10/13 Confirming the participation of the competition. Deciding on the theme

[Subject] Listing the participating students. Naming of the team
[Date] October 13
[Location] Conference Room
[Recorder] Guan-rong Lai

◎Teachers: Chiu-jin Lai, Guan-rong Lai, Chia-ying Wu
After we decided on the subject matter, Teresa Teng, we examined our own capability. Teacher Lai is an intern teacher for the fourth grade and Teacher Wu is an intern teacher for the second grade. If we had picked students from our own classes, those students would have encountered tremendous difficulties in information technology. Therefore, we decided to reach out to the tutors who teach the fifth and sixth grades and whose hobbies are related to information technology.

Teacher Chiu-jin Lai showed great enthusiasm by expressing an interest in joining our team. With a record of winning a silver medal in the Teresa Teng Singing Competition, Teacher Chiu-jin Lai was a super addition to our team. Thus, we embarked on the Cyberfair journey!

10/27Internal Cyberfair meeting 1
[Subject] On-campus meeting
[Date] 10. 27
[Location] Conference Room
[Recorder] Chia-ying Wu
◎Releasing Scripts:
Teresa Teng : Five Topics: Story of Her Life, Interviews, X Factory, Creative Writing & Drawing and MV.
* Interviews—Teresa Teng's teachers and classmates

◎ Suggestions from the teachers
Director Wu: We may interview Mr. Lian-fu Yang and Teacher Fu-yang Li. Our school has held two singing competitions and should consider doing this again this year. (We may go to ChinPoSan to interview those who visit Teresa Teng's tomb and ask them to express their thoughts)
Headmaster: We should seek the support from Parents' Community. If we plan to compete overseas, the translation and design of one piece of work would cost approximately NT$80,000. It would be difficult for the school to pay such expenses. Therefore, we should select some students whose parents are members of Parents' Community to assure future funding.
Teacher Fang-yuan Chiang
1. Uploading of the plan structures of all teams
2. Uploading of the minutes of all meetings
3. Computer Classroom d ready to install all software applications and instruct students.
4. Computer Classroom e ready to edit video clips
5. Internet bulletin board to be fully utilized

Additional Remarks from Principle Ke:
We are a novice in this game and we must cope with a steep learning curve. The focus of Cyberfair is on technical competences in Taiwan whereas that of Cyberfair overseas is on the learning process. For example, why there is a wax house, Madame Tussaude in Hong Kong ?
Boat traveling in mainland China to experience the charms of Teresa Teng's songs

Health Issue—Teresa died of asthma
Debate─ We should find a judge to provide instructions and give scores.

[Subject] First greetings---Introduction of the teachers and research topics
[Date] 11.17.
[Location] Grade 5 activity room
[Recorder] Wei-li

◎ Introduction of Teresa Teng to students
Background of Songs & Relevant Pictures

A number of pictures were shown to introduce the story of Teresa Teng and her legacy. She was an outstanding alumnus from our school. This is why we chose her as our research subject. Meanwhile, a couple of Teresa's famous songs were played. These songs included Comeback, Sweetness, Little Town Story, Wishing We Last Forever. The students would be immersed in the graceful voice of Teresa Teng and therefore, become interested in the research work.

◎ Homework: Learning Memos
Learning memos were issued to students so that they would bring them home to ask their parents or seniors what they know about Teresa Teng. A summary of their findings would be noted down.

11/22 Confirming the list of participants and team names

[Subject]Confirming the list of student participants and team names
[Date] 11.28
[Location] Computer Room D
[Recorder] Ai-ting

◎ Additional remarks from the teachers:
After witnessing the level of information technology competences, Teacher Lai and Teacher Wu started to worry about the potential bottleneck when it comes to web page productions.

Therefore, we sought advice from Director Wu. After Director Wu allowed us to finish our explanations, he took us to all the sixth grade classes to promote our Cyberfair activities. We issued the letters of participation intent to all the students and asked volunteer students to take the IT screening tests the next day. A total of five IT experts came out of the screening tests and they are Wen-chi Chao, Chao-yuan Lin, Si-han Wu, Shiou-hui Chen and Yi-jun Tsai. We welcome them to join our team!

12/5 Production of Teresa Teng theme posters

[Subject] Commencement of theme posters
[Date] 12.5
[Location] Grade 5 activity room
[Recorder] Jing-wei
◎ Team discussions on the content of the posters
◎ Production of the posters
◎ Issuing the manuals and card plates

12/8 Production of the posters

[Subject] Production of the posters
[Date] 12.8
[Location] Grade 5 activity room
[Recorder] Bo-hui
◎ Lecture Content:
1. Instructing the teachers to log on Taiwan School Net to entry data in order to complete the registration process.
2. Cyberfair registration completed.

