CyberFair Project ID: 8408

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International Schools CyberFair Project Narrative
Title: The museum of Southern Frontier, Ningxia
Category: 5. Local Attractions (Natural and Man-Made)
URL: http://www.yellowsheepriver.com/~nx000030/2018/
Bibliography: http://www.yellowsheepriver.com/~nx000030/2018/index.html

School: Taole middle school,Shizuishan, Ningxia
    Shizuishan, Ningxia Hui autonomous region, China

3 students, ages 15-17 worked together to complete this CyberFair project on March 6, 2018. They have participated in CyberFair in the following year(s): 2013,2014

Classes and Teachers: Wu jiaying/Taole middle school Information technology group

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Our School's Web Site: http://www.szsedu.gov.cn/html/41ed6f88-00a2-4c29-a698-f70c14e3d127/index.html

Project Overview

1. Description of Our Community

Taole is a little-known western town of China that rural life is always leisurely and comfortable. People here make a living by farming, they love this piece of land and love their mother river, Yellow River so much. By searching internet and visit, we got know that The Museum of Southern Frontier did not set up a web site as it opened. It is less of an important platform for spreading our homeland in the rocketing development of our internet. So we conferred with teacher to help museum with advertisement, to promote our homeland tourism business.

2. Summary of Our Project

In IT course, we made the most of times to ask teacher about the knowledge of webpage making. We asked teacher the way to write transcript after interview and materials collection when we had Chinese lesson. Under the instruction of teacher, all content correlating with websites are finished.

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:1

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):

School has the LAN system by ADSL connection. Currently, our school has 142 computers and provides us with an adequate e-learning environment. We have 3 well-equipped computer labs available for our use.

4. Problems We Had To Overcome

(1) Collecting materials is not easy. Because museum of Southern Frontier is a new museum, we got few resources from internet. So we have to visit and interview on spot. (2) Little study recourses. We need using computer during the whole studying, but computer labs are available for a limited number of hours each week, and we are live on campus. So the rate of progress is very slow. (3) Security issues. There is a certain distance from school to museum. Parents and teachers worried about our safety when we were out of school. So we were cutting out trips to museum, to collect as much useful information as we can every time. 4) Our time is limited. We all have classes during the day, there are no more time to communicate with instructor. So our work did not go well.

5. Our Project Sound Bite

Thank many teachers, students and museum’s staffs’ help and support. By interview on spot, not only we learned how to communicate with people, but we got know a lot of information about the changes of Pingluo County, and further enhance the ability of social practice. Thanks to this research project, our computer operation skill is improving. In the whole process of research project, we found that nothing is impossible for a willing heart.

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

Further enhance the ability of social practice. Thanks to this research project, our computer operation skill is improving. In IT course, we made the most of times to ask teacher about the knowledge of webpage making. We asked teacher the way to write transcript after interview and materials collection when we had Chinese lesson. Under the instruction of teacher, all content correlating with websites are finished. During the research project, many people talking with us did not know the museum was once an open museum as they passed by bus, they thought that this magnificent building is a landmark. By reading our website, more and more people who are not familiar with Pingluo County started to know this small town in the northwest of China. They found this is a good place to visit with their family on weekend. Our project has the support of many teachers and students. We also got our taste of the beautiful of homeland, and love this piece of land more.

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Project Elements

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

Equipments: digital camera,digital video, computer, mobile phone, portable hard disk Software: dreamweaver 8,fireworks 8,word,Internet Explorer.

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

The whole process from deciding research topic to finishing webpage, we visited the museum of Southern Frontier, where we interviewed museum curator and staff, we told them about our project, they were very interested in it and their support and positiveness for us. They also hope that this project website we made would introduce northwest China, the beautiful homeland, and the new museum.

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

During the research project, many people talking with us did not know the museum was once an open museum as they passed by bus, they thought that this magnificent building is a landmark. By reading our website, more and more people who are not familiar with Pingluo County started to know this small town in the northwest of China. They found this is a good place to visit with their family on weekend. Our project has the support of many teachers and students. We also got our taste of the beautiful of homeland, and love this piece of land more.

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

The museum of Southern Frontier is neither far nor close to our school, about five or six kilometers. How shall we go there? We can't rest easy until we heard that teacher drive us. And so we have enough time to tour of museum, including looking at the scenery and Yellow River Bridge. A warm reception from museum curator and explanations made by narrator got us a great support on materials collecting. We are grateful.

5) Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises (Optional)

After deciding the research topic, we planned the website layout as we collected materials. We thought we would apply what we have learned on IT lesson to making webpage, which could enhance our knowledge in the study. Meanwhile, we can feel the significance of teamwork. We didn't prepare well enough for visits and webpage making. It severely impacted the expression of site topics. It was our first cooperation, everyone’s difference idea cannot avoid disputes. Thanks to teacher came to resolved in time, which could benefit us.

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