Tool for uploading web pages Microsoft Internet Explore 6 →Simulating the users’ Internet environment Microsoft Word XP →Processing the large amount of the information Microsoft Frontpage XP →Frequently used software for web page making. Very easy to get started. Macromedia Dreamweaver XP →A powerful web page layout software Macromedia Flash XP →Software for dynamic web pages Microsoft Media Player 8 →Software for playing multimedia on the Internet libraries, books, newspapers, museums →Sources and places for collection of the text informa-tion

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

To make this project richer and more colorful, we asked parents and teachers to be our drivers for the interviews on the habitants once living around the Love River and local people who frequent the Love River. Thanks to the each interview and communication of e-mails, the contents of the web pages are richer and more perfect.

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

Kaohsiung is a city where industrial and commercial activities boom. Due to the changes of the environment, the commercial center moved eastward with the frequent changes of the surroundings. To get to learn more about the hometown for the high school students growing up in Kaohsiung is an urgent issue. The modernization lies in the hard working of our ancestors and the continuous labor of the followers day and night to be among the world cities. Yet, we have been rich for a long time and it is unavoidable that we tend to forget the past. As a result, we will make a more thorough evaluation on each spot in Kaohsiung in the future when we have free time.

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

We would like to convey our gratitude to the teachers at school and the support from the parents during the preparation of this project. In addition, we would like to thank Principal Jiang of Li-Chih High School, Mr. Liao living in the up river area of the Love River and staff at A Po Ice, etc for making our contents richer.

5) Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises (Optional)

We get more mature after this project. We normally pay attention on the classes and ig-nore our interests and the development of culture. We do not know how to care about the so-ciety, which makes people get more distant from one another. To change this, we have to do from our hearts and understand the world with our hearts. We have to identify with this land so that the society will be with the original human touch. In addition, there were many irre-sistible factors during the competition. There were many unexpected issues, which impact the whole team. The attention and caution is the only way to counteract. Everything we experienced in the competition will be our eternal memory. We are grateful for the Commission to provide us with such a good opportunity to combine the tech-nology and human development and we can learn something we can not at school. Our in-spirations, at the same time, were aroused and everyone worked hard together to complete this project.