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1. Description of Our Community
Everyone has heard of the story of “Hongyeh Minor League Baseball.” We are located inside this legendary mountainous area. This is a place free from pollution and disturbance, with only the beautiful land and pure hearts. On top of the Hongyeh Minor League Baseball, we also have the Hongyeh Hot Spring, Butterfly Valley, Bunun Tribe, eight-part harmony, and the naïve and enthusiastic Bunun tribesmen. Through this website, we wish that more friends would come to know us, and contribute to this story-filled tribe.
2. Summary of Our Project
Hongye is a place woven from its humanistic culture and the nature. It is endowed with unique natural resources. In the past, older people live with this piece of land in the most natural way. They created the history, and made the Hongyeh Village today. As time goes by, we the Little Heroes take on the responsibility to pass on the tradition now. The professional ramie clothing technique has been declining with the passage of time. Today, the new generation has to take on the mission of carrying on the tradition. In this program, we will learn, carry on and record this technique with the help of the latest technology today. And through our record, we would like to share the history of Hongye with the world, in the hope that more people will fall in love with this land.
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:1
C. Connection speed used in the classroom:not sure
D. Number of years our classroom has been connected to the Internet:1
E. Additional comments concerning your computer and/or Internet access (Optional):
Actually, Hongyeh Elementary School located at uphill does not have a stable network connection. Disconnection always happens, or there is unstable connection during the transmission process. Therefore, we make use of hardware equipment to carry the information as much as for both teaching and Internet surfing. Our school is connected via academic network, while at home, we are connected via the broadband service of Chung Hwa Telecom. Therefore, the networking problem may have to be dealt with when we go back to the downtown. This is a problem that needs to be considered in terms of the network environment.
4. Problems We Had To Overcome
Technology Team members are not very familiar with the website. Though they have experience with the web, they are not really proficient in the technique of website design. By learning from the web and books, team members have more contacts with website production and the related techniques. The team also borrows classrooms from the school for group discussion as a way to learn.
Timeline Some of the team members’ classes conflict with the arranged time, leading to uneven allocation of time. Some members with more free time are usually required to work harder. Division of labor is exercised. Some members who could not participate in person are asked to do more information and teaching material collection work. The information is then handed over to members with more free time for teaching.
Team Team members usually fail to meet or discuss together because of faculty or society affairs. This leads to lag-behind in progress or things being forgotten. Teachers at Hongyeh Elementary School would remind us, urge us, and require us to finish the things as scheduled once and again.
Language The language problem we face is not one of communication difficulty, but that some children make errors in pronunciation or writing Chinese characters, and some of them even do not know how to write a word. More patience is needed to guide them, and teachers are asked to give them more time to finish the task. After collecting their information, counter-checking is conducted.
Experience The whole project has been conducted in the dark, because only one member has experience working with the last year’s team, but very limited previous experience is left behind. Discuss more with the school teachers and get more assistance from them, and then gradually work out a better way to conduct the activities. Although many things are new to us, the teachers’ guidance has relieved our worries very much.
Progress In fact, our progress has always lagged behind, because of the heavy workload of the third-year university curriculum and the many activities for the fourth-year members. Members may not be able to meet even at one or two o’clock at midnight because of their busy work. After collecting the necessary information, use the winter vacation or weekends to make up for the progress as much as possible. Then, the relatively freer time during the beginning of the second semester, when fewer activities are organized, is used to catch up with the progress.
5. Our Project Sound Bite
We finally finished the website amidst the bustle of work. Though it does seem very sophisticated, every bit of it is the result of our hard work. Perhaps the website does not look very well-developed; it presents all the things we have learnt from project. Conflicts and communication problems did appear from time to time during the process, but fortunately, all team members are nice. We are grateful about this. Everyone is relieved when the whole project is finished. We have made our effort in passing down our history and tradition. During the process, we have become part of the historical link. We hope that someone would continue to carry on this culture in the future.
6. How did your activities and research for this CyberFair Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?
The whole project is mainly worked out in concert with the school disciplines and programs of “language, arts and culture, information, society.” Through this project, students get familiar with their own tribal language by engaging in conversation with the elders. And through the artistic creation, students are allowed to re-create the original appearance of the stories through imagination. Moreover, in the social domain, students come to know more about the regional culture and humanistic history of their own place. Finally, all works are presented in front of the readers through the website production. With the complete project, students are able to learn multi-disciplinary knowledge.
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