★How did your activities and research for this Cyberfair Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?:
The Love Yuanlin Railway Cyberfair project combines the subjects of Language, Arts and humanities, Social studies, Comprehensive activities, and Information and life technology of Jingsiou Elementary School to plan a school-based curriculum.
Language
Arts and humanities subject
Social studies subject
Comprehensive activities
Information and life technology subject
★What information tools & technologies did you use to complete your Cyberfair project?
Information and life technology subject
1. Learned to use the Internet to collect information about Yuanlin Railway.
2. Learned to use Internet software, such as email, PowerPoint, and Good Color, to send mails, make presentations, and produce posters.
3. Learned to use the camera and photo editing software to record the research progress.
4. Learned to design the online survey and use Excel to conduct statistical analysis.
5. Learned to create a cute self-portrait doll with drawing software such as Photoshop, PhotoImacnt, Photocap, and Little Artist.
6. Used the recorder pen and camcorder to record interviews, and then typed the contents into WORD document.
7. Learned to create webpages with Weebly, a website-builder.
★In what ways did you act as "ambassadors" and spokespersons for your Cyberfair project both on-line and in person.
In the project, the team members played the following ambassador roles:
Knowledge Ambassadors:
The members created webpages, set up thematic poster walls, and held obstacle courses to convey the knowledge and actions, such as Yuanlin’s development, Yuanlin Railway history, constructions, environmental care, and site visits, to the public. We also created a presentation file and held four lectures for six classes in order to let the students understand Yuanlin Railway and its environmental history.
Arts Ambassadors:
We visited communities to learn the beauty and particularity of their railway relics, held contests such as South Yuanlin Station Remodeling and Railway Silo Outer Wall Painting to beautify the environment, solicited contributions from the art classes of National Yuanlin Senior High School for the Railway Silo Wall Painting activity to connect the activation of the Railway Silo to the arts, and personally painted community walls to give our love to hometown.
Diligent Ambassadors:
We learned the diligence and efforts of the decision makers and implementers towards public constructions through interviewing Yuanlin Township Mayor, Director of Yuanlin Station, and Section Chief and Section Director of Central Region Engineering Office. We also interviewed a cultural worker, two community chairmen, three residents of railway neighborhoods, and three students from Jingsiou Elementary School to listen to their feelings and views on environmental changes. We will pass down the striving spirits of the thirteen interviewees and their attitude for making a better environment.
Goodwill Ambassadors:
We assisted the school in setting up Jingsiou Railway Story Hall in the small art pavilion modified from an old restroom and displaying the railway relics that we borrowed from Yuanlin Station and Central Region Engineering Office. We also drew a Love Yuanlin Railway Time Corridor and made posters. Moreover, we held the Love Yuanlin Railway checkpoints activity with six checkpoints through which the participants could learn the history of the hometown railway and environment and get close to the disappeared light railway trains, road signs, and other railway culture.
Survey Ambassadors:
We used the survey to know the public’s views regarding the issues of railway environment of our hometown and created the Love Yuanlin Railway Proposal for the Yuanlin Township Office and other units for their reference. We suggested them to paint the outer wall of Railway Silo as a new attraction first, and then launch the URS (urban regeneration station) project to change South Yuanlin Station to a sugar factory ice shop, add a railroad coffee shop and other shops with Yuanlin features inside Yuanlin Station, and build a shopping street, green area, bike lane, or other leisure or tourist facilities under the viaduct.
★How did your project involve other members of your community as helpers and volunteers?
★What has been the impact of your project on your community?
The Cyberfair project took us eight months to complete. Without supports of the administration team, parent volunteers, and residents, it would not complete. We would like to thank the Township Mayor (Mr. Ching-kun Chang), railway station director (Mr. Wu-song Chang), Section Chief of Central Region Engineering Office (Mr. Wen-gui Hsu), and Section Director (Mr. Sen-yung He), for the interview. We learned the developing history of Yuanlin Township from different angles and visited South Yuanlin Station, Yuanlin Bike Path, train station, and Railway Silo to experience things around the Yuanlin Railway.
