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1. Description of Our Community
The South-Gate park is located at the south gate of the old city in the city of YiLan nowadays.
In the Japanese colonial government, the park was the location of the city hall. After the colonial government, it was still the city hall of the YiLan county. However, after the city hall and the city jail had been removed, the park had been transformed from a well controlled district to an old Japanese style wasteland. At the time of reconstructing this place to a commercial area, the chief of executive yuan pondered for a while, concerning the replant of an old camphor tree insides the park and then decided not to build the commercial buildings. Rather, he kept these historical buildings. Today the South-Gate park has been left a lot of historical buildings and sign scenery, such as the memorial hall, old jail office, the cabin, the wall, the secret mansion and the residence of the Agriculture school, which is still under reconstruction, etc. Because the park is located at the center of the city where the land was so limited to a large population, it is so precious to be preserved, under the era of focusing on developing rather than preserving.
2. Summary of Our Project
YiLan, a northeast county of Taiwan, has been a new haven for pioneers since Ching Dynasty. Although many disadvantages caused tremendous living pressure on new immigrants, such as surrounded by high mountains, original tribes, and bad weathers, the pressure did not discourage their love from this land. It even derives more their passion and belongingness toward the land.
We choose South-Gate park as our research topic, not only because its historical value, the political center of YiLan county, but also because its controversial preserving process which represents YiLan people vision and courage towards historical preservation.
During our research, we gladly found that the South-Gate park has reborn because of its historical value, the well-planned protection and positive attitude of government, the enthusiasm of volunteers and the deeply love of local people. From the preservation of South-Gate park, we see the glance of hope to preserve historical sites, because of the new concept and positive attitude from the government and the autonomous effort of the townsman. As local people, we would want to be a tutelary of the part of history keeping. Therefore, we devoted ourselves into this project. Our research methods include data collection, interviewing officials, volunteers and neighborhood, as well as doing questionnaire. We tried to collect all the unknowing stories of South-Gate park.
This study is just a beginning. We hope it can arouse children admire to their hometown, and to inspire the though into the children mind to discover the interesting part of their surroundings.
3. Our Computer and Internet Access
A. Percentage of students using the Internet at home:21-50%
B. Number of workstations with Internet access in the classroom:more than 6
C. Connection speed used in the classroom:not sure
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):
Our school provide the on-line environment with 1.5M bandwidth, TI network of ADSL of CHTHC, as a resource mechanism for students to get on-line. The 80 sets of student’s computer in the computer classroom are available to go on line anytime and the other equipment includes two-set scanners and one set printer for printing of the network. The other classroom in each grade, every classroom has a computer able to go on line, and each grade sets a black-white and color printer for students’ application. In terms of access, the computer classroom in school is provided with a set of Linux host for the student to store individual data and the space of webpage. Five students in this team are all set the computers, but only one of them is unable to go on live. Therefore, the student can process the study with the computer at home besides searching data at school. We are looking forward to providing students a sufficient support, and let them enjoy freely in the pleasure of network searching.
4. Problems We Had To Overcome
1.The “Time” is unable to operate in coordination:In the studying process, teachers, students, and the object to be interviewed, all of them shall consider the issued of time, such as, we are painstakingly making an appointment with a person willing to accept the interview; in virtue of students must return home at the stipulated time, so teachers have to proceed the details of interview with the specific person. *Our Solutions:Tape-recording it; arrange another time to recount and discuss.
2.Insufficient experience of the guiding teacher:This is the first time to join in this activity, so we are racking our brain to accomplish the subject from the selection to studying program, or even how to increase the number of student’s participation. Nevertheless, “Observation implicates theory, so we are fundamentally incapable of locating our blind spot to improve the studying width and depth. *Our Solutions:Conduct the interview with local persons, request them to recommend the object to be interviewed, and use the data obtained from the interview reviewing and reciprocating unceasingly to improve our researching plan.
3.Incompetence of the students who join in monographic research:The researching capability shall be trained, such as the technique of interview, draft of questionnaire, and data of collection and development, etc. In virtue of our children having not such a training in usual time, they are all drift under the pressure of brief time. *Our Solutions:Use chances to encourage students to join in the data collection, and interact with others.
4.No Activity’s Expense:We regretted that we had no budget to fund the student’s interviewing tea-party, transportation, and premium, etc. *Our Solutions:Each instructor funds NT$ 1000 as a foundation for activities.
5.Producing webpage needs more time:We are only relying on our enthusiasm for the native land, leading students to throw in this research, thus, the more time is needed in the proficiency of producing webpage. *Our Solutions:Need time to recall the webpage producing that we previously learnt.
6.Impossible to finish:The more we interview the relevant persons, the more data and persons we need. *Our Solutions:Although our work’s burdens are increasing heavier, the instructor and the student are proud of their own “Achievements”.
5. Our Project Sound Bite
The principal studying direction of this research has following points:
1.Collection of historical reference of The South-Gate park.
2.Collection of the architectural complex data in The South-Gate park.
3.Visit the relevant personnel by a semi-structural interview, including to mail a letter for premier Yu, interview Miss Show-Lan Chiu, Mr. Yun-Shao Yeh, the president Jin-Show Yang of the Ser Da Botanical Institute, teacher Yeo-Lin Zhu of the Kwanfu Elementary School, Mr. How-Wei Lan and Bao-Sen Chiang of the Yong-San Interpretation Association.
4.Applications of Questionnaire: Design of this questionnaire is based on the questionnaire for teachers in campus (70 copies), and for the tourist in Nanmen Garden (100 copies).
5.Introduction of the animals and plants in The South-Gate park.
6. How did your activities and research for this CyberFair Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?
We emphasize consistently in nine years to cultivate a sound national who has the humanism, integral capability, democratic cultivation, native and international consciousness, and capability of learning in life time. We take the South-Gate park as the studying object, hoping to cultivate the student to learn a feasible capability through collection and producing of the monographic data, such as the program drafting, data collecting, interviews, questionnaires, and the producing technique of web-page, etc. From the instructing jobsite, we discovered that students are having the exploring sincerity, but in short of an appropriate guidance to introduce students proceed with a monographic exploration. Thus, in the process of study, we are looking forward to the student may experience the significance of cultural preservation and the know-how to do the research by means of this study in addition to process the demonstration of our research achievement. We unceasingly take advantage of chances to urge students to search and integrate the data voluntarily and perceive the connection between the monument preservation and the cultural life, further to concern with the variation of living environment actively.
In terms of the extension of researching effect, we provide an alternative chance to compile the curriculum other than the standard curriculum provide by school, through the propaganda among classes and the data compilation. In addition, our studying model is also provided as a reference for the school to proceed with a similar, monographic instruction.
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