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1. Description of Our Community
Dacai Town is located at southwestern region of Huangzhong County, Qinghai Province, with average altitude 2760m. The total population is about 27,000 , including mainly three ethnic groups: Hui, Han and Tibetan. Dacai is 48km away from the capital-Xining City, and 21km away from the county government. It’s surrounded by mountains in four sides. In the south, there is famous Buddhist mount-Mount Shengdinan. In the west, it is the Pandao Reservoir. Though the industrial development is limited in Dacai, the local culture and customs is wide spread. During festivals or vacation, Quyi performers are always invited to give a show, which is a good way to enrich people’s spiritual life.
2. Summary of Our Project
In order to introduce Quyi more clearly, we divide project narrative into three parts: discussion on Quyi material record, interview of community people and teachers, promotion of Quyi in campus. The detail is as follows.
1?Team formation 2?Set our subject and name our team 3?Register on the internet 4?Task assignment and material collection 5?Contact interviewees 6?Visit Quyi courses 7?Discuss on the questions for interviewees 8?Make our schedule and ask teacher’s permission for being absent 9?Visit Ganjia Primary School 10?Discuss our interview and exchange ideas 11?Discuss on the interview questions of Mr. Dang Hai-yun 12?Interview in Ganjia Village 13?Interview in Dacai Village 14?Classify written material 15?Visit Quyi course in Dacai Middle School 16?Interview students in Dacai Middle School 17?Website construction 18?Write content on web pages 19?Make web pages. 20?Upload web pages. 21?Invite staff in Town and Talent Technologies to do the translation and debug.
3. Our Computer and Internet Access
A. Percentage of students using the Internet at home:none
B. Number of workstations with Internet access in the classroom:none
C. Connection speed used in the classroom:dial-up modem
D. Number of years our classroom has been connected to the Internet:1
E. Additional comments concerning your computer and/or Internet access (Optional):
The connection speed used in the classroom is 32k as we use dial-up modem. Our team members search all the information on one computer. We have no computer at home.
4. Problems We Had To Overcome
1?Though students like interviewing, their schedule was conflicted with interviewee’s time plan. As our interviewee-Mr. Dang Hai-yun lived in the county seat; our interview plan was under great pressure. Solution :Teacher went to interview alone and then retold it to students. 2?Students’ safety is the most important thing in our research. However, our interviews were often made temporarily; we had to apply to school leaders and then carried out our plan. Solution :Make the plan as early as possible. Ask the students to pay attention to safety. 3?Though we know a little about Quyi, we are not familiar with its terms. And thus, we can’t express our ideas clearly. Solution :Teachers tell students that clarifying material is an important aspect in doing research. 4?Many spending can’t be applied for reimbursement. Solution:Teacher told the students to pay the expedition by themselves in advance. Students still like to participate in the research. Town and Talent Technologies promised to give some financial aid after the completion of website. 5?Though students have great interest in doing research, they don’t like clarifying material and typing. Solution :Teachers tell students that clarifying material is an important aspect in doing research. 6?There is no teacher who is skilled in constructing web pages. Solution :We learn it by ourselves and studied other web sites. 7?Though we put great effort in doing research, our information can’t be reused in other courses. Solution :We plan to participate in more campus activities to promote the development of Quyi. 8?In the interview, we found that more material needed to collect and more work need to be done. Solution :Though we felt the pressure on our shoulder became heavier with the coming deadline, we were proud of our achievement. 9?The computer in campus is out of date and the speed of internet access is too slow. Solution :We upload the web pages in bars of the county and city.
5. Our Project Sound Bite
Project overview
Category: local music
Description of our community
Dacai Town is located at southwestern region of Huangzhong County, Qinghai Province, with average altitude 2760m. The total population is about 27,000 , including mainly three ethnic groups: Hui, Han and Tibetan. Dacai is 48km away from the capital-Xining City, and 21km away from the county government. It’s surrounded by mountains in four sides. In the south, there is famous Buddhist mount-Mount Shengdinan. In the west, it is the Pandao Reservoir. Though the industrial development is limited in Dacai, the local culture and customs is wide spread. During festivals or vacation, Quyi performers are always invited to give a show, which is a good way to enrich people’s spiritual life. In order to introduce Quyi more clearly, we divide project narrative into three parts: discussion on Quyi material record, interview of community people and teachers, promotion of Quyi in campus. The detail is as follows.
1?Team formation 2?Set our subject and name our team 3?Register on the internet 4?Task assignment and material collection 5?Contact interviewees 6?Visit Quyi courses 7?Discuss on the questions for interviewees 8?Make our schedule and ask teacher’s permission for being absent 9?Visit Ganjia Primary School 10?Discuss our interview and exchange ideas 11?Discuss on the interview questions of Mr. Dang Hai-yun 12?Interview in Ganjia Village 13?Interview in Dacai Village 14?Classify written …
6. How did your activities and research for this CyberFair Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?
The activity involves literature, history, geography, computer, art and culture. We have learned many things that are not in the text books.
We break out of the classroom, and learn from the real-life environment and experiences and from various experts in history and culture. Through this research project, we have learnt how to search for information, how to conduct an interview, how to organize information. These abilities will become our life-long assets.
In addition,Many people gave us a lot of support and help. Although due to the busy study, we had to do the work at noon break time and weekends and sometimes we were very tired, we have a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment.
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