We visited residents’ homes to do survey and collected 588 questionnaires. Additionally, we designed an online questionnaire and got 1180 feedbacks. On February 10, 2015, the Jingsiou Vanguard Team sent a proposal, according to the statistical result of the survey, to the Yuanlin Township Office to deliver the thoughts of 1768 Yuanling residents. We invited students of National Yuanlin Senior High School to participate in the Railway Silo outer wall painting contest. Perhaps in the near future, the selected excellent art works would become the new look of the Railway Silo. The team members went out on weekends and holidays to clean the environment and paint walls in order to green and beautify the community. The residents responded us positively. They provided their walls to let us paint and were willing to work with us to keep our community neat and clean.
The wrongdoing is always wrong even if many people do it. Similarly, even if no one wants to do the right doing, we must bravely insist in doing it. As long as you and I work together to care and protect the small love seed for hometown that we have planted, soon we will be able to smell the fresh fragrance of blooming flowers.
★All of the content of the web pages of the research project must be created and completed by the team members. You must obey the intellectual property right policy and cite any sources of information used, such as others' websites, articles, or illustrations, etc. Please explain and share your process, experience, and thoughts in knowing and understanding intellectual property rights with 300 words or less. If you have more stories to share, you may open up a new unit in your website to avoid a lengthy description.
Before participating in Cyberfair, our teacher has constantly reminded us that we must generate our own contents instead of copying, or stealing, works of others. If we had to refer to contents of others, we should clearly cite the sources of information to respect others’ intellectual property rights.
*Text:
Most text contents of the website were generated according to the contents of audios and videos that we took during interviews. The text contents also include our journal and afterthoughts. As for the history, origin, and development of the Yuanlin Railway, we first collected information from the Internet, books, and interviewees’ narratives, and then we compiled the information into written description after discussion and reorganization. At last, we clearly cited all sources of information if we had to introduce particular information or terminologies.
* Photos:
Mr. Chan-yuan Lyu, an international photographer, has given us the consent and authorization to use his photo works in our Web pages. We took the rest of the photos and videos of the Web pages with the digital camera. As for the introduction, history, and pictures about Yuanlin Railway, we cited their sources for respecting their intellectual property rights.
★Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises
During the interviews, the government officers didn’t ignore our suggestions or questions because of our age. We found that a good construction should mind the details so that it could provide the best safety. In the lecture tour, we found that most students cared about the environmental changes and the culture and history that were being lost needed more people to care and record. When working in community service, we found that the public needed to build consensus for greening and beautifying the environment. There is no age limit for protecting hometown. As long as we are willing to, everyone can play a significant force!
The Love Yuanlin Railway Cyberfair project combines the subjects of Language, Arts and humanities, Social studies, Comprehensive activities, and Information and life technology of Jingsiou Elementary School to plan a school-based curriculum.
Language
- Organized interview reports.
- Wrote afterthoughts of interviews and activities.
- Wrote the Love Yuanlin Railway Proposal and sent to Yuanlin Township Office.
- Created children’s songs and modern poems to tell the Yuanlin Railway history.
- Organized and documented railway relics of Jingsiou Station.
Arts and humanities subject
- Held a modification contest for Jingsiou Elementary School South Yuanlin Station.
- Held a painting contest for the outer wall of Jingsiou Elementary School Railway Silo.
- Made posters and props for the checkpoints activity.
- Played ocarina for the opening ceremony.
- Helped the relics exhibition in Jingsiou Station.
- Built a Jingxiu train with recycled materials.
- Produced a book for Love Yuanlin Railway.
- Took photos and videos at activities and interviews using cameras or cell phones.
- Held a painting activity for community walls.
Social studies subject
- Took a Yuanlin Township history class.
- Took a Yuanlin Railway history class.
- Visited the Yuanlin Sugar Railway.
- Visited the construction site of the Central Region Engineering Office.
- Visited the sector garage in Changhua County.
- Visited the Yuanlin Railway Silo.
- Visited the Changhua Railway History Center.
- Visited the Yuanlin Bike Path.
Comprehensive activities
- Designed a questionnaire for Love Yuanlin Railway.
- Collected the information of interviewees and designed interview questions for each interviewee.
- Held the lecture tour and checkpoints activity for the entire school.