◎ Learning:
Everybody started to log on the Internet to entry data. However, we all encountered problems. Some people did not have personal accounts. Others had never entered personal data. A large amount of time was spent on this task and assistance from the teachers was required. However, after this exercise, we all obtained our personal mail accounts. We only need to remember the account details and passwords

12/13 Visiting the school history room

12/14 Cyberfair project

[Subject]Cyberfair project
[Date]12.14
[Location]Office
[Recorder]Yi-wen

More ideas emerged after the teachers took part in the Cyberfair project today. A couple of tough questions were raised to Teacher Li-shu Weng at Lujiang Elementary School. This helped a lot to refine our research project in the future. Our teachers expected us to demonstrate good team spirits. We were expected to be actively involved in the study of Teresa Teng's story so that we could strike some sparks during the process!

Teresa Teng’s story so that we could strike some sparks during the process!
Lujiang Elementary School Teacher Li-shu Weng delivered the speech. She said that we must be determined to win!

12/15 Releasing the posters

[Subject]Releasing the posters
[Date]12.15
[Location]Grade 5 activity room
[Recorder] Chi-hua
◎ Releasing the posters
Each team went on the stage and explained the theme of the poster and the content, followed by a Q&A session to discuss pros and cons of each presentation. Finally, the teachers made their comments.

12/16. Confirming the project schedule

[Subject] Confirming the project schedule
[Date]12.16
[Location] Office
[Recorder]Chia-ying Wu

◎Teacher Lai and Teacher Wu came up with the Cyberfair project schedule and asked Director Wu to get in touch with Lian-fu Yang and Teacher Han-chuan Liao.? (Big thanks to the generous support from Director Wu!)

◎ Mock interivew:
Interviewee: Teacher Mei-ling Li
Date: Next Tuesday or Wednesday

Reporters asked their questions as consolidated. Teacher Mei-ling Li was very well informed of the story of Teresa Teng. This was the opportunity to practice how to interview professionals and to gain insights into the background of Teresa Teng.

◎ Consolidating interview questions:
After the collation of questions noted in Learning Memos, the team divided these questions into three topics: Mr. Yang, Teresa Teng's children and Teresa Teng's performance career.

12/21 Issuing interview itinerary and interview questions

[Subject]Preparations for the interview
[Date]12.21
[Location]Computer Room A
[Recorder]Bo-hsiang

Subject: Preparations for the interview
◎ Issuing the interview notice. Replies expected by Friday.?

12/22 Internal meeting before the interview

[Subject] Internal meeting before the interview
[Date] 12.22
[Location] Computer Room A
[Recorder] Chi-hsiung

◎ Interview questions:
1. Reading through the consolidated interview questions carefully and screening out the inappropriate ones. Key issues were identified.
2. Interview Guideline No. 2: Manners
Read thoroughly the guidelines issued by the teachers.
◎ Mock interview
The interview with Teacher Mei-ling Li was scheduled for next Monday. All the intern reports were required to practice how to conduct interviews. A mock interview was administered today.
◎Invitation cards
Invitation cards were ready. An invitation was sent to Teacher Mei-ling Li's class, asking the teacher to accept the interview from Teng's Investigation Team at noon next Monday.?

[Subject]Regular internal meeting
[Date]12.22
[Location]Conference Room
[Recorder]Guan-rong Lai
◎Status reports from all the team groups:
1. A report was submitted by the Teng’s Investigation Team regarding the process this week and the future plan. An interview would be conducted in mid January at Lujhou Town Hall, which hosts the Teresa Teng Singing Competition.? Director Wu would coordinate with the parties to be interviewed. Thanks Director Wu again for his great support.

2. The report covered the difficulties currently encountered. The quality of Learning Diary submitted by students was not to the expectations of teachers. Although they could express their ideas, there was a general lack of substantial content. The director suggested that the teachers give samples for the students to imitate so that the students could gradually improve to meet the expectations.
->Current ways of improvement: Team group leader took turns releasing their first article and other group members made additional comments to augment the content. All the members expressed their ideas and worked together to make up the missing parts.

◎ Report from Teacher Jiang:
1. A recording pen and a memory stick were procured. Each group may loan these two items for interviews by submitting prior requests.
2.Inviting Teacher Li-shu Weng of Lujiang Elementary School Teacher Li-shu Weng to host a group discussion session in order to assist us in coping with some problems. The meeting was tentatively scheduled for Dec 29th (Thursday).

[Subject]Interview with Teacher Liao &Teacher Li
[Date]12.26
[Location]Grade 5 activity room
[Recorder] Hao-che
◎ Activity Flows
1. Seating arrangements: The Teng’s Investigation Team members arranged the seats in the Grade 5 activity room into a square in order to facilitate the interview.
2. Introducing the teachers: The teachers who would be interviewed today were Teacher Han-chuan Liao and Teacher Mei-ling Li.
3. Interviews: Each group member took turns interviewing these two teachers.
4. Picture browsing: Teacher Liao brought with him the pictures of Teresa Teng he collected so that we could have a good look.
5. Thank-you cards: Thank-you cards that we produced were presented to the teachers for their wonderful help.

