|
1. Description of Our Community
Our school located in Neijiang City, Sichuan Province, the finger calligraphy that introduced in the special subject is in Longchang County, Neijiang City. Longchang County was located between Chengdu City and Chongqing City, with Chongqing to the east, Luzhou to the south, Zigong to the west and Neijiang to the north. It covers an area of seven thousand nine hundred and two square kilometers, with a total population of seven hundred and sixty four thousand and has sixteen towns, two countries and one provincial economic and technological development zone. Longchang stone boards belong to major historic and cultural sites under state protection, in Mar, 2005, Longchang County was named “Hometown of Stone Boards in China”. At present, Longchang County was regarded as a cultural town of strategic importance in Neijiang and even South Sichuan. The plenty of history and culture brought a lot of human landscapes. Longchang County has colorful civil arts and deep and profound culture, civil craftsmen like Ma Xiaoping are in large number.
2. Summary of Our Project
Finger calligraphy is a unique art in calligraphy. Using fingers as brushes needs to pay attention to “dipping ink” and “ using fingers”, finger calligraphy is much difficult than writing in pen and brush. At present, there are less than one thousand people who master finger calligraphy and very less people know finger calligraphy. Neijiang City, Sichuan Province is a fair place tends to produce outstanding people, Ma Xiaoping, who lived in Oil Avenue; Longchang County studied finger calligraphy for over twenty years and achieved astonishing results. The purpose that we seven got to know Ma Xiaoping and his finger calligraphy is to let more people know and learn finger calligraphy and let people love Chinese characters, love calligraphy and love our country.
3. Our Computer and Internet Access
A. Percentage of students using the Internet at home:less than 20
B. Number of workstations with Internet access in the classroom:2-3
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):
There are only twenty computers in the computer room in our school with poor function, among which only about ten can work normally. Every time we make websites and processed pictures, the computers always “sing a different tune” to us, as a result, the pictures that originally only take several minutes to process will take half an hour.
4. Problems We Had To Overcome
There are only twenty computers in the computer room in our school with poor function, among which only about ten can work normally. Every time we make websites and processed pictures, the computers always “sing a different tune” to us, as a result, the pictures that originally only take several minutes to process will take half an hour.
5. Our Project Sound Bite
This is the second time we participate in the competition of international websites exposition, but we are still very excited. Last time, our website Confusion Temples in Middle Zi won silver prize, which gave us more energy and pressure.
6. How did your activities and research for this CyberFair Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?
We felt a lot after this competition. After two months’ effort, we collected all the material, though at first the website was quite rough, after several times of revise we finally finished it. When we looked the website we made ourselves, we are very gratified, but what we gratified was not the final work, what really made us felt glad was the whole process which we learnt a lot and understood lots of the process and current present of finger calligraphy, felt Ma Xiaoping’s spirit of pursing art of calligraphy and understood the strength of team work.
| 
