Impact of our project

Before contacting HanGuang Vocal Band, we did not know much about a cappella. After researching for quite some time, we learned not only about a cappella, but also about writing poems and singing them in a cappella! Besides the Cyberfair team, students at Yu-Tsai have also learned to sing classical poetries in a cappella through learning, experiencing, and imitating. They have indeed made learning poems more interesting!
On our project website, we have a lot of first-hand reports, information on the band and a cappella, and activities relating to poetries. Through the website, one can not only learn more about the band, but also learn about singing a cappella and analyze classical poetries.
As for the content of the site, we invited Teacher Allegro, Chu and our music teachers to give us suggestions and verify on the accuracy of our research. Director Chu helped us with analyzing classical poetries. After the website was complete, we invited HanGuang Vocal Band, our teachers and principal, and parents to give us some feedbacks. All of them said that our research was very comprehensive and interesting, definitely worth the time to go through the site in detail!

Intellectual Property Rights

The content on this project website came from interviews, recordings, and discussions we had with HanGuang Vocal Band. After receiving consent from the interviewee, we then published these videos, photos, and discussions onto the website. References made on this website were made with respect to the principles of intellectual property rights. All pictures, videos, or data have received authorization from HanGuang Vocal Band before they were published on our website. Information taken from the Internet has been credited to its original source.

Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises

Discoveries

• Many Hands Make Light Work
  During our research, we got teams competing against each other to create synergy, and the end result was better than expected. While organizing and making and website, we got back to individual work with some people doing image editing and others working on content layout and editing.

• Let's A Cappella
  A cappella is not limited to adults, even kids are able to learn a cappella, and they may even do a better job than adults. When combined with classical poems, a cappella helps people learning about poetry. Learning poetry can now be both fun and relaxing.

• There Is More To Making A Website
  While we were making the website, we realized it was not easy at all! Besides organizing contents, we had to take care of all the minor details by using different software and contemplating how to bring our viewers the most comfortable and rewarding browsing experience.

Lessons

• Always Give It All You've Got
  During the project, we sometimes handed in works that were substandard due to time constraint, and they inevitably got rejected by our teachers. After the project, we have learned not to compromise on the quality of our work and give it all we’ve got!

• Time Management, Progress Tracking
  We used most of our time during lunch break and after school hours to work on the Cyberfair project in computer classroom. However, after we got there, we could not resist chatting with each other, leaving important tasks unattended. As a result, we got a bit behind near the end. We need to do a better job in time management and progress tracking to see the project moving forward according to the schedule.

  Surprises

  	We found out that HanGuang Vocal Band performs a truly amazing brand of a cappella with classical Chinese poetries as lyrics. They unveiled a new dimension of classical poetries with the merging of western music with eastern poetry. From HanGuang’s performances, we heard the poet’s heart and soul in the songs, and HanGuang's dazzling techniques in a cappella simply left us in amazement.

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