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1. Description of Our Community
At the early stage of Taiwanese agricultural society, people start work at daybreak and retire at sunset. Day-to-day amusement in addition to gather in front of temple plaza or under the tree, to chat idly and play chess; as well as to invite a dramatic troupe to perform traditional play, such as kua-a-hyi, nien-kua, po-tai-hyi, shadow puppets, etc. At that time, temple and theater are major leisure places for people. Currently, Taiwan is a contemporary society with diversified culture, thus, items of leisure entertainment are varied. Under the lash of TV, movies, popular music, audience of traditional drama have gradually run off and performance of traditional play has also slight day-by-day. Although performing environment of traditional drama is very hard, traditional art workers are still willing to pass it on and to maintain traditional art performance in order to allow Taiwan traditional culture to be continued; as well as to hear countryside melody for children.
2. Summary of Our Project
At the end of the Ming dynasty and the beginning of Chin dynasty, Taiwanese explain-and-sing music being brought in by immigrants from Changchou and Chuanchou; at that time, it was called as ? tai-wan-kua-a ? . To accommodate with local customs and practices as well as to combine Taiwan folk ballad, ? tai-wan-kua-a ? , also called as ? tai-wan-nien-kua ? , has been gradually taking shape with thick locality tints afterwards . Going the round of in society ? tai-wan-kua-a ? has already three hundred years. At the early stage, through it, ancestor ' s hard-working and happiness, anger, sorrow and joy of life have been expressed; as well as it was the important vitality food for them. Currently, explain-sing arts has gradually declined and even more facing to be an awkward situation of fail to be handed down from past generations. Through admiration and study ? nien-kua ? , in addition to allow us to look into ancestors ' various life, important local culture can be promoted and to find ? tai-wan-kua-a ? back which has been gradually forgotten.
3. Our Computer and Internet Access
A. Percentage of students using the Internet at home:more than 50%
B. Number of workstations with Internet access in the classroom:4-6
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):
The network environment at school: As a public school in the metropolis of Taiwan, we have better developed Internet facilities in school. There are three well-equipped multimedia computer labs in our school. We also have one computer per classroom, and one computer per teacher. In total, there are more than three hundred computers in our school, which is sufficient for teachers and students to use. In August, 1999, Department of Information Education, Education Department of Taipei City Government established an optical fiber with the capacity of 10MB download and 10MB upload. The network environment at home: All the team members have computers at home which are connected to ADSL, so working at home, we can transmit the data by e-mail and Yahoo Messenger.
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4. Problems We Had To Overcome
Obstacle of language communication When visiting the aged people, it is necessary in Taiwanese. Most kids understand it but ask questions in Mandarin. For those kids with Hakka as mother language, do not understand at all; assistance of teachers or volunteers are needed. In addition, as the text of “nien-kua” is all in Taiwanese, if performer sings or speaks or skills of shifting melody unclearly, it may cause misunderstanding.
It is difficult to experience predecessors living way Taiwan nien-ka has been declined. Currently, it is formally performed only in Community College and Taiwanese seminar while those on streets, temples and night markets has been totally disappeared. It is a pity for young generation unable to personal experience predecessors living. Through interview with aged people, different turns of life as living environment will be realized.
5. Our Project Sound Bite
Although performing environment of traditional drama is very hard, traditional art workers are still willing to pass it on and to maintain traditional art performance in order to allow Taiwan traditional culture to be continued; as well as to hear countryside melody for children.
6. How did your activities and research for this CyberFair Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?
Through study of traditional Taiwan nien-kua, it is expected that from understanding and appreciation traditional arts and realize its improvement; as well as through study of traditional music, people living conditions, change of society consciousness and how to reflect culture changes have been conferred. In addition to increase knowledge, we have also learned research methodology, interview techniques, reports arrangement, usage of digital equipment and application to internet as well as related computer techniques.
During the process, division based on personal capability and willingness, emphasizing teamwork spirit, sharing and cooperation, mistakes and time will be reduced and shorten.
http://librarywork.taiwanschoolnet.org/gsh2006/gsh4580/narrative3.htm
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