CyberFair Project ID: 7792

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International Schools CyberFair Project Narrative
Title: The study accompaniments are looking forward to the future
Category: 2. Community Groups and Special Populations
URL: http://gs160cy13.edu.17888.com
Bibliography: http://gs160cy13.edu.17888.com/module/a0011/more.php?pkey=79372&classID=15225&intModulePK=A0001_10

School: No.7 Middle shool
    Lanzhou Yuzhong, Gansu, china

5 students, ages 15-16 worked together to complete this CyberFair project on March 4, 2014. They have participated in CyberFair in the following year(s): 2013

Classes and Teachers: Yang Xiaohu

E-Mail contact:

Our School's Web Site: http://gs000160.edu.17888.com

Project Overview

1. Description of Our Community

Our school is located in remote mountainous areas of Western Gansu, due to the backward economy and poverty, many young people are not willing to suffer poverty in the mountain, in order to change the poor life, the parents in village pay more attention to the study of students, so they give up all the things, the people will rent the house near the school to accompany the students to read, this special group called study accompaniments.

2. Summary of Our Project

Our school is located in remote mountainous areas of Western Gansu, due to the backward economy and poverty, many young people are not willing to suffer poverty in the mountain, in order to change the poor life, the parents in village pay more attention to the study of students, so they give up all the things, the people will rent the house near the school to accompany the students to read, this special group called study accompaniments. With the development of economic in recent years, this special group shows that the thought of western rural people has changed, bears the western rural people's yearning, determines the future development trend of western, it is worthy to care.

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:dedicated connection

D. Number of years our classroom has been connected to the Internet:2-3

E. Additional comments concerning your computer and/or Internet access (Optional):

What has been the impact of your project on your community? Now, with the change of rural living patterns, there are more and more study accompaniments, and many difficulties have followed, as a new group in modern life, it decided the change of the rural life. Caring for these people, is not only concerning on the life of left-behind children in rural areas, but also concerning a new life in rural areas. The purpose of this project is to let more people to know their living status, pay attention to the lives of these people, to help them solving some difficulties in life, create a good learning environment for children, to become a new generation which can change the appearance of village truly.

4. Problems We Had To Overcome

1\Progress We followed our plans basically, because the teacher and the students can not go out in the school, it must be approved by the leaders, so it affects our interview and investigation. Later, we reported the situation to the leadership, we collected a lot of data in spare time and weekends, at the same time, we also collected data outside in exercise time through negotiation with our school, and we caught up with the schedule soon. 2\Time The time of overall arrangement is tight, our team has classes in daily time, so there is no a lot of time in study, because as a student, lessons are arranged tightly every day, so the teacher. Our team has to make up for the vacancy of our time in spare time. Once we have time, we come together to discuss how to improve the interview and data collection, there are only two days off in one week, and our interview time is just in winter, the time is also unfavorable.

5. Our Project Sound Bite

Our Project Sound Bite Through this activity, our team members got a lot of experience, after all, there are not too much such opportunities and challenges, and we cherish this opportunity very much. We get together, make concerted efforts, and strive to better. Through this participation, on one hand, we learn many things that never learned on the textbooks, increase my knowledge, broaden our horizons, know the life of left-behind children; on the other hand, we learn the solidarity, improve our accomplishment of life, we are particularly pleased. In a word, in this practice, we learned how to better communicate with the people, collect material, teamwork, how to organize information with computer, deal with photos, edit text, design website, build website and so on.

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

Our Webpage is completed on time, looking back on the course, we are filled with a thousand regrets, and we are also very excited. It is very hard in this activity, and we feel warm with the help of many enthusiastic people. The school principal has been concerned with making progress, to remind us uploading information on time; computer science teacher Yue and teacher Wang provided a lot of help to us, gave us advice and suggestions, put forward many good ideas, optimized our Webpage; study accompaniments around the school gave us warm reception, chatting with us with patience, provided a lot of valuable information for us. Here, the whole members of the project thank them in our heart! Thanks for your assistance to our topic, thank you!

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Project Elements

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

??Software Microsoft Office Word 2003 ???????Images editing Windows Live ????Video Production Windows Live ????Images editing Internet Explorer ??????Search on line Sogou explorer ??????Search information QQ ?????????Chat and communications ??Hardware ??Mobile phone ????????????Contact, taking photo ?????????????Computer ??????????????Collect data, typing and files uploading ????Digital camera ?????Taking photo, shooting

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

In this practice, we all know that the strength of an individual is impossible, only through the division of labor, cooperation, mutual trust, and we can get the final victory. As investigators, the purpose is to improve the recognition and attention of study readers, let the villagers pay more attention to the students, the tomorrow of western belongs to these accompany readers, and the future belongs to the children.

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

Now, with the change of rural living patterns, there are more and more study accompaniments, and many difficulties have followed, as a new group in modern life, it decided the change of the rural life. Caring for these people, is not only concerning on the life of left-behind children in rural areas, but also concerning a new life in rural areas. The purpose of this project is to let more people to know their living status, pay attention to the lives of these people, to help them solving some difficulties in life, create a good learning environment for children, to become a new generation which can change the appearance of village truly.

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

The project activities can be carried out smoothly, first thank our teacher Yang Xiaohu, every day he not only had to teach, but also guide our computer technology, the most important is image processing, website building and production, he also arranged interviews and investigation. We would also like to thank the school leaders and teachers, thanks for the support they give in this special activity, without their help, the thematic activities will be very difficult. They coordinate the head teacher, class teacher, collected data for us in noon and extracurricular time so that we have enough time to have field survey and make the website. Thank the old people, uncle and aunt to accept our interview. They cooperate fully with us so that we can accomplish Webpage quickly. The teacher Yang Xiaohu guided us to build website. Our project can be carried out smoothly with their help. We can complete it successfully. Of course, thanks for every member of our team. With the joint efforts of all, the plan can be carried out smoothly. Thank you for your support and help!

5) Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises (Optional)

During the course of the project, we not only learn some computer technology, but also deeply realize the importance of it. Most of the children are single, grew up in the care of their parents, lack of self-care ability. Now in our village, no culture will be backward, backward will be poor. In order to change the problems, the only way is to study hard. In order to win more time in school, family members cook for us, do chores, this is the only thing they can do, they use their hard work, in exchange for tomorrow's hope, and the hope is placed in this generation. We finally realized that the parents are very hard, we must study hard, make our dreams come true.

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