CyberFair Project ID: 8257

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International Schools CyberFair Project Narrative
Title: MEDINI PONGGAL
Category: 8. Local Music and Art Forms
URL: https://sivasankar53.wixsite.com/ponggalsmkmedini
Bibliography: https://sivasankar53.wixsite.com/ponggalsmkmedini/relax

School: SMK MEDINI
    NUSAJAYA, JOHOR, MALAYSIA

8 students, ages 13-17 worked together to complete this CyberFair project on March 1, 2017. They have participated in CyberFair in the following year(s): 2017

Classes and Teachers: SIVA SANKAR A/L R. MAHALINGAM

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Our School's Web Site: http://https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100005251038111

Project Overview

1. Description of Our Community

Johor Bahru is a town and district located near the middle of the state of Johor, Malaysia. Johor Bahru lies about 110 km north of Johor Bahru, east-southeast of Batu Pahat, west of Mersing and south of Segamat.Johor has 8 districts and this district is one of the only districts that have a sea front. The population of Kluang district exceeds 250,000 residents and the town itself has over 145,000 residents.Thera are there main races Malay, Chiness and Indains. Each of race will have their own faith in religion and tradition

2. Summary of Our Project

The project describe more about ponggal festival celebratede by Indians(Tamil) in Johor Bahru region.Indians(Tamil) are the third minority of race in Johor Bahru.Pongal is a four-day-long harvest festival celebrated by Tamil ethncis in the world. For as long as people have been planting and gathering food, there has been some form of harvest festival. Pongal is one of the most important popular Hindu festivals of the year. This four-day festival of thanksgiving to nature takes its name from the Tamil word meaning 'to boil' and is held in the month of Thai (January-February) during the season when rice and other cereals, sugar-cane, and turmeric (an essential ingredient in Tamil cooking) are harvested.The purpose of this research is to spread cultural and festival belief of Pongal among the people around the world. This also awakens the cultural belief among us. We chosse the title “Harmony of Pongal” as our project. Our project is to explain art,belief,culture and traditional celebration of ponggal in Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

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:1

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):

Internet play such as precious role along with our field to complete our project. It helps us to get additional information to develop our informatic website

4. Problems We Had To Overcome

Our group members face difficult in finishing the project. It is because we got to know about the project very late. So, we had to arrange our procedures reasonable to complete the project before the due date. Besides school programme in class teaching, teacher Siva sankar A/L R. Mahalingam also spent time to guide us to comlete the project. Information that we had collected regarding our project was in Tamil language. We had to translate Tamil language to English with the guidence of our English teachers without changing the actual meaning.

5. Our Project Sound Bite

Cyber fair organisasations give such a wonderful opportunity to students & the school to collaborate with an International School based on project wise. The project also improved students research based skills, with the team participating at the global level.

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

Certain subjects in our school curriculum are related to our tradition and culture. The topics give emphasize on the need to preserve the uniqueness of the culture. Pongal Festival is a vast cultural event celebrated by Malaysian Indians. The main purpose of this research is to get the festival known to people around the world. Thus, the project is able to preserve the culture and traditions of the indian community.

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Project Elements

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

Laptops. We used to surf information regarding pongal festival, edit photos and videos and also creating the web page by wix.com tools. Adobe Photoshop used to edit the pictures which was taken during pongal festival celebration. Cyberlink Power Diretor is a flexible video editing sofware solution. If is offering unique combinations of high tend performances and advance video editing which enable us to edit the video of pongal celebration. Social NetworK. Facebook as social networking helps to promote our project to entire world.

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

Team members of the project played a few roles to represent our local communities and the ambassadors to introduce the audience to the world about the pongal festivals. Team members acted as spokespersons for our project online by creating our website and the project related pass on social networking site. Team members act as ambassadors and spoke persons in persons by presenting our project through several presentations and survey within different age groups.

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

The project has already started to give impact on regenerating the lost charm of pongal festival which had proved to be a successful one. Our project also gives big impact in to promoting our culture and traditions of celebrating pongal by performing workshops at school level.

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

Local members like parents, school students club, and school parents teacher association contributed ideas and volunteers to review our project. They aso give some opinion to improve the project qualities.

5) Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises (Optional)

The intersting discoveries we had learn from this project is the finding of data.The data is very usefull for our school organisasition to organise different activities during pongal celebration at school level. Involvement of community give project team members learn lot regaridng tradition and culture of indian communities.

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