CyberFair Project ID: 7665

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International Schools CyberFair Project Narrative
Title: City Beats
Category: 2. Community Groups and Special Populations
URL: http://librarywork.taiwanschoolnet.org/gsh2014/gsh7665/index.htm
Bibliography: http://librarywork.taiwanschoolnet.org/gsh2014/gsh7665/8Project/8.1project.htm

School: Taipei Fuhsing Private School
    Taipei, Daan District, Taiwan

7 students, ages 15-16 worked together to complete this CyberFair project on March 12, 2014. They have participated in CyberFair in the following year(s): 2002,2003,2012,2013

Classes and Teachers: Lin,I-PING

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Our School's Web Site: http://www.fhjh.tp.edu.tw

Project Overview

1. Description of Our Community

As the capital of Taiwan, Taipei City has heavy traffic, skyscrapers, and prosperity. This is the typical impression people hold towards Taipei. However, as Taipei citizens, we are aware that Taipei still has large room for improvement. The Balcony Project allows us to realize the serious consequences from people’s selfishness in maintaining the cleanliness of the environment and the resulting messy appearance of the city. The Meet Taipei: Design project shows the deficiencies of Taipei, despite its good living quality. City Yeast is active in Taipei, and has brought gradual changes to Taipei through culture and design. It also encourages Taipei to be a better place. The city we live in is full of prosperity and ty, and will continuously improve through City Yeast.

2. Summary of Our Project

How many people really care about Taipei, this bustling city? How many people truly love Taipei and hope for the best of Taipei? Taipei has many unique features to be discovered and preserved, without being globalized and lost. City Yeast is devoted to help urban residents discover the beauty of Taipei and cultivate their feelings toward the city, by attracting the residents’ attention and curiosity through creativity, in order to develop city features that all residents are proud of. We hope that our research on City Yeast, and simulation of activities of City Yeast, we can show everyone the unique features of Taipei. Our joint efforts will make Taipei a better place.

In order to explore and introduce City Yeast, this Cyberfair project will be presented in 5 sections: introduction of City Yeast, fermentation action (including all the activities of City Yeast), foreign yeast (foreigners participating in City Yeast), voice of yeast (interviews with relevant persons, questionnaire survey) and yeast effect in school. The unique part of City Yeast is their creative, interesting, and meaningful projects. In order to experience the contents and processes of their work, we implemented our own creative and meaningful activities on campus. This is the yeast effect in school.

3. Our Computer and Internet Access

A. Percentage of students using the Internet at home:more than 50%

B. Number of workstations with Internet access in the classroom:more than 6

C. Connection speed used in the classroom:dedicated connection

D. Number of years our classroom has been connected to the Internet:more than 6

4. Problems We Had To Overcome

The main obstacle is the difficulty to coordinate our time. There are so many activities in senior high school. We need to prepare for cheerleading right after summer vacation, and the subsequent high school musical. Those are exhausting activities. Moreover, our team members are from three classes with different courses, homework and schedules, which make contacting very time-consuming. Nevertheless, we remind each other of meetings. Even though we may miss the meeting due to other activities, we bring our tasks home to complete. Important progress during meetings are passed on to those who could not attend. We try our best to minimize the impact of our busy high school life on the project progress.

5. Our Project Sound Bite

All of our team members are very talented, and we are confident that our project is better than others. On the other hand, as the team members have different traits, there are some disagreements, and we could not be united as we wanted. Moreover, some team members may not be able to complete the assigned tasks on time due to their occupied schedule. In this Cyberfair project, we have learnt many things, such as making a webpage, soliciting responses from other people regarding our ideas, researching and finding interview subjects, and developing strong local awareness. From this research theme, we see our city from a brand new perspective, and explore our residence from perspectives we never thought of before.

This Cyberfair project takes a long time. We often carry out interview after school or even on weekends. There is no regret. We have this rare opportunity to explore the city, our surroundings, and even ourselves from a new angle.

