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1. Description of Our Community
Kui Hui is located by the side of Dahan Brook, at the front end of Loma Road, looking towards Fusing Farmstead in a distance, the upstream of Shihmen Dam-A Mu Ping can be seen from a far distance, which is a water source preservation area as well as a beautiful scenic resort. There are abundant tourism resources in the tribal areas not known by the outsiders. For the ones that knew about it all gave it thumbs up to express their praises about the place. The sacred mountain of the Kui Hui Brook’s water source-Na Chieh Shan, the fossils by the brook, Gasenou Tribe, the Kui Hui Tribe on both sides of the brook all the way to the Jhentou Mt. on the other side of Kui Hui, are the location of abundant resources of which we are going to explore in more depth.
2. Summary of Our Project
The change for the theme of the project from “the Leaping of Kui Hui’ Passion” to “Weaving the Heart of Kui Hui” to “Joyful Paradise”, with once and again the focus is surrounded upon of Kui Hui Tribe. Hence, it is our plan to devote our best effort in the exploration report for every item and scenic spot that is worth the introduction. Because it is our opinion that Kui Hui is really an extraordinary place, we hope to introduce it to everyone through this project, and to invite everyone to share with us the result and joy of our study.
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:dedicated connection
D. Number of years our classroom has been connected to the Internet:4-6
E. Additional comments concerning your computer and/or Internet access (Optional):
In the making of the project, with school as the primary environment for application, hope to utilize the school resources to the fullest extent.
The major equipments used are:
(1) One Server in FreeBSD system, provides web server and ftp server services, connects to TANET with ADSL (1.5M/384k).
(2) One computer classroom: one computer for the teacher, 21 computers for the students, each one is a multimedia computer with Windows98 operating system.
(3) Administrative computer: one for the School Principal’s office, two for the Dean’s office, two for the Guidance Counselor’s office, and one for the General Administration office.
(4) Two DV camera, one projector, one digital camera, and two scanners.
(5) Authorized Windows98 copyright, authorized Microsoft OFFICE2000 Professional edition copyright, Photoimpact6 and various cai authorized copyright software.
(6) One of the computer classrooms is connected to TANET via ADSL. Most of the time, the convenient and fast network devices are being utilized for connecting to the internet searching for the required information or setting up project files.
(7) Sponsor organizations: one PC, one digital camera, and one digital DV sponsored by ET Mall.com.
4. Problems We Had To Overcome
(1) Technical obstacles:
Very often, the data entered in the computer at the computer classroom could not be saved, which created a lot of inconvenience. After the assistance from Mr. Wu Yueh Hsien, Ms. Chian-chih Leng, Yu’s father, and Ms. Chih Hua, the work was able to resume without a hitch. Digital camera and recording pan also break down at the critical moment due to insufficient power, which has been solved by using a set of electric charger and put a student in charge of it.
(2) Language communication:
After interviewing the elderly for once or twice, the interviewee would often unable to respond to the key point of the question due to poor language communications. Therefore, an interpreter will be arranged to assist in the communication for all interviews thereafter in order for our interviews to proceed smoothly.
(3) Personnel collaboration:
Since our Little Digital Hero lives in various tribal areas respectively, with ones who live farther away from school are confined by the school bus, hence could not stay after class to participate in editing works, creating afterthoughts reports, etc. After conferring with everyone, the students who lives close by the school to stay behind for assistance on the weekdays; and the ones who live farther away and did not have to go to the church worship would come to school on Saturday to help out.
(4) The imminence of time:
There are many activities to participate in this semester for the six graders in particular, as there are class type, school type, extracurricular type, township type, and city and town interchange type, at least one to two activities per week, which takes up a lot of time planned for the project. The teachers have asked everyone to cherish the available time and to put more devotion with the heart and mind, so that the time spent will not be a waste. Although there are some complaints by the students, however, they have all sacrifice their recess time between classes to finish the work progress each one is responsible for.
5. Our Project Sound Bite
* “Convenient others is convenience for thyself”, “Respect thyself, respect others”, is the basic principles for how we associate with others.
* “the bonding developed from interaction, mutual trust, mutual understanding, and helping each other is what we cherished the most”
* “In order to inherit your own culture, must first understand your own culture and accept your own culture”
* “Caring about the nature must first start from being close to nature in order to feel in-depth the true, the good and the beauty of nature.”
* “Love your homeland, care about your land, in order to own a happy heaven.
6. How did your activities and research for this CyberFair Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?
This project is an integrated study primarily based on the theme educational activities “Weaving Heart of Kui Hui” with the standard school courses-information, weaving, dancing, and mother tongue. The data will be included in the database of the standard courses edit by school to provide the teachers a study model in native education, ecological education, and tourism resources.
Participating in this project has allowed the teachers to become a learning type organization. Through continuous discussions and coordination, the teachers can contribute their specialties in various activities and familiarize with the project history and technique to establish professional knowledge and skills for the later studies. At the same time, to enhance the individual professional image and spirit of the teachers during the course of unregretful devotion.
The first-ninth grade curriculum alignment reform emphasizes in the integration between academic subjects and the practical application of the academic subject capabilities. Under the proper planning by the teachers, the students can really experience the integration and application of each subject through the actual course of the study; and to achieve a great sense of accomplishment after the completion of the webpage construction. It is our belief that this successful learning experience will help their later independent learning as well as enhance in their learning interest.
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