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1. Description of Our Community
The Zhongcheng Rd. of the Shilin Dist. in Taipei City, located between the sixth section of Zhongshan N. Rd. and Tianmu E. Rd., presents fairly special features of diverse industries and living styles. One day when visiting the School-History Room, we found some old photos of this road. And that motivated us to study more about the transitions of the Zhongcheng Rd. following the passage of time.
2. Summary of Our Project
We hope this project will become a learning activity for most of the students. In addition, through our study, the whole school members will participate and get to know this road that we closely related. Thus, associated with the local features, we would like to find out the relativity between industrial changes and life style along the Zhongcheng Rd.
The Zhongcheng Rd. is very familiar to the Taipei residents. Except the well-known department store of Dayeh Takashimaya being here for more than ten years, the Zhongcheng Rd. changes its view constantly. From paddy fields and wetlands, flourished beer houses to now, they all marked down the developments and features of the road. And every bit of those is waiting us to discover.
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:2-3
C. Connection speed used in the classroom:dedicated connection
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):
1.Facilities of the computer classroom: ?Number of computer: 70 computers for students, 2 for teachers ?Printer: 2 A4 Network Laser printers, 1A3 and 1 A4 Color Ink-Jet printers ?Others: 2 CD cupboards, Scanner, and controlled broadcasting teaching systems Every classroom (including subject classroom) has a multimedia computer with Internet access. And it is opened to each teacher and student.
2.Facilities: Network: WIN NT network, connecting to the academic network by ADSL (including WEB, Mail, VOD, Proxy, Firewall and the Administration Servers) ?Software: For system-NT4.0, Win98 For teaching- Microsoft Windows and Office Series, PhotoImpact, Print Magic, Computer-Aid teaching software, etc.. ?Teaching-Aid Resources: VOD (Video on demand) System
4. Problems We Had To Overcome
1. Difficulty of collecting historical data In the beginning, we thought collecting data was simple. But we were wrong. When we started to do this project, we found it so hard to get the historical data, especially the old photos. Neither the experienced schoolteachers nor the local government had the photos we needed. Finally, while interviewing the local elderly people, we were able to obtain those precious historical photos.
2. Team communication and cooperation Every member of our team had a busy schedule. It was not easy for us to get together and worked on this project. Besides, we still had to find time to investigate and interview people. Thanks to our teachers for spending a lot of break time directing us to finish all the works.
3. Different schedules of the interviewers In our project, we had to visit and interview many local stores. It was quite complicated to make the appointment at the appropriate time. The time should be during the open hours of the stores, and not on our class time. In addition, we had to write down the tape script after we recorded during the interviewing, and then use the computer to type.
5. Our Project Sound Bite
Any road that you walk through leaves the trace.
6. How did your activities and research for this CyberFair Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?
1. The language part --- After collecting raw data, we had to do a lot of reading, analyzing and organization. Afterward, we had to write reports and do the oral reports. In the process of doing this project, we actually promoted our own language competence. 2. The methodological part --- To complete our project, we applied lots of methods such as using the community resources, interviewing local people, drawing our own maps and visiting the historical sites, etc. 3. The art part --- We learned how to make a recording and photographing, draw pictures on paper and on screen, arrange the layout of the web pages, etc. 4. The social part --- Through teamwork, communication, interview and visiting, we really learned how to cooperate and make better interaction with society.
Besides, this project really motivated our abilities of thinking and reflection; encouraged us to find problems, analyze and solve them. Through continuously exchanging of ideas, we finally completed this project and learned a lot.
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