School: school
    Wuwei city, Gansu province, China

6 students, ages 13-14 worked together to complete this CyberFair project on March 16, 2010. They have participated in CyberFair in the following year(s): 2007,2008,2009

Classes and Teachers: Yan Changrong,Zhu Zhaonian

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Our School's Web Site: http://gs000061.edu.17888.com

1. Description of Our Community

Our region is Xiama, which is part of Huarui Tibetan region. This area includes Xi Da Tan of Tianzhu County, Duoshi villige, Zhuaxi Longxiu Village, Anyuan Town, Do Da Tan, etc. Our research emphasizes on Xi Da Tan.

2. Summary of Our Project

In the summer of 2006, staff of EDEN Foundation came to our school accidently. However, after this meeting, EDEN Foundation became closely connected to our school and helped our school’s development. Since summer of 2007, EDEN Foundation has organized volunteering teaching for our school, three years in row, and the number of volunteers is more than 240. EDEN Foundation also helped us with material donations. Our website is to record their work and our gratitude.

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:1

C. Connection speed used in the classroom:not sure

D. Number of years our classroom has been connected to the Internet:4-6

4. Problems We Had To Overcome

1.lack of experience. 2.lack of technique support. 3.lack of time

5. Our Project Sound Bite

As long as you put your heart into your work, you’ll succeed.

6. How did your activities and research for this CyberFair Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?

• Our research can help us to remember every loving journey EDEN Foundation made to Da Xi Tan and to record our school’s story with EDEN as a historical document. On the other hand, it will help students and teachers in our school to know EDEN better and to understand the greatness of the love across Taiwan Strait. Our research can also be seen as a development of school course. The research result can be content of our school’s course. • Our monographic research plan leads us to explore our school’s cultural resources which we could use to cultivate students and influence society.

1) What information tools & technologies did you used to complete your CyberFair project?

Tools: phone, digital camera, scanner, computer, books, survey, field interview.

2) In what ways did you act as "ambassadors" and spokespersons for your CyberFair project both on-line and in person.

• As long as they can go over our website, foreign friends will gain new understandings of my hometown. In their eyes, Da Xi Tan won’t be a remote, isolated, pretty village any more. Instead, Da Xi Tan is a new countryside with its strong steps to change its poverty. • Local people from different fields gave us lots of support. They admired our spirit to communicate with outside. They want to see that through our efforts our hometown can become a better place.

3) What has been the impact of your project on your community?

• Local people from different fields gave us lots of support. They admired our spirit to communicate with outside. They want to see that through our efforts our hometown can become a better place. • There are students from Nankai University, Northwest Normal University, Gansu Ethnic Normal College who were volunteering teachers in our school. And other friends paid attention to our school for a long time. They also introduced our website to their friends. Through our website, they know more about Xiama Culture and want to visit Xiama Region more.

4) How did your project involve other members of your community as helpers and volunteers?

In the process of our research, we helped local villagers to take pictures and copy materials. And we also helped new students in our school to know more about the previous communication activities.