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1. Description of Our Community
Standing on the frontline of the battle zone; at all times, Dong-Yin always wears the mysterious veil (OR give people the mysterious impression). People can see it’s historical plain appearance, but are afraid to close to its wolfish breathing. Thanks to the ultimate modern technology; by going into the developed cyber-world, everyone now can visit the beautiful garden ~ the Dong-Yin trip. The vigorous adorable grade six graduates want to leave themselves and the younger students the beautiful memories. They volunteer to challenge this arduous (Light House) web pages construction. Even though our resources are not as sufficient as in Taiwan, we are highly enthusiastic and energetic toward this project. We are all rooting for each other. We want to write down the resplendent pages in our youth hood.
2. Summary of Our Project
Last year was the “Dong-Yin Light House’s “one hundred years old birthday. Until then, we started to feel proud to be the sons and daughter of Dong-Yin that have the honor to experience this historical moment in person. The beautiful Light House has been though the past one hundred years, but its grace is still resplendent after polishing by aging. The “Dong-Yin Light House“is the northern boundary’s light house of Taiwanese territory. It is the “white house” in Dong-Yin people’s mind. The beautiful sights are similar to the Mediterranean Sea, Dong-Yin can compare favorable with the Greek beauty. The Light House has succeeded to carry out the sons and daughters of Dong-Yin to the whole new tourism version. This year’s Rock-Fishing, Sea-Sightseeing, Scary Season and Light House Festival, etc. Tons of activities have mushroomed all over Dong-Yin. The gorgeous “Dong-Yin Light House” is the haven for Dong-Yin islanders. It is the light house which comforts traveler. It is also the confidential light house between China and Taiwan. It is our peaceful mind light house. Most importantly, it’s the (Dong-Yin)’s tourist light house.
Strategic offshore islets of military importance feature mysterious places, small areas and few residents. After the abolition of the Martial Law now, locals started to transfer and develop tourism industry. Dongyong Lighthouse, the only third-class historical site, is the major scenic spot to attract tourists after it was open in 2005. To us students and residents, we are fortunate to live with this glorious historical site and witness this monumental historical building. Therefore, we chose Dongyin Lighthouse as the topic of our project, and use tourism related objectives as our research directions to create this website . We include the six parts 1.Military aspect 2.Cultural aspect 3.Historical aspect 4.Tourist aspect 5.Ecological information 6.Cultural information
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:more than 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):
Computer facilities: For internet access, the school is equipped with the T1 Leased Line, which enables high speed in internet surfing and convenience in uploading and downloading teaching related data. To offer good leaning environment, the school has one computer room where the computers are equipped with Celeron-2.4G CPUs. Besides, there are three servers, including Internet server, DNS server and Fileserver that are all installed with WINDOWS 2003 operating system. All users in the administration office and computer room can access internet through those servers.
4. Problems We Had To Overcome
1. Climatic factors : The climate in tough in Dongyin where there are only freezing cold and boiling hot weathers. This strict condition made us painstaking when doing outdoor field researches near Dongyin Lighthouse. A. It is boiling hot without shaded places in September and October near the Dongyin Lighthouse. Therefore, children fully sweated when they listened to our introduction or painted the lighthouse under the hot sun. It was so hot that they can only stay around the lighthouse more than two hours. B. It is sever cold in November and December near the Dongyin Lighthouse, we still have to fight for the weather everyday to finish our project. 2. Time Limit: Some species can be seen only in some season. The best observatory periods of Black-tailed Gulls and native fishes are in winter and summer respectively. However, the research schedule is set from September to December. 3. Location factors: Though Dongyin is open to tourists now, due to its sensitive military restricted location, most areas are still forbidden, and not open to the public . Therefore, when we visited Information Control Squadron and Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion, watched exercises, beforehand coordination and contact are very exhausting. 4. Anthropic factors: From the parents' side: most parents are into business, so they are too busy in holidays to help with school activities. From the students' side: It is hard for students to take care of both school work and extracurricular activities well. Myself: It is my duty and one major test to keep my enthusiasm toward the webpage design contest, and to lead students to learn this computer skill happily and actively. 5.Knowledge Management: We just knew that we still lack many skills like computer related skills and knowledge, writing the project schedule, know-how in field researches, interview methods and etc.
5. Our Project Sound Bite
1. Learning to respect Mother Nature: Only when we live with Mother Nature peacefully, can we live well in the world. 2. Learning to treasure time : Only when we work hard, can we have rich harvests. 3.Learning to care about our land : Only when we care for the natural resources, can we have the sustainable environment. 4. Learning to appreciate others: Only when we appreciate others, can we be never helpless. 5. Learning to know our weakness : Only when we study hard and behave ourselves, can we boost more self-development.
