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1. Description of Our Community
Tainan Municipal Bo Dong Elementary school is a school, less than one hundred students, and located in Taina city Kuanmiao district. Local people usually are farmers, and their main plants are bamboo and pineapple. In particular, pineapple is the most renowned, and most local famers are depending on it. Therefore, the transportation around Kuanmiao are developed raipdly to enhance the advantages of its tourism and exportation.
2. Summary of Our Project
Our students also went outdoors to ask local residents and farmers for exclusive interview. They interviewed some young people from Guanmiao about the development of fabric clothes by using the pineapple leaves. Besides the interviewing, we also encouraged the students to observe and experience outside world. After exploring the surroundings of every corners of school and communities, they would found out many people devoting themselves to their hometown without asking anything in return. The students would learn local famous products from outdoor activity, and it could further developing the features of Guanmiao’s local products. In the future, we hope the students can advertise what they have learned from the activity and let more people know local characteristics of Guanmiao.
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:2-3
E. Additional comments concerning your computer and/or Internet access (Optional):
We made good use of Cloud, such as Google Drive and dropbox, to access, upload and share our documents, videos and photos (taken by digital camera or smartphone). Using the software and website platform made us work more efficiently. Used information technology: (1) Desktop computer, Laptop, Pad: search information on the internet, data integration, project website processing (2) Printer, copy machine: copy or print data, worksheet, questionnaire, interview draft, etc. (3) Telephone: Contact with the interviewer. It’s also an important tool to connect between team members.
4. Problems We Had To Overcome
We made good use of Cloud, such as Google Drive and dropbox, to access, upload and share our documents, videos and photos (taken by digital camera or smartphone). Using the software and website platform made us work more efficiently. Used information technology: (1) Desktop computer, Laptop, Pad: search information on the internet, data integration, project website processing (2) Printer, copy machine: copy or print data, worksheet, questionnaire, interview draft, etc. (3) Telephone: Contact with the interviewer. It’s also an important tool to connect between team members.
5. Our Project Sound Bite
We are so happy to have this oppotunity to experience this amazing journey. In the begining, we could not imagine that we can complete the task. In this year, we have been through loads of ups and downs. There have been some serious frustrations because of team members’ personal issues, time pressure and skills training. However, these problems have been gradually overcome through teachers’ direction and coordination. Even though we are young, our hearts are big. Children are willing to do whatever they can to achieve the goal - promoting local industries, and their motivation is the love of hometown.
6. How did your activities and research for this CyberFair Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?
While doing the tasks - writing the report, doing promotion and interviewing people, we divided these into small tasks, and destributed them to different students, depending their interests and abilities. After finishing their parts, we put them back together into a complete work. The tasks could not be divided evenly. Therefore, the faster students would help the slower ones. Because of everyone’s dedication and cooperation, we fulfill the project on time.
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1) What information tools & technologies did you used to complete your CyberFair project?
We made good use of Cloud, such as Google Drive and dropbox, to access, upload and share our documents, videos and photos (taken by digital camera or smartphone). Using the software and website platform made us work more efficiently. Used information technology: (1) Desktop computer, Laptop, Pad: search information on the internet, data integration, project website processing (2) Printer, copy machine: copy or print data, worksheet, questionnaire, interview draft, etc. (3) Telephone: Contact with the interviewer. It’s also an important tool to connect between team members.
2) In what ways did you act as "ambassadors" and spokespersons for your CyberFair project both on-line and in person.
Our students also went outdoors to ask local residents and farmers for exclusive interview. They interviewed some young people from Guanmiao about the development of fabric clothes by using the pineapple leaves. Besides the interviewing, we also encouraged the students to observe and experience outside world. After exploring the surroundings of every corners of school and communities, they would found out many people devoting themselves to their hometown without asking anything in return. The students would learn local famous products from outdoor activity, and it could further developing the features of Guanmiao’s local products. In the future, we hope the students can advertise what they have learned from the activity and let more people know local characteristics of Guanmiao.
3) What has been the impact of your project on your community?
Guanmiao, Tainan is a hometown for pineapple, and its production is nearly the top in Taiwan. Not only pineapple can be edible, but the fiber of it also has numerous usages. Di Wei, Hsu, a young artist from Guanmiao, tried to use the fiber of pineapple to make paper or fabrics (clothes, or hat, etc.). They hope it can promote pineapple industry with more diversified culture perspectives, so that the hometown of pineapple will be known for more people.
4) How did your project involve other members of your community as helpers and volunteers?
The effects of the school and the communities This project strongly connected the communities, farmers, stores and local people, and they all well surpported it. Because of that, students felt strong passions and helps from these people. The effects of people and society We hoping this project can be widely spread through the internet. In this way, the society can understand the beauty and the importance of local industries. Moreover, it could boost local marketing and keep local business.
5) Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises (Optional)
During the process, we bumped into many different obstacles. For solving these issues, we learnt how to communicate with each other and take the responsibilites to keep the project going. If there were not team members’ efforts, our webpage could not be done on time. Therefore, preparation and data collection were required before interviews. Otherwise, the progress would be stalled. From this project, we deeply understood our hometown’s characteristics and learnt the techniques to communicate, logical thinking, schedule planning and so on. The experiences we had are so enormous and priceless.
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View our CyberFair Project
(Project ID: 8378)
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