School: school
    Taipei, none, Taiwan

5 students, ages 15 worked together to complete this CyberFair project on March 19, 2004. They have participated in CyberFair in the following year(s): 2004

Classes and Teachers: Yang shu ching,Ju Yi Hwa ,TsaiYu Ying,Lai Kun Rui,Tsai wen tsai

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Our School's Web Site: http://

1. Description of Our Community

our school are locate at Tai An community in Taipei,where is one of most bustling area in Taipei. Taipei is a special city in Taiwan, although the population here are come from everywhere in Taipei, but can get along well in Taipei. we think that's the Taipei's magic. People went to here to presume their dream, because every dream will possible come true in Taipei.Besides different culture are developing together here in Taipei,no matter it's new or traditional.

So we think our community's feature is an openmind city, that's also why we can study culture creative project here.

2. Summary of Our Project

Our project is about the creative traditional art, we have a lot of traditional art are missing, disappear, but it's good, but there are so many new things attract people,and then they forget the traditional art.

A-chung is a person who give new idea to tradtional art in Taipei, but give the new idea to tradtional art is good or not, and

What is the really creative,is the subject we concern and need to explore

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:2-3

4. Problems We Had To Overcome

*Time: we are Grade 9 junior high school students. Our everyday lives are filled with tests and studying, tests and studying. We used the afternoon break, and afterwards the teacher helped to make use of social groups and computer classes, which gave us a little more time. As for interviews, we of course used time after class, on the weekend kend during holidays, we believe that hardship of this sort definitely has its value!

*Interview times: During the production process, we encountered many difficulties, because members of the A Chung group were so busy, and held meetings constantly.. Occasionally, it was very difficult to allocate times for us. From this we began to understand that this was probably a part of the hardship and difficulty that they had endured in achieving success. We also studied, and prepared well so that we could achieve the best results with the time we used. If we hadn’t prepared properly, it would have been very easy to waste time. *Information storage: All of the production was performed in the school computer room, but sometimes there would be a class on, so we would have to employ other means. From the beginning, the information we produced was sometimes saved in the computer room , sometimes sent by e-mail accounts, and other times saved on floppy disks. This was neither unified nor convenient. Thankfully, our teacher later on came up with the idea for us to apply for a web group, to act as a contact and information storage location, and through the internet, whether at home or at school, we would be able to access this area to save or retrieve information. We felt that this was far more convenient, and meant that we were no longer limited by location. When a number of people were working together, making use of this type of arrangement was extremely helpful.

5. Our Project Sound Bite

1. A better sense of traditional art.

2. Learnt and now understand more about innovation.

3. Learnt how people cooperate

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

something deserve metion is Cooperation Learning: This special-theme project enabled us to study many techniques for group cooperation. First of all, we arranged the pace of progress together, produced progress forms, and in addition to this, we were assessed based on our work performance, by both our teachers and each other. On our web forum there was a voting area, and we used this voting area to display our assessment marks. In addition this, a shared web forum was an excellent means for helping us to coordinate people who had different schedules and lived in different areas. Conversations that could not be carried out in person could be conducted over the internet. With regard to techniques for dealing with each other, because there were periods of time at our school when students were not permitted to access the internet, this influenced our rate of progress, and made everyone very nervous. This also created conflict between group members. But we took this and transformed it into a valuable experience, enabling everyonee to consider how we should communicate when time came for cooperation with others. When speaking ot doing things, we had to give greater consideration to the impressions of others, and only then would we be able to achieve the true goal of communication, and not disrupt amicable relations

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

1.computers –we use the computer in the computer class room 2.telephones-contact with each other and the work staff of the museum and A Chung. 3.video and digital still camera as –To record the process we meet with A Chung 4.digitizers and scanners-We can scan the picture used on website. 5.Digital recorders Record the process of the meeting, let us write it down easily 6.computer software-Photoimpact,Photoshop, Dreamweaver,Namo Web 7.editor,Powerdirector,Nero……… 8.libraries-borrow the book about our project 9.oral interviews-twice, to clear our topic. 10.Were any tools donated by businesses or schools?school provided the tool.

What were your most valuable and helpful tools? Why?

1. Digital camera-it not only can get picture immediately but also can use it as a hardisk.

2. Yahoo Family(Web hard disk)-upload and download the file anytime and anywhere, and you can use the function communicate while you at home.for example leave the message to someone who can’t join the team meeting or put

The weekly schedule on it, and vote to decide something about our group.

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

First of all we found A Chung glove puppet theaters website, and contacted the number provided. After obtaining contact with A Chungs manager, Ms. Pu, she told us that on Sunday, at the Children’s Education and Amusement Center on Chung Hsiao East Road, Section 5, there would be a live performance, and welcomed us to attend and conduct an interview. This was an activity arranged by a church society. The event that day was extremely lively, and we experienced first hand the enchantment of A Chung puppet theater. Because this was the first time that we’d been to see a performance, we originally wanted to take classmates with a DV and a camera. But because of circumstances, we could only take a few photos, and when we performed the interview that today, there was another group of university students, and also television people, who had come to interview A Chung (you can see how popular is he). So, we hoped that we would have another occasion to conduct a fuller interview,and also record the event. Finally, a time was set for a second interview. After their appointment at the television station was finished, because we had just arrived at the television station ourselves, we performed our second interview in the television station cafeteria. The goals for our second interview were much clearer, because previously, our teacher had enabled us to perform an analysis of the information, so we would better understand the direction we wanted to pursue with our interview. We are extremely grateful to the staff from the A Chung Glove Puppet Theater, for taking the time out to be interviewed and helping us shoot the video, even though they were extremely busy. In addition to this, we would also like to thank Mr Zhi Gong, for the opportunity to watch the outside performance, and for serving as a source of information. We only had these sources of information. Thank you all

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

1.Will your project make a difference?

We not only introduce Glove Puppet Theater, we try to identify the innovation within tradition is good or not good ,and verify the need of innovation to let traditional art. 2.Have people in your community learned new things through your Web pages?

Yes, though our Web page can attach importance to think the traditional art’s future,not only a knowledge but also a new idea that people ignored. 3.Have other people around the world learned new things about your community?

Yes, every country have it own traditional art, and face the same problem, we think this topic is a meaningful topic, and can give some different thinking to everyone. 4.What kind of feedback have you received?

Actually we received some feedback from the people in our community, they said we did a Good job to, and let everyone have chance to notify about the innovation’s meaning and effect to the traditional art. 5.How has your Web site helped them?

1.A Chung-He said that from our research, he sure he should keep his ideal go, no matter it’s still hard to do.

2. people who ignore the traditional art-we gave them an fresh point of it, traditional art can be good and keep, need everyone’s idea, otherwise we will be loose something precious.

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

1.We invite a parent one of us who is a repoter, to help us many things about interview. 2.There are many enthusiastic people we meet when we are watching the performace, they tell us what should we go to find out the iformation, and we also join them to clean the community, it quite intersting, and we also glad to provide our service to our community. 3.The working staff-They help us a lot, provide the interview chance, provide the data, aneven though help us record the video.

5) Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises (Optional)

1. A better sense of traditional art.

2. I learnt and now understand more about innovation.

3. I learnt how people cooperate