Project Elements

This project is designed in accordance with Grade 1-9 Curriculum administered by the Ministry of Education.

Grade 1-9 Curriculum is to involve all aspects of daily life that correspond to the students' mental and physical development and aim at developing core competences which a modern citizen should possess. Such core competences may be categorized as follows: Such as expression, communication, and sharing that we learn by visiting NTSO; utilization of technology and information, which we learn how to collect data, and make use of such information for the purpose of enhancing learning efficiency. We will achieve such ideals through the promotion of educational learning activities which emphasize comprehensiveness in Grade 1-9 Curriculum.

Information tools & technologies we use to complete our project

How can you play the role of the Cyber Fair project ambassador?

In the process of doing this project, we knew children orchestra much more including the history, the way of grouping members, musical instruments, and the difficulty of practicing. We want more people to get to know this orchestra with magical characteristic.

What kind of the impact and effect
does the project influence your community?

There are many characteristic clubs in our school and the efforts of the instructors and club members are touching. Because of the project, we held three school concerts for teachers and students who all showing their enthusiasm. In each concert, we performed 2 to 3 pieces and invited the concertmasters to introduce their instruments. By using questionnaire, everyone understood more about children orchestra and how to enjoy the music. They also realized that we spent lots of time on training and practicing. By performing in the community concert, our neighborhood got to know Ping He Children Orchestra again.

Using questionnaire to figure out the feedbacks of the concerts	To introduce the Timpany

 

How others help your project?

1. Interview with Mr. Wang, Ching and Ms. Lin, Chia-Yu

We would like to thank Mr. Wang and Ms. Lin for sparing their precious time to receive our interview in their busy working hours. We learned a lot from them about the history of children's orchestra.

2. Visit NTSO

We want to thank teachers for assisting to solve the problem of transportation from school to NTSO. And we also want to thank Ms. Chang, narrator of NTSO, for narrating kinds of musical instruments in details and letting us to touch and play many high quality instruments. The visit to NTSO really widened our horizons.

3. Film in PTS

We would like to thank principal, teachers, dancing class and hockey team for sparing time to help and assist to shoot the film. We would also like to thank the PST for their well prepared transportation and shooting. We were deeply grateful for the help moving heavy instruments and support from teachers and parents.

4. Christmas Eve music concert

Many thanks for the hard work of children orchestra members and the instructor. We also thank principal and teachers for their support.

5. Community music concert

We'd like to thank the Zen An Homeless Social Welfare Foundation for providing cars and truck. And we thank parents of members for helping us to move musical instruments.

6. Group discussions and website edition

We thank Information Technology Section for providing us the equipment and the place to practice. We also thank teachers for guiding us to edit skill of website.

Dancing class assisted filming	The instruments are hard to move

Explain the intellectual property rights of the project website.

We used website to present our project so we should respect more about the intellectual property rights such as words, pictures, photos, and etc. We always marked the references of the original websites about the instruments introductions. Besides that, most subjects on the project website were from our own interviews or notes.

Marking the references from the original websites	Special logos designed by team members

Finding, learning, and wondering

We learned a lot in this project and found lots of wondering:

1. As a member of the orchestra said: Before, we always kept practicing our own instruments without noticing other kinds of instruments. By interviewing other concertmasters, we understood more about other instruments and how they made the sounds. We also shared the experiences with each other.
2. The training is very hard. Besides the passion of music, our instructor, Ms. Fang-Min Liu, teaches us in an interesting way. We have fun a lot in our club, our family.
3. Ms. Liu wants to train us as musicians. She arranged many performing activities such as the opening show of county sports meet, Christmas Eve concerts, community concert, and etc. We are honored to be a versatile orchestra, not just a contest band.
4. We never thought to have a chance to participate in a TV show filming. It was kind of interesting. The director visited our school in advance and carried with a big video camera to film our practicing in campus. We really admired the director because he didn't only film but also arrange things in details. It was exciting and nervous when we went to Taipei studio of PTS. The studio was rather small than our imagination and filming work took us all day long to finish all the filming. We all knew it would only present on TV for less than1 hour. We were impressed.

Ms. Liu and the orchestra members	Unforgettable experience of filming in a TV show

Source: Innovative Musical Notes

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