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1.How did your activities and research for this International Schools CyberFair project support content standards, required coursework and curriculum requirements?

 Field(s)

Relevant knowledge and skills

Language field

Data collection and sorting:

The presentation of complete websites requires the support from massive data and hence how to collect such data and classify, learning to delete unnecessary content, is an important skill.

　

Practice summarization and concluding key issues to enhance writing ability:

When we face with massive data in the process, we must continue to take training and learn to skim for key issues. We draw mind mapping from the process to assure the framework of the website. We routinely and constantly practice writing journal and review in order to skim for the key activity content from each assembly. The interview data are also the results of us listening to massive audio recording files and skimming for key issues.

　

Strengthening oral expression ability:

The questions raised during interview and the requests and explanations to students and teachers in school prior to conducting the questionnaire survey, as well as the different promotions conducted on students have helped us become more eloquent in the process of learning how to explain and communicate with others.

Mathematics field

Quantify and sort questionnaire data

After we collected the questionnaires survey from the school, we used the statistics system from Google Form to calculate on the data we collected in order to quantify the results.

　

Social study field

Visit hometown humanistic and natural landscape

The surveys show us the local and deliberate maintenance from the local area to the channel while the multiple ecological techniques for building channel even preserve the natural landscape of the local channel, infused into beautiful scenery where humanity and nature co-exist.

　

Connecting with hometown local culture and emotion

We constantly visited inside the ancient channel in this activity to understand the profound association between the channel and local public. We also understand the local economic development from the process as well as the resident’s care for channel and cherishing on the channel through the talks with the residents.

Natural and life science field

Acquaintance with relevant irrigation facilities

We have learned many techniques related to channel such as U-shaped gutter, open tunnel…etc. We also learn that the massive water flow brought by natural disaster or excess daughter will have tremendous impact on the local channel and even livelihood finance. The planning for these facilities becomes increasingly important.

　

Acquaintance with animal and plant ecology

We could see the distribution of local ecology in the channel preserved with considerably abundant animal and plant resources. We hope to find an ecology classroom from this seriously damaged city to truly interact with nature.

　

producing eco-friendly leave catching net

Large amount of fallen leaves could block the channel and so we reuse things in life and spontaneously participate in channel clean-up to improve the entire channel.

Art and humanity field

Webpage design and production

We need to use our aesthetics to complete the content on coverage design of the website theme, color colocation, and the design and plan for small components of the website.

Comprehensive activity field

Learning to cooperate and help each other in order to efficiently conduct the activity

We all need to conduct internal communication and determine how to cooperate in assembly, visit or promotion to the school, ebfore executing these scheduled plans in order.

　

Self and local connection

Acquaint with locality is the key content of our activity. We constantly consult with relevant units and talk to local residents for issues, or ask farmers and stores in local area to understand the local tourism. We expect to connect with the local area emotionally and understand that there is one place in hometown that merits our visit and learning.

　

problem thinking and solving

Find out problems encountered in website production and learn to overcome and solve then.

Information education

　

Learning basic knowledge and skills for information and internet technology

 1 Document software application

Use Microsoft word and powerpoint to conduct data sorting and presentation.

  2. Recording media use

Learn to use photos, video and audio recording to present more and richer information on the website content

  3. Website software application

Use Photoimpact and FLASH to produce head-shot and place on the website icons as well as animation on homepage

  4. Online Google related software application

To conveniently and readily conduct research, many Google online applications were learned, including: Google Sites, Cloud Storage, Google Form, and Google DOC.

　

2.What information tools & technologies did you used to complete your Cyberfair project ?　

Information Technology

For project research plan

Personal computer

　

For data connection and website production

　

Digital camera

For photo and filming

Mobile phone

Photo, video recording, audio recording and contact

Photocopier & printer

Information scanning and printing

Drawing board

Drawing homepage background

Google Site

For discussion on data and review stored and produced with the members in addition to co-authorizing and controlling teammate production progress at home

Google Cloud Storage

Storing data on online cloud, using mobile phone and computer to readily upload and download, in addition to opening data sharing between members to complete the different work progress

Google Chrome

For browsing website, data query, and collecting information need for upload and download

Google Form

Conducting questionnaire design, filling and statistics

Google Document

Conducting online co-authoring for questionnaire analysis

Microsoft Word

Conducting document and data compilation, project progress report, journal writing.

Designing content of questions, interview list

　

Microsoft powerpoint

Preparing promotion briefing

Photoimpact

Drawing personal head shot and producing homepage animation

FLASH

Drawing personal head shot and producing homepage animation

Dreamweaver

Preparing and editing website

3.In what ways did you act as "ambassadors" and spokespersons for your Cyberfair project both on-line and in person.

