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Today is the first meeting of our cyber fair project. All of the members are not familiar with each other because it is the first time we meet. After introductions and chatting, we begin to know each other. We learn to build SSO today. SSO (Single sign-on) is a property of access control of multiple related, yet independent, software systems. With this property, a user logs in with a single ID and password to gain access to a connected system. Therefore, we do not have to log in every time we try to gain access to each individual system. We can transfer our homework and data to the same place. Teacher teaches us about cyber fair related information, including eight categories:【Local Leaders】、【Community Groups & Special Populations】、【Local Business】、【Local Specialties】、【Local Attractions】、【Historical Landmarks】、【Environment Awareness】、【Local Music, Art & Culture】, the origin and meaning of cyber fair, etc. It really grows our interests in cyber fair. We hope we can enjoy making this project.
Today we watch many previous winning cyber fair projects. Every one of them has its own distinguishing feature. We have a general understanding on how to present a perfect project. Next, teacher gives us grading sheets and tells us to grade each web page based on several criteria such as: research project, any missing parts on the pages, proper organized structure or not, and if the web page shows the research purpose, topic and central proposition, etc. Through commenting on these winning projects, we can understand grading criteria and emphasized direction of cyber fair. While we are grading, videos on some of these projects cannot be played. We thought that we found out a mistake for this perfect work, but it turned out the problem was on the hardware (computer). Honestly, it is not easy to pick out problems from these winning projects. They are really deserved their prizes! Teacher also mentions that they usually realize what the real problems are when production begins based on past experiences. We hope we can have the ability to find the mistakes from our semi-professional angle after learning from these projects. We assign a topic for everyone based on the experience today. We also try to avoid copyright infringement because it is a common obstacle while doing cyber fair project.
Today two new members-Bing-You, Zheng-Yao joining Team Pika. Although they just join us and are still not very familiar with cyber fair, their writings are pretty good. They are also very friendly, so it does not take very long for them to assimilate into the group. Teacher asks us to pick a team captain to lead us. We all recommend Bing-You. Even though he is a new member, he works very hard, the most diligent in our team. Our work progress has accelerated because of the new members. Some of the original members have to withdraw from the team because they cannot cooperate with meeting times. It shows that making cyber fair project takes our time and effort. We have to coordinate with the team to finish our own responsibilities and assignments. If we only participate in this project on a whim, it can only lead to renouncement eventually! Reading report is our reflections on essential points of that article. After report and discussions, our reflections are:picking a topic is a crucial factor on whether the project will be good or not. Besides, we have to concentrate on important points. Excessive decoration is usually counterproductive. We have to take different readers into consideration. To sum up, the most important thing about cyber fair is to lead students to learn from the process of the competition. It is the true goal of cyber fair.
Our assignment this time is collecting information and presenting every topic we found. Every one of us works hard to collect information about our topics. We have ten topics including, Silver Star Weather Station-Lu Quan-En, Hemei Martial Arts-Xiao Ga Ban, Khah-li-sian’s tree(Rainbow House), Yao Jia-Wen, Merida Bikes, Hemei Textile, Lugang Mazu Temple, Honmyue Textile, Triple Five Group, Hometown of Faucet-Ding Fanpo, etc. We are not familiar with local attractions and historical landmarks, so most of our topics are local leaders, local business, and local specialties. Everyone presents his/her own topics and teachers give pros and cons on each topic. For example, Silver Star weather station’s one disadvantage is lack of diversity;It will probably be difficult to obtain first hand information on Yao Jia-Wen;As for Merida Bikes, Honmyue Textile and Triple Five Group, we will probably encounter some questions related to trade secret during the interview. Our next mission is picking one topic out of the ten. Teachers remind us that our topic has to be full of diverse stories, something we are able to collect first hand information, and show contribution to local population. We take this decision very seriously because this is the most important part of cyber fair. We are very uneasy after ending today’s meeting.
Last week each one of us picks one topic. They are:Silver Star Weather Station-Lu Quan-En, Hemei Martial Arts-Xiao Ga Ban, Khah-li-sian’s tree(Rainbow House), Yao Jia-Wen, Merida Bikes, Hemei Textile, Lugang Mazu Temple, Honmyue Textile, Triple Five Group, Hometown of Faucet-Ding Fanpo. Every member voices his/her own opinion as references for our final decision. Today we discuss the most suitable topic for our cyber fair project from these ten. Everyone is more in favor of “Silver Star Weather Station-Lu Quan-En” and “Hemei Martial Arts-Xiao Ga Ban.” Teacher lays out pros and cons about these two topics one more time because of how crucial it is for our project. After our teacher’s analysis, we vote on the most perfect topic in our minds:”Silver Star Weather Station-Lu Quan-En.” There is another important reason we pick this topic, because there is also a small weather station in our Hemei High School. We also have a teacher who is specialize in these topic can give us guidance. Therefore, picking “Silver Star Weather Station-Lu Quan-En” is absolutely perfect! After deciding on our topic, we begin to search information related to Silver Star weather station. We hope we get to understand everything about it through our research. On the other hand we are a bit worried. We don’t know if master Lu Quan-En is willing to be interviewed by us. Personal interview is crucial to our first hand information. If we can obtain his approval, we will have to re-pick our topic. All of our hard work would be for nothing. |