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1. Description of Our Community
Chashan Village, where we live, is located at the southernmost corner of the Alishan Township, at an altitude of 350m to 1200m. Its original name “CEA YA MA” means “the plain at mountainside.” The population here consists of the Tsou, Bunun and Hans nationality. They work cooperatively on building up the village’s tribal culture, and the village presents in a highly diversified appearance. Moreover, Chashan has a unique “Hu-Fu (arbor) sharing culture,” a “CEA YA MA band” and the “tribal hostel.” Woodcarvings and stone carvings can be seen everywhere, telling the legendary stories of the ancestors. Come to Chashan and you’ll find yourself being embraced by the nature together with the hospitable villagers. It has also been a focus of development by the Chiayi County Government recently as the “Chashan Agricultural Leisure Park”.
2. Summary of Our Project
Chashan Village is usually full of visitors on weekends. We have a lot of tourism resources in Chashan Village, which will attract visitors to choose Chashan over the Tanayi Valley and the sunrise at Alishan. The tourism industry has been the major income source of Chashan. Therefore, we try to explore Chashan’s tourism resources in two categories, namely the natural ecology and humanistic characteristics. However, we hope that tourists come for upholding the existing Chashan Village culture. While developing tourism, we hope that visitors recognize and respect our culture. This homepage is made for introducing Chashan’s tourist attractions and cultural characteristics to the world.
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:2-3
C. Connection speed used in the classroom:not sure
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):
Only a few of our team members have a computer at home. Therefore, we usually make use of the school’s computer classroom after school or on holidays. There are 20 computers in the classroom, with dedicated-line connection, but the connection is not stable and would be easily disconnected, particularly on rainy days. When we were disconnected, we saved the information in a floppy disk and continued uploading when connection resumed. In addition, the church has received computer donation from Microsoft recently, and therefore, we have one more place to go for using computer other than the school.
4. Problems We Had To Overcome
1. Transportation problem: With a tourism theme, we have to explore every corner of Chashan frequently. But most of the team members live in Neighborhood 3 or 4, and therefore we have to ask for the teachers’ help in giving us a ride when we have to go to Neighborhood 1 or other neighborhoods. We even have to bother uncles in the village when there are too many of us. 2. Too many activities: Our school offers a lot of extra-curricular activities, such as the choir, baseball practice, in addition to our homework. It therefore leaves us little time after finishing other activities. In many instances, teachers from the city lecture us directly after they have collected the information, or some senior-grades give us quizzes through games in order to help us learn. 3. Lack of experience: Many team members are participating in this kind of activity for the first time. Only a primary school teacher and several students from the National Chung Cheng University have prior experience. And since we have changed the topic once, we did not undergo a smooth process in many activities and in organizing the information. Besides, we sometimes lagged behind in our progress because we had too many activities.
5. Our Project Sound Bite
1. It is great to be able to use computer often, because we don’t usually have such chance at home. And the senior-grades taught us a lot about website production and network applications. We have also watched a lot of videos about computer, which were interesting. 2. Using digital products: The senior-grades have taught us about what the icons on a digital camera mean, and give us opportunity to actually operate a digital camera and a record pen. Of course, we have also used the tape recorder. We rarely have the chance to touch these things in usual life, and they are really useful for collecting information. 3. It is really funny to travel all around and go to places where we don’t usually go, and making up stories about the attractions of our homeland. I can tell visitors to my home about these stories when they come.
6. How did your activities and research for this CyberFair Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?
1. People-oriented sentiment: includes understanding oneself, respecting and appreciating others and different cultures, etc. 2. Systematic organization skills: include the coordination of intellect and sensibility, conciliation of knowledge and action, consolidation of humanity and technology. 3. Democratic cultivation: includes expressing oneself, independent thinking, communicating with others, accepting those different from ourselves, teamwork and cooperation, social services, responsibility and abiding by laws, etc. 4. Countryside and international awareness: includes fondness for countryside, love of nation, worldview (including culture and ecology) 5. Life-long learning: includes taking initiative in exploration, problem solving, using information and language, etc.
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1) What information tools & technologies did you used to complete your CyberFair project?
