CyberFair Project ID: 4097

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International Schools CyberFair Project Narrative
Title: The Various lifes of Veteran Villages
Category: 2. Community Groups and Special Populations
URL: http://163.32.74.12/if9104/Villages
Bibliography: http://163.32.74.12/if9104/Village/Bibliography.htm

School: Li-Chi High School
    Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Taiwan

9 students, ages 17~18 worked together to complete this CyberFair project on November 3, 2005. They have participated in CyberFair in the following year(s): 2005

Classes and Teachers: yu-ching Wu,Susan Chang,Andy Song

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Our School's Web Site: http://www.lcvs.kh.edu.tw/

Project Overview

1. Description of Our Community

There is much and very much culture of the place of Taiwan, but to Family dependent's village ??But these two wordings are so strange , most materials are all given an oral account of and learnt by elders. Population of family dependent's village is all old soldier and its family dependents coming over from continent mainly in initial stage , because of the difference of tasks, disperse in the area of each of Taiwan, in this small village, epitome that Buddha is like a little continent that carefully to look at walking back and forth . According to angle which grade seven grows at present Family dependent's village ,We come person who divide land, sea with services first, subdivide , empty ' three family dependent village ', we introduce and interview to learn more materials one.

2. Summary of Our Project

We will see the angle of grade seven Family dependent's village it. Here Family dependent's village Land , sea , empty the army of China disperse among each light bamboo hedge because of difference of its tasks. The they life one 'food, clothing, live, not walk 'different from by nowing too greatly, seen from the forties the village to the family dependent of now, the very obvious one has its difference nature. Now Family dependent's village The destiny that plans to move towards too and is removed, we will use our angle being seen, to probe into it with the difference of now in the past, we do the detailed introduction with ' phoenix's mountain , left camp , Okayama ' of southern areas at present.

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):

The evening or vacation at ordinary times : There is PC to contact the way while surfing the Net in every household to use Chinese telecommunication ADSL at home: E-MAIL mailbox and Y ahoo! Rub immediately open to offer by chatroom.. Like there are important things that are announced , get in touch with the news in brief or the mobile telephone .

4. Problems We Had To Overcome

Solve 1 of difficulty: Spoken dialect: Unless when just it keep in touch, it is old have the getting more serious very accent veteran grandfather,it need not there is village younger generationing in by explain, adopted the digit recording pen later, listened carefully after going home.

Whether solve 2 difficulty. Can only interview the field on holidays , people who must cooperate and make an appointment time, and must pass The person in family dependent's village or the other person can just find our necessary information or the materials .

Whether solve 3 difficulty. If using the old materials live , although show the one's purpose in coming, most people many to will consider, afraid we have other purposes , reach family dependent at the village for the first time, the sense that it is since that I defend that people all have, but we show the one's purpose in coming sincerely , this doubt all dies away slowly.

Whether solve 4 difficulty. Interview the experience part: Reach family dependent's village for the first time , has not previewed and rehearsed how to interview the way in advance , has had a meeting to revise after waiting for back, examine out and interview the way and content more concretly.

Whether solve 5 difficulty. There are some great grand fathers in interviewing , always Uncle, propose the government and political relevant content at present, after proved by the teacher after going back to the school, relevant content and issue only about politics, do not list in this activity while writing down , take the neutrality way to interview.

Whether solve 6 difficulty. While cooperating in initial stage, everybody has different views, but discuss through a lot of meetings, everybody's tacit understanding has already been set up slowly.

Whether solve 7 difficulty. Courage part: Just began everybody and did not dare to ask that did not dare to make a speech either , but after training for several times ,Relatively have courage .

5. Our Project Sound Bite

Theme interviewed this time : Review for the theme with the humanity of family dependent's village, distinguish with the army,the navy and the air forces, the geographical position has stretched over Kaohsjung and two counties and cities of Kaohsjung county, if the left camp's area was all the important maritime affairs strategic position most of Taiwan from era to Japanese TV play period from the Ming Dynasty, and can find Japanese TV play Japanese building of era in the left camp family dependent's village, and the left old clan of camp concentrates on Lotus pool jar Nearby.

The phoenix is Lu HaiJun's cradle in area on the mountain, in this school , ground force person's school and site of Chinese Military Academy in advance while having, family dependent's village here belongs to the ground force for being most because of the geo- relation.

The area of Okayama is the centre among an air force, there are air force machine schools and site of empty Chinese Military Academy here, because the number of people of air force is the proportion of number of people in the army at least, so each level ground in the village of family dependent is counted biggest.