6. How did your activities and research for this CyberFair Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?
1. To consolidate field trips with school courses, and to further boost students' enthusiasm for their hometown We are honored to have one of the only two lighthouses in the Matsu Islands, and also met the C entennial Anniversary of Matsu Dongyin Lighthouse . It offers precious life curriculums and movement of our lives. a. We held the lighthouses painting competition during the 200 4 C entennial Anniversary of Matsu Dongyin Lighthouse . b. We held the celebration festival to memorize the c entennial anniversary of the Dongyong Lighthouse at school . c. We held docent training activity in introducing the lighthouse, aiming to let teachers and students be more familiar with the lighthouse. 2. To train students and develop their diversified intelligences to impl ement Grade 1-9 Curriculum Guideline Children in the offshore island have less cultural shock than those in Taiwan Island, so that they may need more chances to develop their diversified intelligences. This competition gave them a great opportunity to develop diversified intelligences that are rarely utilized in daily lives. 3. To teach students computer skills through actual project implementation a. It shortened the gap between Matsu students and Taiwan students after the project when it comes to using electronics products. b. The completion enabled students to learn to collect data through surfing the net and searching the information on the websites. c. The project aims to enhance students' confidence after finishing those wonderful pieces of works. Moreover, student no longer thought that they could only use computers for playing games, and would know more functions of the computers. d. Students have learnd netiquette through receiving others' greetings and then sharing their finished web pages back with them. 4. To interact with the community through the events, and further care about and contribute to their homeland The survey content focused on interviews at all tourism-related shops in the community. We hope to make a detailed investigation and then figure out local people's thoughts and ideas toward the tourism industry. Then we can work out the solutions to the problems and find out future directions of the tourism industry here. We hope this report would help promote the tourism industry in Dongyin.
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1) What information tools & technologies did you used to complete your CyberFair project?
DV(2 units):Being used to record the interviewing processes to present those precious records lively on our website. Digital camera(3 units):Being used to take shots that are put on the web pages to illustrate the articles. Desktop computer(16 units)and notebook PC(1 unit):Being used to set up and design the website, uploading photos on the website, categorize the articles and other data. Internet system:Helping us to put on schedule reports, search online resources, as well as view and learn from previous website competition works. USB flash drives(2 units):They are necessary tools to save and backup data files. Printer:Being used to print out data for more convenience in editing. Computer software(PhotoImpact, DreamweaverMX, Flash, M/S Word and etc):Good tools are prerequisite to the successful execution of a job. Those software packages are essential tools in making a good website. Reference books of computer and webpage design:Helping us to solve problems when designing the web pages. Video editing:Aiming to extract the essential materials from the recording films. Face-to-face interviews:Helping us to collect more valuable data to enrich the content of this website.
2) In what ways did you act as "ambassadors" and spokespersons for your CyberFair project both on-line and in person.
Before the actual visiting, we will call the people who we want to visit and interview. During the actual visiting activities, a crowd of people (a group of elementary students) walk on the street also attracts local residents’ attention and concern. All the residents we meet are very friendly and enthusiastic that happily provide us the helps we need. Our researching group is glad to share the research results and processes to all the teams that participate the CyberFair Projects. After the website is completed, we will notify them our website address and kindly ask them to give us comments and recommendations.
3) What has been the impact of your project on your community?
Residents in Matsu Islands have been controlled by military restriction for a long while. However, they have no objection to the restriction but anxiety and struggles for their lives. As fishermen, they are tolerate, humanistic , and interested in different kinds of things here. The gorgeous Dongyong Lighthouse enables local people recreational, educational, and cultural development. It also helps the developments in local tourism, economics and arts. Visitors can have more viewpoints of this tourist lighthouse whenever they come here. ( 1 ) What skills have we learned ? Because of this competition, we learned a lot through scanning, using Flash software, making computer desktop wallpapers, taking photos, editing images, designing webpage layout and writing articles as well as the right ways to think, visiting particular places, interviewing and ability to organize things. Those experiences made us better and improved our potentials. ( 2 ) Did we have the teamwork spirit? In doing this project, we fulfilled coop eration and delegation. Besides, students were willing to help and support each other actively that thus made us more cohesive and harmonious in the class. We schoolmates are closer and know each other better. ? ( 3 ) What concept did we obtain after this project ? Through this experience, we learned about the concept of sustainable management that could lead us to better lives. The concept also united us with our homeland, and made us full of happiness during the project. ( 4 ) About the intelligent property issues In the Centurial Anniversary of the Matsu Dongyin Lighthouse, Dongyin Township Office and Lienjiang County Government published a series of books related to Dongyong Lighthouse. Therefore, we didn't have to put much effort on data collection. Also, students finished the project with both their physical and mental efforts. The whole website is our intelligence property except those quotes that have copy right issue from the internet information, charts and articles. We all informed them of our quotes in advance and asked for their agreement. Besides, we put on the originals of our reference materials on our web pages. As for the statistics of our studies, those were made from our own interviews and surveys. Therefore, we could say that we own the copyright of the presence on this website.
4) How did your project involve other members of your community as helpers and volunteers?
The topic of this research plan is “Dong-Yong Light House”, so we need to go to Light House and other places to visit for many times. We specially thank for: - The Volunteered Students’ Parents: The volunteered parents pick-up and drop-off us every time for the Light House visiting. This made our jobs much easier and saved us lots of troubles. - The Volunteered Narrators: We want to thank to Mr. Wang Shi-Quan, Mr. Cai Xing-Guang and Mr. Liu Jia-Ming. Their professional and hard-working narration let us gain a lot of knowledge. - The Assistance from the Visiting: During the research period, we all felt the enthusiasm and encouragement from everyone. No matters the government organizations or the military departments, even the residents, soldiers and tourists all give us any kind of helps we need to complete this activity. We will put more efforts to complete this research plan websites and make it to the best. We will not disappoint everyone who supports us.
5) Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises (Optional)
Because of this competition, we realized the beauty of the Dongyong lighthouse. After the researches, we found more beauty of our homeland, and the ways to promote the tourism industry here with the introduction of the lighthouse to other people who didn't know this place before. We are honored to live here. We have mission to promote our homeland and make it an ideal island to visit. One day, we hope Donyin become a dreaming place and are always glorious forever.
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