Oral interview:Interview hosts of hostels, Mr. Tian, Mrs. An, Mr. Yang, Mr. Hsu, etc. This is the major source of first-hand information for our Cyberfair Project. MP3 recorder:It is an important tool for recording our interviews, especially when we didn’t have time to jot down notes. We can also recall our memory at a later time, which is helpful when we organize and present our information. Digital camera:The digital camera helps us grasp the beauty of Chashan, and gives us good record of our activities. Being able to see the photos as we take them also ensures successful photo-taking as we could delete the unsuccessful ones. Tape recorder:The tape recorder is also indispensable, because it allows us to listen to the record immediately after recording, so that we may re-do it again when there is any imperfection. Scanner and printer:Our drawings of the beautiful Chashan are scanned into the computer with the help of a scanner, and then they are uploaded to the webpage, so that everyone in the world could see what Chashan is like in our eyes. And the printer helps print out the documents as a written record. Mobile phone and telephone:We contact people in the community via mobile phone and telephone. These tools help us confirm schedule and contact others. Computer software:We use software likes the PhotoImpact, Dreamweaver, FrontPage, etc. to construct our website.For the sake of information collection, we usually go back to our father and mother for advice on funny places in Chashan, and by this chance we tell them about our participation in the activity run by Hope Agent Development Association. Moreover, we have visited every hostel host for collecting information about hostels. They are curious about this group of children. Moreover, our sudden approach to Chashan’s tourists has also aroused their curiosity about us. We have also interviewed the director of Community Development Association to learn about the future development of tourism in Chashan. We have made many in the community aware of us as a group of promoters for the local tourism.
2) In what ways did you act as "ambassadors" and spokespersons for your CyberFair project both on-line and in person.
For the sake of information collection, we usually go back to our father and mother for advice on funny places in Chashan, and by this chance we tell them about our participation in the activity run by Hope Agent Development Association. Moreover, we have visited every hostel host for collecting information about hostels. They are curious about this group of children. Moreover, our sudden approach to Chashan’s tourists has also aroused their curiosity about us. We have also interviewed the director of Community Development Association to learn about the future development of tourism in Chashan. We have made many in the community aware of us as a group of promoters for the local tourism.
3) What has been the impact of your project on your community?
We have visited many tourist attractions and explored the culture of Chashan’s indigenous people during the project. Our culture features the combination of three nationalities, which is rare in other places. This is also from the interviews that we understand visitors’ feeling and opinions about Chashan, and the residents’ expectation about tourism in Chashan. This increases our love for Chashan. What we see as ordinary things are in fact very special and unique in the eyes of others. We will also be more willing to help when our father and mother are busy promoting Chashan’s tourism on weekends. The two-day trip we designed will be provided for tourists’ reference, and we will become the little guides of Chashan.
4) How did your project involve other members of your community as helpers and volunteers?
Many volunteers in the community have enthusiastically provided us valuable information when we work on the project. For example, uncle Hsu has told us about the ecology he has studied for long – firebugs and frogs. He has even given us a lecture, which opens our eyes to the really wonderful natural environment of Chashan. Granduncle Yang has told us all he knows when being asked about the Tsou language, and has also taken the chance to tell us the special uses of many plants.
In addition, we have to thank the Hope Agent Development Association for its support for us, so that we can learn so much about our homeland through this activity, and have the big brothers and sisters from the National Chung Cheng University coming here to organize activities for us, and give us chance to get in touch with digital products. We thank Mr. Cheng as well, for coming up to Chashan to show his concern over our progress and situation. Any single piece of information on the webpage is basically our own work, but a large part of information on the ecology is provided by Mr. Hsu. He spends his time at night to collect this information, and it represents a long period of hard work and research. Besides, we ourselves have made up and written many legendary stories about Chashan’s attractions on the website. These are stories that we rack our brains to make up. We will be extremely angry if anyone takes away our hard-earned information. Mr. Hsu has also spent a long time to do the research. We thank him very much.
5) Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises (Optional)
During the process of this activity, we find that our homeland has cultivated a very strong cultural and artistic atmosphere, although we don’t have long history or appealing historical relics, neither do we have department stores comparable with those in the big cities. Here, many household goods in our families are made out of our clever thoughts and imagination, and these articles embrace the artistic tradition of our tribal culture. Moreover, we realize that we can not only help out to attend the family’s store occasionally, but also make up legendary stories about Chashan’s attractions, so that visitors may not only enjoy the scenery here, but also get to know about Chashan’s culture, and appreciate our culture, and fall in love when our homeland.
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(Project ID: 3728)
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