【 Research Plan Elements 】



一、Please how will your Thematic Research Plan meets with the goal and purpose of Taiwan Cyber Fairs:

The 9-Year-Through Education System stress on nurturing students with humanity sense, integrating and consolidating abilities, democratic culture, local and international visions, as well as lifetime learning drive. We take Master Huang Chun-Ming and Huang Ta Yu Kids Troupe as the topics of our research is to providing students with the portable abilities through collection and production of thematic data. The abilities include setting up plan, collecting data and material, interview, questionnaire survey and web page production. From our daily teaching, we have found that students are all having the passion in search, but they sometimes are lack of guidance to lead them the way, the direction or the theme.

In addition to display the results of research, we hope that in the process of research, we hope that the students will appreciate Literature, Drama as well as acquiring the skill in research. Hence, we will provide opportunities as much as possible to allow students to initiatively search for data and materials, integrating and consolidating collected data and materials, and, appreciate the beauty of folk literature and kid drama, and finally, through the link to life and culture, they would have care about the physical and mental environments.

In the extension of effect of research, by class thematic report, drama experience, watching the performance of kid troupe and seminars with students, we provide school with local program with an opportunity of establishing own curriculum. Also, the research mode may be used as reference for similar thematic instruction of the school.



二、Please explain what are the technologies you have employed to complete your thematic research plan?

We employed the following information technologies in collecting the data/material we need and for reproduction:

 
Name of Technology
Uses
Telephone
Maintaining contact with interviewed and team members.
Recording Pen
For audio recording in interview
DV
Recording interview and tour
Digital Camera
Photographing and reproducing of data/ graph
Scanner
Scanning photos from book and old photos
USB
Back-Up Data / materials
TV
Inspecting the effects of video taping
Computer
Producing web pages, accessing data/ materials and check for data on-line 7 burn-in CD
Portable Computer
Producing web pages, accessing data/ materials and check for data on-line
Internet
Searching for data and materials through internet
Computer Software
Ulead Photo Impact 8
Microsoft Frontpage
Internet Explorer
Microsoft Word 2000(XP)
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX
Macromedia Flash MX
CuteFTP4.0Windows
Movie Maker
Microsoft PowerPoint
Medi@show非常好色
Nero Start Smart




三、The students of your team in the Thematic Research Plan represent the folk communities, like ambassadors and are responsible to present the local features to the audience in the whole world. Please explain in which way, through on-line, individual or team contact you plan to play the role of “Ambassador?
 
 

In this research, we intend to conduct in the way of interview and site recording. We will use telephone to make reservation and we will liaise with interviewed through e-mail. In the process of interviewing and recording the campus tour of Huang Ta Yu Kids Troupe, we will use every opportunity to know teachers, students and parents of other school and to promote our research plan.

In the school, in addition to the school publication, we use the flexible hours to apply cross-field thematic learning, joining Chinese Language, Society and General Program to have students of the class to submit report on “Reading Huang Chun-Ming” as well as drama experience. For teachers, we have a workshop to explain the contents of our research.

In advertisement outside the school, in addition to the funding subsidies of Creativity Program of Ministry of Education as well as providing linkage on the web pages of Creativity Program, a “Reading 100” project is implemented to join Elementary and Junior High Schools together, inviting students to read the works of Master. The school also printed Inserts of the School winning Cyber Fairs award to promote our research plan. We use also the Bill Board functions of Cyber Fairs to recommend our thematic report to the schools attended the competition and invite them to appreciate the performance of Huang Ta Yu Kids Troupe.

Presently, we have obtained the support of the School and will translate the Web Pages into English and to attend International Cyber Fairs competitions. We want to offer the beautiful stories occurred in Yilan will to many more people in the world.

四、What effects and / or impacts has your thematic research plan resulted on you? 
 

Master Huang Chun-Ming told us –“As long as kid is offered with opportunity, every kid can play.” We were half-convinced only, but we took this opportunity to group the class each with a story for children written by Huang Chun- Ming for them to write scripts, rehearsal, making the props independently and freely.

Other than rehearse attentively, they made their properties each single pieces, from sewing a piece of small wing to making a whole scarecrow. Although they were afraid that they might not perform well enough, yet when they were on stage, they showed what they understood about the story, and, with their own creation. This surprised me very much. After this performance, we got the chance of checking the children again and change my perception of the creativity and toughness of the children.

五、IPR and Legend of Quotation 
 

Other than those written by the team members, all the texts quoted (including books, journals and online) are indicated with the sources of them in the APA Format as the teachers told us. The references of picture are all requested for approval and granted by e-mailing the copyright holders. During the process of research, we needed to quote data / materials of many people, but do not have full understanding of IPR. It was quite often that we found the pictures/ graphs we needed but we could not just use it, but we need to communicate with right holders formally, to see if we are quoting / referring properly. It is very troublesome, frankly, but our teachers told us that this is a respect to the original author. We would hope the same if our web page were quoted by someone sometime.

六、Findings, lessons and surprises?
 

We found during interviewing Huang Ta-Yu Kids Troup, we found that the members covered students of elementary school, junior high, housewives, retired teachers and farmers. They were not having formal training, but the professionalism is no less than the professional actors. We wonder why they came to the play. Some of them were because the parents need to pick up children who joined the troupe and were attracted and joined.

The Troupe is under limited budget, but some of the members devoted their time and their money to assist the troupe to perform best possible play for those who have no chance of watching the stage play of children. With the unselfish devotion of Master Huang Chun-Ming and Huang Ta Yu Kids Troupe, we have the chance of watching the show “ Junior Li is not a Liar” This is a wonderful and inspiring play. Just like the definition of Kid’s Drama by Master Huang Chun-Ming— “Kid’s Drama is a wonderful seed, planted in the heart of children and it will blossom later…” (Quoted from blog of Ping.) We hope that our web page will lead many other people to feel the charm of Kid’s Drama and Master Huang Chun-Ming to enrich our hope for the future
 

   
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