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1. Description of Our Community
Our community is a small clan of Paiwan native in Taiwan. During the period of Japanese occupation, Japanese forced the clansmen to move from the North Mt. Dawu to the mountainside of the Mt. Liding for the convenience of centralized management. After the liberation, the clansmen moved again to the present mountain foot, the Jiayi Village, which is subjected to the Pingtung County Majia Township and lies on the northeastern part of Pingtung County. It borders with the Mt. Liding in the back, Chaozhou Fault in the front, and its terrain appears like a longitudinal valley stretching from north to south.
2. Summary of Our Project
After opening the Yanshan Road at the end of the 1993, the transportation in Jiayi Village tends to be more and more convenient. However, the tourists come and go in haste and just climb the Mt. Liding behind the village, and have no time to appreciate the culture, history, and ecology of the clan. It is really a great pity. In recent years, cultural and ecological tour becomes popular, and this village has already been included in National Scenic Area, and the Maolin National Scenic Area Administration Office has also gradually established such facilities as the nearby Paiwan totem. The project initiators have been serving here for more than ten years, and feel regrettable that few know such a quiet clan, thus by forming a team and conducting the Cyberfair Project, we expect more people get to know this beautiful land.
3. Our Computer and Internet Access
A. Percentage of students using the Internet at home:less than 20
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):
The network environment of our school is capable of Internet access through the ADSL dedicated line provided by the Pingtung County Computer Center. There is a computer classroom on campus installed with 18 pieces of P? computers, which, though old, is a favorite place of students. Besides computer lessons, lessons in other domains, matched with course contents, can be facilitated by this computer classroom. Even in noon break, it opens to students through registration. During the period of attending the Cyberfair, all the team members, at the cost of the noon break, make the Cyberfair Project complete smoothly by utilizing different facilities of the computer classroom.
4. Problems We Had To Overcome
(1) The obsolescence problem of the computer facilities:
The computers of the school have been issued for five years, and are enough for net surfing in normal classes. But it is really difficult for them to cope with the edit and production of pictures, movies and websites. Fortunately, this difficulty is solved with the personal computers of teachers and the computers sponsored by Hope Agent Development Association. Here we’d like to express our sincere and deep gratitude.
(2) The gropingly research methods of the Cyberfair Project: Because it is the first time that the team attends such kind of project, the selection of the theme is at last determined after several discussions and appreciations of the works in all previous sessions. Indebted to the local teachers’ help of contacting the aged person, artistic workers, ecclesiastic workers, the project can go smooth, and the present information can be as accurate as possible after voice recording, translation, video recording, photograph, repeated interview, record and revision. And then the present information about the surrounding within five kilometers away from Yanshan Road is acquired after repeated plans and interviews.
(3) Collection of the ecological and cultural information: Jiayi Village moved during the period of Japanese occupation from remote mountain to the mountainside of Mt. Liding, and 70 or 80 years ago migrated to the present site after liberation. There is no literal record during the almost 80 years, and the persons who can remember the history are very few. The human cultural history almost comes from something being told. To make the history collection accurate, the collectors try to seek what most of the persons agree with and delete the disputed.The ecological resources in the mountain behind the village can be said to be rich. Besides leading the members to explore it, we also seek for the help from National Pingting University of Science and Technology, to identify plants and animals. The network resources also provide much information, which help our members to solve difficulties.
5. Our Project Sound Bite
“There is a will, there is a way”. Although it is a well-known saying for us, only a few people can totally digest it. This project helps us to prove and digest the saying, and deeply appreciate it. It is not a short growing experience, from fear and exclusion in the very beginning to the finaly acceptance.
Afterthoughts: (A-wei)
This activity made me more familiar with Jiayi Village and its agelong stories, promoted our feeling and competitiveness between each other, sped up our typing speed, and allowed us to be more familiar with and know computers. The information we collect includes: the legendary patron saint of the Jiayi Village, Siver, who is an abandoned stone; the visit to the workshop of lazurite beads behind the school, to Mr. Feng’s workroom and to Mt. Liding, Chaozhou Fault.
Afterthoughts: (Chu-jun)
I learned a lot from this activity. I visited Uncle Chen who makes lazurite beads, Mr. Feng who produces pottery clay, and an old grandpa. I also climbed Mt. Liding, went to see an amazing stone. Each visit or exploration brings me fruitful knowledge. Although I am a member of Jiayi Village, the activities has taught me much about Jiayi Village, and allowed me to embrace Jiayi Village. I am really glad to attend such activity and I appreciate very much that the teachers choose. I thank very much Mr. Wu, Mr. Shih, Mr. Hsu, Mr. Cho, Mr. Tsai, and also three big sisters from National Pingtung University of Science and Technology.
6. How did your activities and research for this CyberFair Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?
1. Cooperate with the social indigenous teaching: In the research process of this project, we spent holidays and every Wednesday afternoon in interviewing, shooting, and recording in each corner of the village. We then, in the course of the social indigenous teaching, reported to and shared with classmates the knowledge and reflections we obtained, to let them feel our joy and growing. All were surprised in the discussion to find that there lurks so much interesting and rich implication in this seemingly ordinary community, which aroused the interest of some students to go together for visits on Wednesday afternoon, and to, on their own initiative, consult us about new discovery.
2.Cultivate our love of native soil:
In this activity, we indeed stepped outside the campus to do some research to further understand our own community and introduced it to other people, letting them know and understand the beauty of the community. It also made possible for the villagers dispersed among other places to feel the warmth from home over the Internet and to relieve their pain of homesickness. They will be proud of their origin in the insignificant Jiayi Village, so they will work hard and encourage each other. We hope through the network this Paiwan clan can be widely spread and everybody has the chance to enjoy such calm, unsophisticated, ordinary and plain beauty.
3.Our development and growing:
During the activity, every body can act as from an executive to a project designer, from an audience to a speaker, from a reader to a writer, and can learn how to ask, record and sort out to make the information to be their own. We totally understand that if we didn’t do it, the cultural history would be lost due to its hearsay nature.
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