Our goal is to help people acquaint with Pingding ancient channel and hence we expressed our intention of production from the maintenance unit, personnel of Chi-Sing Irrigation Association. We had the opportunity to meet with the Chairman and after listening to our goal to introduce this place to more people, the Chairman asked Mr. Lin and Leader Zhou from the Association to company us through the channel. After knowing our intent to understand local situations in-depth, Mr. Lin and Leader Zhou even invited local resident Mr. A-Jiang and former village head Commissioner Zhou to introduce the local humanity and history to us. Meanwhile we visit the local farmers and understand the local tourism development in-depth. We decided to introduce this area to school teachers and students in addition to conducting promotion acivity. In the activity content, we continued to learn how to form questions, selection questions, and consult and talk with people from different areas and fields with considerable amount of harvest. We also identify with the culture of our hometown more.

　

4.How did your project involve other members of your community as helpers and volunteers?　

Before conducting this topic, members of our team did not know that Yangmingshan still preserves channel with such long period of history. When we visited the channel for the first time, we discovered that the tree channels are still used for important agriculture and livelihood water locally. What surprises us more is that although we have learned about channel, it has been a valuable experience for us to contact and experience in person that could not otherwise be acquired from textbook.

　

After conducting interview about channel with the personnel of Irrigation Association and local residents, we understand that the local residents live in a simple lifestyle and their focus of life is farming. Unlike the general busy life of Great Taipei, we discovered their true love for Pingding Ancient channel from the conversation with them, and they would first think about if the channel has been destroyed in times of windy or raining days and even typhoon days.  I was really touched because it is too easy to acquire anything in the society we live today. After watching their actions, their valuation and conservation of water make us feel much ashamed, as we always take water in life for convenience and waste water. Upon returning to school, we asked the teachers and students if they knew about Pingding ancient channel, and most of them did not know about this area. This really surprised us because this area is located in the same administrative district as Jiantan Elementary School but few people knew about his place. Moreover, we discovered from our survey that many students did not know what the real purpose of channel. We thought that it would have been a pity if the culture and wisdom left by predecessors just disappeared like this, so we decided to prepare and promote this interesting place to all students in school.

　

After promotion, people started to discuss more and we were happy about it. However we also remembers what the former local village head, Commissioner Zhou said, “The local residents do not necessarily want to improve the tourism here but only expect everyone coming here to care for the channel like us. Buy some vegetables and fruits before getting off the mountain and heading home, showing support for farmers here would be good enough.” We hope that this survey and promotion will help more people cherish these rare and valuable natural resources around us.

        

5.Consulting Intellectual Property Rights and Explaining Citations.　

The test of website, origin of channels, history and development until today, come from the interview, data collection, photos, and complied Pingding channel related information collected by members of “ancient channel secret exploring team” from Chi-Sing Irrigation Association and local residents. The questions of questionnaire consist of ideas from members, which are made into questions for teacher questionnaire and student questionnaire.. The photos and text introducing animals and plants in channel are taken from in-field survey and the introduction made by Teacher Wei-Ling Chen to the members. The relevant literature data on Pingding channel have been authorized by Chi-Sing Irrigation Association with consent. The interview with local residents and peripheral stores have all been agreed for publication on the website.

　

6.What influences or impacts did you receive from this research project?　　

Before doing the project, channels were just a term about farmland irrigation which we read from social study textbook. However after actual participation in the channel activity and designing a series of activities for them, we found out that channels are closely related to their life. Moreover such channels with simple structure are hidden with no-so-simple manufacturing method with proximity to nature and rich humanity history. This is something we have never discovered before.

　

When we conducted interview with people from Irrigation Association and local residents and distributed questionnaire to teachers and students in school, we were all very nervous before working on it because we worried that we would not perform well. The first time we stood on stage and faced with nearly all students in school, reporting our discovery from the channel, we were also nervous and we kept practice during winter vacation. Fortunately these experiences we learned helped us overcome our weakness and do our best. It is the bet lesson we have learned.

　

The most surprising part of the project production was the various functions built by the channel. For example, the some areas of the channel are would be excavated for gutter to provide water for the survival of small fish and shrimp in times of dry channel. The channel built with stacked rocks will leave seams in the middle for small fish and shrimp to hide. The metal fence in channel tunnel are deliberately design in horizontal direction for bats living inside to fly in and out more easily. These small ingenuities show us the profound love and natural presentation of Chi-Sing Irrigation Association and local residents. This is the most surprising part of the project.