- Interviewed Yuanlin Township Mayor, Yuanlin Station Director, Section Chief of Central Region Engineering Office, President of Hsinsheng Community, President of Nanping Community, three residents along the railway, and three sixth grade students from Jingsiou Elementary School.
- Conducted the Love Yuanlin Railway survey at Yuanlin’s streets and received a total of 588 valid questionnaires.
- Cleaned the community.
- Solicited contributions from the art classes of National Yuanlin Senior High School for the Railway Silo Wall Painting activity.
Information and life technology subject
- Used Google Maps to search the map of Yuanlin Township.
- Used PPT to create a presentation file for the lecture tour.
- Used Google to set up an online survey and conduct the statistical analysis for the survey.
- Used email, Facebook, and LINE for communication and data exchange.
★What information tools & technologies did you use to complete your Cyberfair project?
Information and life technology subject
1. Learned to use the Internet to collect information about Yuanlin Railway.
2. Learned to use Internet software, such as email, PowerPoint, and Good Color, to send mails, make presentations, and produce posters.
3. Learned to use the camera and photo editing software to record the research progress.
4. Learned to design the online survey and use Excel to conduct statistical analysis.
5. Learned to create a cute self-portrait doll with drawing software such as Photoshop, PhotoImacnt, Photocap, and Little Artist.
6. Used the recorder pen and camcorder to record interviews, and then typed the contents into WORD document.
7. Learned to create webpages with Weebly, a website-builder.
★In what ways did you act as "ambassadors" and spokespersons for your Cyberfair project both on-line and in person.
In the project, the team members played the following ambassador roles:
Knowledge Ambassadors:
The members created webpages, set up thematic poster walls, and held obstacle courses to convey the knowledge and actions, such as Yuanlin’s development, Yuanlin Railway history, constructions, environmental care, and site visits, to the public. We also created a presentation file and held four lectures for six classes in order to let the students understand Yuanlin Railway and its environmental history.
Arts Ambassadors:
We visited communities to learn the beauty and particularity of their railway relics, held contests such as South Yuanlin Station Remodeling and Railway Silo Outer Wall Painting to beautify the environment, solicited contributions from the art classes of National Yuanlin Senior High School for the Railway Silo Wall Painting activity to connect the activation of the Railway Silo to the arts, and personally painted community walls to give our love to hometown.
Diligent Ambassadors:
We learned the diligence and efforts of the decision makers and implementers towards public constructions through interviewing Yuanlin Township Mayor, Director of Yuanlin Station, and Section Chief and Section Director of Central Region Engineering Office. We also interviewed a cultural worker, two community chairmen, three residents of railway neighborhoods, and three students from Jingsiou Elementary School to listen to their feelings and views on environmental changes. We will pass down the striving spirits of the thirteen interviewees and their attitude for making a better environment.
Goodwill Ambassadors:
We assisted the school in setting up Jingsiou Railway Story Hall in the small art pavilion modified from an old restroom and displaying the railway relics that we borrowed from Yuanlin Station and Central Region Engineering Office. We also drew a Love Yuanlin Railway Time Corridor and made posters. Moreover, we held the Love Yuanlin Railway checkpoints activity with six checkpoints through which the participants could learn the history of the hometown railway and environment and get close to the disappeared light railway trains, road signs, and other railway culture.
Survey Ambassadors:
We used the survey to know the public’s views regarding the issues of railway environment of our hometown and created the Love Yuanlin Railway Proposal for the Yuanlin Township Office and other units for their reference. We suggested them to paint the outer wall of Railway Silo as a new attraction first, and then launch the URS (urban regeneration station) project to change South Yuanlin Station to a sugar factory ice shop, add a railroad coffee shop and other shops with Yuanlin features inside Yuanlin Station, and build a shopping street, green area, bike lane, or other leisure or tourist facilities under the viaduct.
★How did your project involve other members of your community as helpers and volunteers?
- We thank Section Chief of Central Region Engineering Office, Mr. Hsu, for providing small gifts to survey respondents and arranging the Jingsiou Vanguard Team to visit Railway Vision Hall twice for understanding how the Central Region Engineering Office protect relics. We thank the Section Chief, Mr. Sen-yong He, for answering our questions about the construction and giving us many promotional posters so that we could understand how huge and complicated influences people received during the environmental changes.
