◎Elements of project research plan
1. Please explain and describe how the project research plan of your team meets the goal and purpose of “Taiwan School Cyberfair.”:
Cyberfair is to encourage students at various levels of schools to explore local humanity and environment in the approach of project research and teamwork, using internet as the tool for communication.

The activity must through internet interaction and exchange to share the learning experience of exploring abundant multiple appearances of Taiwan with teachers and students in the world so that local students’ international view will be deepened. Furthermore, it also combines with education units, families, and private businesses to push information, environment, and local education; along with the connotation of information education and the spirit of English education, the vision and ability of future generation linking to the world is cultivated. By the process guiding of the competition, the environment education is cared in depth and the teaching of junior high and primary information, internet, English and environment care is fulfilled.

Grade 1-9 Curriculum focuses on the development of the sound citizen with humanistic feeling, integration capacity, democratic literacy, local and international awareness as well as being able to conduct lifelong learning. We used “The One and Only Type in Taiwan- Ri Xing Type Foundry” as the research topic, and we hope to develop students’ portable ability through collection and production of project information including plan making, information collecting, interview, topic exhibition and guided tour, and website production skills.

Language field:
Every discussion, progress report and reviewing developed students’ students’ creative thinking ability, trained the ability of active explore and research, and learned the ability of expression, communication and share from interview. Furthermore, we tried to participate in International Cyberfair this time and added English writing, and we progressed a lot in the development of English ability.
Comprehensive field: We held internal exhibition at the end of semester, and learned how to plan, organize and fulfill from the exhibition decoration and guided tour. We also realized the spirit of respect, care and teamwork, and established the basic ability of lifelong learning.
Art and humanity field: We invited arts teacher to instruct us and engraved the exhibition theme “The One and Only Type in Taiwan- Ri Xing Type Foundry”. Furthermore, the topic of Low-grade students: linking the words; language of flower and people (word tree). As to middle-grade students, the topic is star of butterfly brighten Chi-Jen. High-grade students’ topic is one word universe, poetry the campus” in accordance with the courses in art and humanity field at school. All of the teachers and students in the school could appreciate the combination of movable type promotion and traditional typecasting technique and learn the fulfilment and application of art through experiencing the production process of movable type, knowing the beauty of movable type and combining the internal exhibition.
Nature and life technology field: we used lots of knowledge related to information technology, and we obtained the ability of applying information technology by keeping detailed record through digital camera, camcorder and voice recording pen as well as through looking up information by computer and internet, the discussing among the members of Cyberfair and communicating with the teachers, processing of photos, and production of webpage.

2. Please explain and describe which information technology have you used to complete your project research plan?
Name of Information Technology Main application
Telephone Get in touch with the interviewee and team members.
Digital Voice Recorder Use to record the interview content.
DV Record the theme exhibition and actual guided tour.
Digital camera Photos taking and data picture remaking.
Scanner Scan the mind map and flow chart of the location of members of Cyberfair
USB flash drive Information backup
Computer Progress report and review writing, webpage production, data storage, look up information online.
Internet Searching information on line
PhotoImpact Webpage art editing.

Internet Explorer

Collecting information and contacting communication.
Filezilla File transmission.
Microsoft Word Word processing.
Flash Animation production.
Dreamweaver Producing and editing webpage.
Illustrator Webpage art editing.
Photoshop Webpage art editing.

3. The students attending the project research plan represented as the ambassador of individual local community and carried the duty of introducing local features to the audience all over the world. Please explain and describe what approach your team took in playing the role of “ambassador” through internet or individual and team contact?
By the guided tour and experiential activity at the end-of-term exhibition, all of our research members would like to bring out the fact that Ri Xing Type Foundry is the only remaining movable type foundry in Taiwan and is a place full of deep cultural meaning.

After the activity, we put all of the result into the website full of images and articles and added the link on the website of our school other than the space provided by Cyberfair. All of the parents, alumni, and friends from all over the world could know Ri Xing Type Foundry better through internet and feel the subtle of movable type, the beauty of type traditional technique, and the charm and value of standard Chinese characters.

4. What kind of influence and impact did the project research plan bring to your team?
Although we gained the experience that many people couldn’t have the chance to participate in the activity, we also sacrificed our lunch break and part of our holidays to meet everyone in the computer classroom for more discussion or attended the activities outside the school; moreover, our homework must be finished on time. Everyone has never said that they were tired even though the whole process was a hard work. After knowing the relevant history of Ri Xing Type Foundry and the difficulty of preserving type traditional technique, we learned more about the meaning why master Chien-Kuan Chang insisting “to let the culture of Chinese character become a culture in Taiwan that can be seen internationally!” It took us nearly more than 5 months from setting up the topic until completing the whole project research website. There were the sweet and the sour during the activity process and some of the teammates gave up before of the stress, but others insisted until the last minute. When the final result was presented in front of us, the sense of accomplishment was more than amazing! We learned we would be able to achieve something as long as we never gave up; we felt that we were very lucky to be able to attend the Cyberfair.

5. Respecting intellectual property rights and citation explanation?

We are reminded again and again by teachers in class that we must pay attention for not invading other people’s copyright when using the information from the internet. When we were planning the webpage for Cyberfair this time, we wrote all of the content for the project topic and webpage ourselves in order to avoid the issue of intellectual property rights. Most of the photos were taken by us, and the rest of them were cited in the approach meeting the regulation of creative commons (CC).

6. Findings, lessons, and surprises?

After the open audition, the teacher selected us for Cyberfair exhibition; frankly speaking, we felt fearful more than excited. Other than having no idea of what we needed to do, we had to complete the important event with classmates that we were not familiar with. There was a period of time that we really wanted to give up, but we deeply felt very happy and lucky of being able to attend Cyberfair after overcoming a series of difficulties. We obtained some different experiences from the activity, for example, in our first interview and the first time to be a reporter in filming a video to introduce Ri Xing Type Foundry and Lin’s word shelf, Chieh-Chang Li received NG for many times before completing it! Furthermore, the guided tour to all of the students in the school was also a team work that everyone worked together; we put the difficult and complicated task together and completed it together.

When speaking in front of so many people for the first time during the guided tour, everyone was very nervous and frightened. We fixed our eyes on the draft in our hands with a very stiff voice, and then we tried to improve but the effect after improvement was not outstanding. After discussion and practice again and again, everyone felt very excited and funny. We felt indescribable excitement when putting it into real practice and also felt things go smoothly. There were lots of feelings occurred during the activity but no thought of giving up appeared.We received a lot from the experience of attending Cyberfair and learned a lot of knowledge that was not in the textbook, and it has definitely become a very good memory in our life.


 

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