6. How did your activities and research for this CyberFair Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?

(1) Language Organizing, proofreading and writing website text, feedbacks, book reports (2) Science Manipulating technological facilities Designing the website Programming (3) Mathematics Statistical and logical analysis Organizing place, time and space (4) Aesthetics Designing logo and website(choosing colors, images, etc.) Photographing (5) Physical education Managing time Conditioning physical and mental health (6) Social science Using resources from the society (people, food, experience, etc.) Organizing and gathering information for interviews Local culture investigation (7) Integrated Organizing for outdoor activities Group job separation Interviewing and investigation Designing questionnaires

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Project Elements

1) What information tools & technologies did you used to complete your CyberFair project?

Hardware: (1)Computers and laptops: Searching and organizing information, producing the website (2)Digital recording pens and cameras: Recording information during interviews and working journals, geographical investigation (3)Electronic white board: group discussion (4)Painter: Creating images (5)30MB Internet Network: Connecting to the Internet (provided by school) (6)Portable disk: backing up information

Software: (1)Photoimpact: editing images and photos (2)Adobe Flash CS4 Professional:Creating website animations (3)Adobe Dreamweaver: Making website pages (4)FileZilla: Uploading website onto the net (5)X-Mind: Creating graphic organizers and job separation charts (6)ImageResizer: Resizing pictures (7)Fuhsing online academy: Platform for team members to communicate and exchange information (8)Corel Painter12 : Creating website background and images (9)Microsoft PowerPoint 2010: Creating website images (10)Microsoft Word 2010: Creating website information (11)Microsoft Excel 2010: Creating group separation chart and organizing information (12)E-mail: International interview (13)Image cutter: Editing images from screenshot (14)iMovie : Producing video “small pleasures”

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

1.We interviewed Ms. Agua Chou, Ms. Mimi Ye, Mr. Richard Wang, Mr. Mr. Ilteris Ilbasan, Mr. Gaston Caba and Ms. Seiko Mastumura, participants of City Yeast. We told them our goals to improve our surroundings, exchanging creative design ideas with them from their experience in City Yeast. 2.We distributed questionnaires on streets to let more people know about City Yeast, and convey our goals to improve the environment around us. We hope that we can have responses from more people. 3.We participated in City Yeast activities like Food Zero Waste and City Forum in order to experience what City Yeast intends to convey to the mass, and have further contact with City Yeast and its participants. 4.We held various activities related to creativity and design through our club, including “Metamorphosis”, “My October”, and “New Art”. We hope that the change of creativity and design can start from us. 5.We visited Treasure Hill Artist Village, a City Yeast public base, in order to know more about activities and impact of City Yeast on the public.

3) What has been the impact of your project on your community?

The whole project studies the concepts of City Yeast and how to develop it to make people follow it to change the city, focusing on metropolitan features. We follow the concepts of “anti-globalization” and “viscous city” and adhere to originality and design, to make Taipei unique and possesses originality.

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

(1)We interviewed Ms.Chou, Ms. Ye, Mr. Wang, Mr. Tang, Mr. Ilteris Ilbasan, Mr. Gaston Caba and Ms. Seiko Mastumura, participants of City Yeast. We told them our goals to improve the city, exchanging creative design ideas from their experience in City Yeast. (2)We distributed questionnaires on streets to let more people know about City Yeast, conveying our intention of improving the environment around us. We hope that we can have responses from more people. (3)We participated in City Yeast activities 'Food Zero Waste' and 'Super City Forum' in order to experience what City Yeast intends to convey to the public, and have further contact with City Yeast and its participants. (4)We held various activities related to creativity and design through our club, including “Metamorphosis”, “My October”, and “New Art”. We hope that the change of creativity and design can start from us. (5)We visited the City Yeast public base on Treasure Hill Artist Village in order to know more about activities and impact of City Yeast on the public.

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