CyberFair Project ID: 8211

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International Schools CyberFair Project Narrative
Title: Yuntai Mountain Quest
Category: 6. Historical Landmarks
URL: http://www.yellowsheepriver.com/~sc000035/2017/
Bibliography: http://www.yellowsheepriver.com/~sc000035/2017/Ez-cankao.html

School: Cangxi laboratory middle school
    Guangyuan, Sichuan, China

4 students, ages 15-17 worked together to complete this CyberFair project on March 1, 2017. They have participated in CyberFair in the following year(s): 2011,2012,2014,2015,2016

Classes and Teachers: Tao siquan,Liao ronghai,

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Our School's Web Site: http://

Project Overview

1. Description of Our Community

Cangxi County is located at the north of Sichuang Basin, the southern foothill of Qin-Ba Mountain Range, the southern end of Jialinjiang Rive in Guangyuan City, called “the key of Qinglong ” and “protective screen of north Sichuang” in ancient time, named after Cangxi valley. Cangxi County has the history of 1700 years since county was set up in the Taikan year of Western Jin Dynasty,and it is usually called 'the Wonderful County of Northern Sichuan'. Cangxi County is east to Enyang in Bazhong City, west to Jiange, south to Langzhong, north to Shaohua and Wangcang. By 2014, County area covers 2330 square kilometers, with jurisdiction over 24 towns, 15 villages, a population of 790.006, there lived Han,Qiang,Yi,Zang,Miao, Hui and Dong people.

2. Summary of Our Project

Through “Yuntai mountain Quest” thematic activities, make us more in-depth understanding Cangxi Taoist culture, through the research of the plan, we feel the Cangxi Taoist history, and famous Yuntaiguan is a city with a long history. From the ancient times to the present, experienced numerous exposures to wind and rain, from its exquisite carving to present, only leaving its blurred surface, but the people of each generation are not neglect it, they still protect it carefully, the famous Yuntaiguan cannot do without the efforts of every generation of people. There are intact non cultural intangible heritage here, that is our efforts; there are incomplete non material culture heritage, without our protection, it can not retain now.

3. Our Computer and Internet Access

A. Percentage of students using the Internet at home:21-50%

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:more than 6

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

Our school has a WestChinaStory studio, and there is 10M bandwidth network, that can be used on extracurricular activities class every afternoon, or Wednesday night, Sunday night.

4. Problems We Had To Overcome

Difficulty in time: When webpage contest started as the MID-TERM approached, the students were really going at their studies, but four of us had to spend a lot of time to prepare for contest. Thanked to teacher Tao to help us communicate with teachers of various subjects, who accepted that we were supposed to be excellent as soon as we got contest done. We never have been Yuntai Mountain before, in this short span of 10 more days, we field visited to Yuntai, depth interviews were adopted to gather data, and accessed to an enormous amount of information, finally, we sorted through a set of integral materials. Difficulties in interview: We had to take advantage of after-class time to conduct interviews that was fairly far away from school, so we said thanks to teacher Tao to take us to interview many times, and we got enough material. Technical difficulties: Most of our teammates were novices in making web pages, so it was quite frustration for us to lay out the webpage. Thanks to teacher Liao, she gave step-by-step directions for teaching us to make webpage, to edit image with Photoshop. In the process of the late creation, they were always our strong technical support until we finally completed the task.

5. Our Project Sound Bite

Now Yuntaiguan can not remain without our protection, we should keep the past scenarios so that the name of Yuntaiguan will never leave our life, let it enrich our life. The flowers and trees in Yuntaiguan need to be respected and cared, two bodhi trees in Yuntaiguan attaches countless wishes and marriage. Because the people believe it, so they give it infinite love and confidence. Bodhi tree also means that the people who have aspirations can believe. The red ropes are tied in a tree, also let us know its history, not only there are the things we can see, but also there are other stories we do not know.

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

Our school offered “WestChinaStory” as an elective, available to all students. This is a credit course once a week regimen. By practical course, it helped to develop student’s power of observation and practical operation. It offered a broad platform for students for making the curriculum modes diversified.

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Project Elements

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

Computer, digital camera, DV

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

Through our practical investigation and exploration, let more people around us know more about our traditional cultures. Most people, especially most of the classmates, don’t know our local cultures. Hope that they understand traditional culture and learn the ancients’ studious spirit.

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

Many people didn’t know about the development of Taoist cultures in our Cangxi. We educated them about it by our project website.

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

We went to Yuntai Mountain many times under the leadership of the teacher, and learn from Cangxi County Bureau of Religious Affairs. We collected a lot of first-hand materials under local administrators helps. They told us about history stories about Yuntai Mountain. We got know about Zhuangyuan cultures by school talks.

5) Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises (Optional)

In material collection teacher took us to perform field research, it helped us to improve our ability and train our ability to explore knowledge, making us to try or learn something new, and our rural children become more assertive and self-reliant.

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