The Exclamation Mark of Life-John

Project Narrative

• The Relevant Data
• Project Overview
• Project Elements
• Contribution
• Bibliography

John's Show

• John's Drumming Show

How did your activities and research for this International Schools CyberFair project support content standards, required coursework and curriculum requirements?

From collecting the information, drafting the questions of the interview, composing the diary and progress report, to interviewing the people in our community and the integration of our contents of the website, all promote our ability of analyzing, generalizing, arranging and composition.

Via interviewing some of the community’s people, we started to have cognition about our community and have interest of giving care to the handicapped people in the community, which helps us build up our feelings to our community.

Through the WWW, computer, interview recording, video recording, taking pictures with a digital camera, the skills of making our website...etc, it cultivated our ability of the using the internet technology.

Through holding the disability experiencing camp, we experienced the inconvenience of a being handicapped; in order to, cultivate their of life, is it train same heart to use, study how to show your care to people.

Via observing John's pottery works, we found out the maker's intention and clever thought, and learned how appreciate the beauty of art.

From the performance of the Kiwi Orchestra, we realized the meaning of the life and value of existing, and then train our respect of our own lives.

Through the research, we learned how to divide the work and cooperate, communicate to coordinate, support and encourage each other to power up and using the power of the group to reach the goal.

What information tools & technologies did you use to complete your CyberFair project?

During the research, we used the these equipments:

Equipment name	Use of the equipments
Telephone	Used of getting in touch with other members.
Computer	Used for typing the documents, making the website, hacking the pictures, making the lesson examples and conveying the data.
DV	Used to record the interview’s video.
Digital camera	Used to shoot pictures of the interview
Traditional camera	Used to shoot the pictures auxiliary
Scanner	Used to scan the pictures and photograph
Recording pen	Used to record the interview
Recorder	Used to record the interview auxiliary
Microphone	Used to record the interview auxiliary
Printer	Used to export our data
Batteries	Used to support the equipments that need batteries
Memory card, USB driver	Used to store and back up the data
Computer software:		Use
Macromedia Dreamweaver		Used to manage and make the website
Macromedia Flash		Used to make animation
Ulead PhotoImpact, Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro		Used to dealt with the pictures
ACDSee		Used to manage the pictures
Microsoft PowerPoint		Used to make reports
Microsoft Word		Used to type down our documents
Internet Explorer		Used to explore websites, search for information, uploading files and downloading files
Open Webmail		Used to communicate with the team members and the Open Webmail’s Webdisk.

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

In order to finish our project, interviewing people in our community is unavoidable. We will always ask them if they are willing to get interviewed by telephone in advance, then agree on the time and place to interview again, next we need to do lots of assignments and rehearsal, expecting that we can play the role of ' the ambassador ' of the community.

We had thought that we won’t have any influence in our community at first, but some of the teachers in our school went to John’s house to learn how to play drums after hearing John’s story. Some parents also insisted to send their kids to John to learn drums after learning John’s story, expecting their children to learn John’s spirit of the deep love for life and the creating of self- spirit; Some teachers of the fifth and sixth grade recommends the students in the class to read the reports about John and incorporate it into the lessons, for the students to understand the miracle of life

We hope more fervently we can let the world know about John’s story by attending the Cyberfair, let the people in the whole world applause for our brave warrior of life together!

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

The Impact on the students of our school

From watching and admire the Kiwi Orchestra's performance, visiting the John, to the experience of holding the disability camp, we deeply understood the suffering and the inconvenience of the handicapped people’s lives, and brought us heavily impact in our hearts; Actually, we are already blessed that we can live with a healthy body.

Because John has passed the struggle between life and death three times and made him a multiple handicapped people. Even though, he still faced his sicknesses bravely and lighted up his will to fight with sickness optimistically; he went to schools, prisons to share his story of life, encouraging everybody.

We shall cherish and be satisfied with present situation even more, cherish our own lives deeply and show our care to the people and things beside us.

The Impact on our community

Instead of the problems of getting along with the society, the media often have wrong reports or the public has a misunderstanding on the handicapped people, and caused lots of stereo types. Therefore, we hope that we can let the public understand the handicapped people more through our website, and then make the government pay attention to the institution of the non-handicapped facilities, show our respect to the handicapped people and make the society warmer and more fragrant.

Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises

Present John, still winning the torment from suffering of illness deeply, with the degradating day by day of body function, life every little bit is in the loss, but being positive and optimistic, he engaged in public activity fall after the people.

His life is like a fainting light, though without beautiful rays, he still strive on bursting his fainting light, expecting to illuminate the dark and bring people hope.At the back, who helped John disseminate happiness and love is his old parents. John's spirit touches people; and the love of John’s parents, moves people even more.

Seeing John smiling resplendently, listening to John’s skillful drumming, admiring John’s lively pottery, and reading John’s touching story, we will understand deeply, what’s called “finding the exclamation mark of life in the calling of love”.

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