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

What is called family dependent village, find a room for community that armyman's family stay in as its name suggests , mean army and his family dependents , army of country , at coming platforming in front and at the back of the 38 the Republic of China especially, found a room for temporarily and stayed temporarily in the barracks where people withdrew of day separately by initial stage , or use the school building , house owed by a citizen, even putting up tabernacle and building the bamboo hedge ,etc., do things simply and thriftily, it is long, moulding into its unique life style virtually, the name of ' family dependent's village ' was turned into modern an indelible ring of local culture of Taiwan from then on.

Because the economy of Taiwan is developed fast, and at the same time the rise of community's consciousness, environmental protection is combined with community's autonomy idea, the community builds the project to then become Country's most important cultural policy, because of the trend of above-mentioned three-strands, especially ' Literature and history circle 'esponse very much dark, recall with deep feeling and make a thorough review on the result, hope to pass correctly ' Family dependent's village ' historic significance,namely excavate or keep ' Family dependent's village 'Cultural characteristic.

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Project Elements

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

Hardwares: 1.Digit recording pen 2.D V video cassette recorder 3.Digit camera 4.Scanner

Software: 1.Voice To Wave 2.Photoimpact 3.Frontpage 4.Flash 5.Word 6.Fonts 7.Nero 8.Yahoo!strange rub Messenger

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

Lead us this group of students through the teacher, It was not big partly Have lived in family dependent's village, or had once been there Family dependent's village ,While really going to keep in touch, need to pass the ambassador , For instance: The long , cares about the Congressman of this stretch of land , sets up committee one is participated in commonly in the drillmaster , village, and contact the relevant important personage of every li and help to cooperate voluntarily. While visiting , because the person visited uses is mandarin, it but does not lose its yet mixed with among them , so in the course of visiting hometown the accents,the people on not it is younger to need ing in by help by additional remarks, it is the handling tool that we use the recording pen by oneself, repeat and listen carefully after going back, and then shift into the characters.

Understand according to the above one that can know, the community personage actually understands to family dependent's village it is limited, unless there are demands , will not go to keep in touch voluntarily , will hope to utilize this field to visit in the activity, the person that made outside family dependent's village, understand further that the person in family dependent's village is lovely and hospitable.

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

We formed a team and participated in the competition last year, all just hoped for students in the school or the departments at that time , determined to participate in, does not mind the place was but in the fine piece of writing of the match of the city of Kaohsjung last year, this school supports this activity in a more cost-effective manner this year, advertise that classmates gather around and jump to participate in, this mere school has the above teams of No. 28 Branch.

This activity, assemble many people's strength and mental work to agitate together , study to and has not offered knowledge and skill in the textbook, such as

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

1.Pass people's pulse:

1 . Classmates' parents : It so happened that there are classmates that live like the residential district (the sons and younger brothers of air force ) in nine in the class, by student's mother Appear, lead us to enter and interview.

2 . Old Teacher : (Breast of high school ¡úWhether pass its father high Wang Jue President and Cui public security teacher). Build through pieces of Sichuan Province Zhyuan and Song virtuous teacher recommend , take the initiative every room , drillmaster of school , is it understand the army,the navy and the air forces to contact (whether this school drillmaster for drillmaster , land,sea,and air of background).

3 . Teach Officer : Analyse ground force (phoenix's mountain ) , the navy soldier (left camp ) , air force (Okayama ) , has not pulled down family dependent's geographical position of the village yet at present and recommended the local personage to we.

4 . Congressman and setting up the committee : Thank and stand through director Guo of the service center of Dai DeMing , Congressman of locality , and beautiful Wen of river first here Committee service center east beautiful lady, offer us level message and when hold the relevant family dependent's activity item of the village.

2.Establish the relation:

From just visited family dependent's village, until a lot of interviews , one brings back to life, two times skillful, trust and harmonious friendly feelings that have already set up with local villagers each other, walk back and forth Buddha we they one the same one's share of the village. 1 . It is familiar to be known for the first time.

2 . Defended but speak out freely.

5) Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises (Optional)

Family dependent's village spreads out and turns into it a new clan's culture in Taiwan, but because era changes , economy promote and two people of family dependent village values change, and outside a large amount of people Move, marry and settle down in the richer new cities and towns, but there were that elders who once burst forth humane accomplishment in Taiwan now, before taking advantage of family dependent's village not to remove yet, bound into book form according to collecting every family dependent's history relic in the village hospitably, leave the later generation descendants , make the ancestor hardworking and thrifty , kind and gentle ....When,for using lifetime knowingly follow the example of a wrongdoer.

Pass and visit these three months, let us understand that did not know ' culture of family dependent's village ' of local culture well in the past , let us understand more this land in Taiwan was lovely , thank and once help our elders here.

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