Oral Interviews

We have visited the local people and came to understand the regional oral history better.

Internet

We searched for related websites on the Internet and communicated with many net users.

DC, DV, Graphics capture card

We took pictures, recorded the voices and images of the interviewees during our interview. Then, we converted the images into VCD and voice recordings into MP3.

Scanner and Printer

We processed the images with scanners and had the information printed out for circulation with printers.

Phone & Fax

We communicated with the interviewees be phone and fax.

Flash Drive and CD-RW

We stored the information on these media for the use on PCs with no network connection.

Computer Software

NAMO, DreamWeaver, PhotoShop, Cute ftp, Office2003, etc.

When we decided the date for conducting interview, our teachers would give us a briefing on the guidelines and skills for a successful interview. In addition, they also taught us how to communicate with people effectively. The teachers were really nice and told us everything we needed to know in detail! During the interviews, we recorded what the interviewees said when we asked them questions. In addition, we also took pictures of the interviews. When we played these roles, we worried if the interviewees did not like us Fortunately, they explained to us with patience and in details. We would like to give them our greatest thanks! After explaining their answers, we presented them with some souvenirs with great respect. Of course, we thanked them heartily!

The interviewees came from all walks of life, such as teachers, parents, neighbors, local people, elders, and local institutions (Community Development Association); they offered us much information. It made the contents of the webpages rich and solid.

SA-ZI Weaving Workshop

Tadao Beilin Workshop for Woodcarving, Weird Stone, and Special Wood

Many parents are concerned about the education at school very much; therefore, they care about the teachers’ professional abilities and their teaching quality. We participate in this project just to show people that many of our teachers have furthered their studies in different areas, and their teaching plans and impacts on teaching after their studying further. Through the students taught by these teachers, we hope people understand what kind of changes there are regarding the students’ learning in class. From our website, people can understand the relations between our teachers’ research and teaching. In addition, we hope that they also can obtain first hand materials on the teaching conditions in our school and the interactions between the teachers and the students.

All the materials in this project were gathered and compiled by local teachers and students through their interviews. Therefore, during the execution of this project, our little reporters traveled around the tribe; it made our classes more diverse and meaningful.

In addition, the people we came into direct contact with were not limited to the people at the schools. We interviewed people at various levels in different counties and cities. Moreover, the students and parents that did not participate in project visited our website as well. They always visited us in the computer lab and gave us much encouragement.

(1)Mr. Huang Te-Cheng, the head teacher of Hong Ye Elementary School gives us the greatest    support and help.
(2)The Hope Agent Development Association of Republic of China gives us the greatest support and backup.
(3)We would like to thank Mr. Lin Jung-hui, the Director of the Community Development Association for his great interrelationship that helped us save much time.
(4)We would also like to thank all the people that have helped us at Hong Ye Village: Mr. Chen Lin Tsung-yi, Mr. Lan Wen-lung, the Department Head, Miss Hsu Yu-yen, Mr. Hung Chin-yao, Mr. Yeh Chiu-ku, the Village Head, Mr. Chuan Kuo-chang, Mr. Yang Chen-sheng, etc.
(5)The members from Persian Cat Society, National Hualien Teachers College – Thank you for accompanying us and guiding us.

Last but not least, we would like to thank The Hope Agent Development Association of Republic of China for giving us help, rendering our project finished smoothly. In this project, the Hope Agent provided us with plenty of resources. Many times, when we encountered difficulties, they extended their helping hands on time. In addition, they donated 6 secondhand computers and a set of baseball bats. The some 10 brothers and sisters, such as Liao Ping-kuei, etc from the Persian Cat Society, National Hualien Teachers College sacrificed most of their weekends to give us valuable suggestions in finishing our project. We would like to give all of the people that have helped us our greatest gratitude.

The Persian Cat Society, Hualien University of Education

In fact, at the time when we joined this project, our teachers told us what intellectual property rights were. In addition, they taught us to respect people’s intellectual property rights as well. Without permission from the rights holders, we should not copy, quote, etc of software, hardware, webpages, etc in any means. Otherwise, it is regarded as privacy or theft! Of course, we will be persecuted as well. Therefore, we will not do anything to harm people as well as ourselves.

We learned how to quote people’s information properly. We must supply the authors’ names and sources at the bottom of the quotations in order to allow the browsers to know that the information is not the fruits of our endeavor but other peoples’ efforts.

We reaped a lot by participating in the Taiwan Schools Cyberfair 2006. In the research process, there were amazements and discoveries. We had learned the following:
☆Discovery: The migration of the Truku Tribe and our cultural treasures allowed us to have a deeper understanding of our tribal culture. In addition, we learned to value them highly and to be proud of our cultures.
☆Lessons: As the old saying goes, “Two heads are better than one.” As we had seven people on the team, we should accomplish our tasks better. However, if we could not split up the jobs among us and do sub-projects in accordance with our specialties, we could hardly finish our assignment. In addition, if we could not discuss the problems rationally when we came to any difficulties, we were just a sheet of loose sand, not able to accomplish anything! Therefore, from this project, we learned that “if we worked together, we could accomplish incredible results.”

☆Amazement: “Computers are so versatile!” In the past, we thought computers were for video games and online chat rooms only. We did not expect computers to accomplish so many things in this project. What an important role the computer played in this project. From writings and graphics, which were rather static, to images and sound, which were rather dynamic, the computer helped us finish our jobs flexibly. We learned something really amazing!

We had very deep impressions on many things in this project, regardless whether interviews, word and data processing, refining of our skills in data collection, etc. Especially, when we interviewed the famous people or were interviewed by people, we felt much impressed. All these undertakings will leave us with many inerasable memories.