Project Elements
A. Combine our research activities of our project with the needs of our school teaching program
1. Be active to learn, understand, and take actions to care for our school communities and environment.
2. Learn about the global environmental issues and the effects toward the human society and know some recent related solutions.
3. Learn how to express our opinions, share our experiences, and respect different perspectives. Also, it’s a good chance to take part in extracurricular activities outside the school and to make sure we are responsible for our project.
4. Career planning and lifelong learning: At first, we need to make plans, make schedules for future works, arrange interviews, and search for information, resources, and assistance.
5. Cultural learning and international understanding: We explore the real situations of the water conservation at mudstone area and compare the result with other coutries.
6. Active searching and researchingL We make a project and find out problems by ourselves, and we use our knowledge and skills to recode and organize our presentation to finish the project.
B. Using information techonology to finish our project
1.Using computers, notebooks, and iPad: Search on the net, collect and organize our files, and make a website for our project
2. The Internet and the Social Networks: Search and transport the data, and communicate with our teammates, parents, and local residents to have discussions, interaction, and sharing files.
3. Digital video, camera, audio recorder, single beam projector: Photography, videography and record of our events, projector for presentation
4. Computers Softwares:
(1) Document Processing: Word、PowerPoint
(2) Image Processing: PhotoCap
(3) Digital Video/Audio Processing: Wink
(4) Web authoring: Dreamweaver
Digital video and camera record of our events. Document Processing: Word、PowerPoint In discussions with the file sharing community website
C. How do your participantats at your communities offer assisitance and take it as their duties to help you finish your project?
1. During the project, supports from children’s parents motivate us most to have them stay beside to help arrange outdoor interviews, organize the recordings, solve the traffic problems, and collect alll the related information.
2. The local guide Aunt Zhang, a Project Manager of Longxing Community, did a lot of favor. And we also had a nice talk with the famous local master of Taiwaness Poetry. We really deeply appreciated the local residents had assisted us with all efforts.
3. The loca community officers and residents gave us timely help and solved our problems.
D. How to play a role as an “ambassador” through the interactions between persons and your group?
1. With the guide of Mudstone area, we had the chance to watch the demonstration of the watershed which had won the prize of Eco-Engineering area in 2003. We hoped to spread the information to the public through the presentation of webpages.
2. By the means of local field investigations and surveys, we would like to make our communitiy understand our project and get further information about revegetation, even to discuss how water and soil conservation affect the local sightseeing.
3. Encourage parents to participate the project together with children and to remind them to watch other webpages from diiferent countries in this cyberfair.
4. Form a team of school docents, make a schedule of presenting the project result to other classes to let them understand the importance of water and soil conservation.
5. Provide the web link on the school webpages to students, parents, and the public.
Form a team of school docents, make a schedule of presenting the project result to other classes to let them understand the importance of water and soil conservation.
E. Knowing about Intellectual Property Right
1. We need to understand that if every data we used has the intellectual property right. As a result, our instructor Chiu-Huan Hsu showed us a advocacy video to know about that we must be catious to use everything on the Internet. In addition to asking for authors’ agreement, we still have to mark the name, to use noncommercially, to be forbidden to do any revise, and to share out in the same way.
2. We collected a lot of information from the webpages of Tourism Bureau of Tainan City Government, editted our photos by ourselves, and noted our references. Moreover, we enclosed the source of the materials on every pictures we scanned from the books and paper just in order to respect the intellectual property right. Indeed, we spontaneously made a lot of notes, recording, and organized files by ourselves, includiung making a field investigation, interviews, reports, the routes and maps of the mudstone area.
3. Thanks to the offer of the Facebook site of Longxing Community, we could be able to collect and show few precious pictures of local environment on our webpages.
F.The Influence and the Impact of doing this project:
1.We saw the unachivable endeaver that the local residents had used the method of eco-engineering to revegetate the mudstone area to manage the resources of sightseeing and maintain the precious greenland on this bald soils.
2. The building of the Neopu Mudstone Area Soil and Water Conservation Park has become not only a wonderful site for school field trips and tourists visiting but also a blessed land for motivating the local residents to gather together, to envolve in the training of guidence and manage the area, and to participate in the courses of rural revival.
3. Owing to the long procedure for us to understand the method of eco-engineering, we simplify the explanation of our presentation to the firsr grade stduents at our school. In this way, it's easy for them to understand the meaning of environmental protection and learn the spirit of overcoming the environmental problems and the deep love for the land.
G. Discoveries, Lessons, and Amazement:
1. Before joining in this project, we knew nothing about Cyber Fair, not even to think about how to make a complete project. With time passing and several times of meeting, discussions, and interviews did make us penetrate deeply into that learning can be so fun in diversity ways. On the progress, we did encounter so many unknown problems, feel a lot of frustration, and try to balance the burdens between school works, personal affairs, and this project. Getting overcome the difficulties absolutely helped us learned a lot, including having chances to get along with different people, and finding our own specialties and potential.
2. The courses of exploring and investigation, which took us a long period of time, usually required us to find out our resolutions by ourselves and to cooperate with our groups to finish our tasks. During this time, our instructors and parents always accompanied us to experience everything, guide us to use our talents, motivate us to do what we thought to be impossible, and get close to our groups. We all felt so wonderful to work this project with groups.
3. In these few months, we saw the story of the great cooperation between the government and the local community which made a bad land into a blessed land. Every time we made a field investigation, we felt touched by the transformation of Longxing Community whose residents made endeavors to change the environmental situations, to do water and soil conservation to protect their homes, and to manage their mudstone area to develop the industry of sightseeing. What they did to this land is to make the desolate soil into a green oasis and attract wild animals to live here. It’s really impressive and affecting.