- We thank the General Secretary of Babuza Railway Culture Office, Mr. Chang-hong Ma, for introducing the railway history and methods for documenting and protecting relics. He also assisted us in completing the Jingsiou Railway Story Hall and arranged us to visit the Changhua Railway Heritage Office and roundhouse enthusiastically.
- We thank the President of TP Code Foundation, Mr. Chian-hsin Chang, for giving us the opportunity to visit the Railway Silo and learn the silo’s development and history.
- We thank Yuanlin Township Mayor, President of Hsinsheng Community, and President of Nanping Community for coming to our school for interview so that we could clearly know the operation of the township and what residents could participate in developing our community.
- We thank the parents, teachers, and students of the school for assisting us in interviews, online survey, modification, and soliciting contributions for painting designs.
- We thank many railway history experts and Facebook friends for lending personal photo works to the Jingsiou Railway Gallery and answering all the Jingsiou Vanguard Team’s questions when the Jingsiou Railway Story Hall was established.
★What has been the impact of your project on your community?
The Cyberfair project took us eight months to complete. Without supports of the administration team, parent volunteers, and residents, it would not complete. We would like to thank the Township Mayor (Mr. Ching-kun Chang), railway station director (Mr. Wu-song Chang), Section Chief of Central Region Engineering Office (Mr. Wen-gui Hsu), and Section Director (Mr. Sen-yung He), for the interview. We learned the developing history of Yuanlin Township from different angles and visited South Yuanlin Station, Yuanlin Bike Path, train station, and Railway Silo to experience things around the Yuanlin Railway.
We visited residents’ homes to do survey and collected 588 questionnaires. Additionally, we designed an online questionnaire and got 1180 feedbacks. On February 10, 2015, the Jingsiou Vanguard Team sent a proposal, according to the statistical result of the survey, to the Yuanlin Township Office to deliver the thoughts of 1768 Yuanling residents. We invited students of National Yuanlin Senior High School to participate in the Railway Silo outer wall painting contest. Perhaps in the near future, the selected excellent art works would become the new look of the Railway Silo. The team members went out on weekends and holidays to clean the environment and paint walls in order to green and beautify the community. The residents responded us positively. They provided their walls to let us paint and were willing to work with us to keep our community neat and clean.
The wrongdoing is always wrong even if many people do it. Similarly, even if no one wants to do the right doing, we must bravely insist in doing it. As long as you and I work together to care and protect the small love seed for hometown that we have planted, soon we will be able to smell the fresh fragrance of blooming flowers.
★All of the content of the web pages of the research project must be created and completed by the team members. You must obey the intellectual property right policy and cite any sources of information used, such as others' websites, articles, or illustrations, etc. Please explain and share your process, experience, and thoughts in knowing and understanding intellectual property rights with 300 words or less. If you have more stories to share, you may open up a new unit in your website to avoid a lengthy description.
Before participating in Cyberfair, our teacher has constantly reminded us that we must generate our own contents instead of copying, or stealing, works of others. If we had to refer to contents of others, we should clearly cite the sources of information to respect others’ intellectual property rights.
*Text:
Most text contents of the website were generated according to the contents of audios and videos that we took during interviews. The text contents also include our journal and afterthoughts. As for the history, origin, and development of the Yuanlin Railway, we first collected information from the Internet, books, and interviewees’ narratives, and then we compiled the information into written description after discussion and reorganization. At last, we clearly cited all sources of information if we had to introduce particular information or terminologies.
* Photos:
Mr. Chan-yuan Lyu, an international photographer, has given us the consent and authorization to use his photo works in our Web pages. We took the rest of the photos and videos of the Web pages with the digital camera. As for the introduction, history, and pictures about Yuanlin Railway, we cited their sources for respecting their intellectual property rights.
★Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises
During the interviews, the government officers didn’t ignore our suggestions or questions because of our age. We found that a good construction should mind the details so that it could provide the best safety. In the lecture tour, we found that most students cared about the environmental changes and the culture and history that were being lost needed more people to care and record. When working in community service, we found that the public needed to build consensus for greening and beautifying the environment. There is no age limit for protecting hometown. As long as we are willing to, everyone can play a significant force!