12/27 Preparations for the interview with Mr. Yang

[Subject]Preparations for the interview
[Date]12.27
[Location]Computer Room A
[Recorder]Pei-chen

◎ Lecture content:
1. Further improve interviewing manners. Reviews of shortcomings on the interview on December 26. This boosted confidence for tomorrow.
2. Production of thank-you cards. Thanks to Teacher Guo's great assistance.
3. Confirming the progress status of thank-you cards. Completed.

◎ Production of the Teng's Investigation Team's Bulletin Board
1. Newest updates
2. Project schedule
3. Status reports
4. Learning Diary

12/28 Interviewing Lian-fu Yang

12/30 Image processing software teachin

[Subject]Software teaching
[Date]12.30
[Location]Computer Room A
[Recorder]Yi-cheng

◎ Participating teams:
The understanding of the status progress of the“Leadership Team”helped to solidify the team spirits of the Teng's Investigation Team.
◎ Image processing software
The teachers demonstrated the ways to operate a software application, in order to produce greeting cards. Team members produced their own cards.
◎ FTP :
The teachers asked us to store our finished work into our team’s FTP space on the hard-disk. We needed to remember the account names and passwords in order to log in at a later stage.
◎ Internal meeting before the interview with Teacher Liao
We were going to have another interview with Teacher Liao on Monday. The teachers distributed us the prepared list of the interview questions so that we could familiarize ourselves with these questions once again.

1/2 Interview with Teacher Liao. Instructions on debating skills

◎Debate Subject:?? [Whether it is worthwhile to preserve Teresa Teng’s old residence]
◎Debating method:
Choosing the stance where evidence could be drawn, such as:
Pro:
1. Preserving the traditions for future generations.
2. Potential to develop tourism by leveraging on Teresa Teng’s fame.
3. Others.

Con:
1. Impacts to the planning of the City government and the city landscape by preserving old architects.
2.Teresa Teng not as popular these days. Little value to maintain the old building.
3. Others.
◎Teacher Shia made the following suggestions:
1. If you know yourself as well as your enemy, you will come out of one hundred battles with one hundred victories.
2. Avoid exposing the weaknesses of your own arguments. Minimize the possibilities of attacks from the opponents.
3.Seek evidence to support your own arguments.
(Thanks to the explanations from Teacher Shia. We now have a good idea of the debating techniques.)
◎ Internal meeting before the debate:
1. Demonstrations by the teachers on how to debate.
2. Explaining the debating procedures.
3. Discussions
4. Try-out debates by the students
5. Discussions to be carried on back home using the Bulletin Board
6. Commencement of the debate on Thursday

1/3 Tree-map for the web pages. Teresa Teng point collection cards.

[Subject]Introduction of a tree-map. Issuing the point collection cards.
[Date]1.3
[Location]Grade 5 activity room
[Recorder]Jia-ying
◎ Completion of the tree-map for the web pages
After a series of brainstorming sessions, we consolidated all the planning we came up with before and combined it with the future events on the Project Schedule. We linked all the events with the songs of Teresa Teng so that this project was loaded with her artistic flair. The whole process was reflective of the efforts made by the Teng’s Investigation Team. We wish to pursue perfectionism in the presentation of the results.
◎Display of the tree-map for the web pages:
Final outputs were presented after the collation of inputs from everybody.
◎ Distribution of the notices for the journey to find the legacy: itinerary and important issues
◎ Distribution of point collection cards by the Teng’s Investigation Team
◎ Point collection cards: New Year, New Horizon
◎ Game rules:
1. There are five slots in each row. A stamp would be pressed on one slot whenever the card holder was able to meet the deadline according to the status report or able to submit their learning report on time. Upon the completion of one row, the card holder would receive a small gift from the teacher or opt to learn a new subject.
2. A point collection card with all the stamped slots can be converted into a card of honor.

[Subject]Seeking the legacy of Teresa Teng
[Date]1.4
[Recorder]Ai-ting
◎ First Stop: Long Feng Tang Cake Shop
Interview with Long Feng Tang Cake Shop and the boss baked Teresa Cake.?

◎ Second Stop: Catholic Church
Interview with Lady Wang, asking her to tell us what she knew about Teresa Teng .

◎ Third Stop: Teresa Teng’s old residence
Visiting Teresa Teng’s old residence and interviewing local residents.?

1/5 Debate

[Subject]Debate
[Date]1.5
[Recorder]Jia-ying
◎Subject:Whether or not to preserve Teresa Teng's old residence?
◎Process:Debate between pro and con
On the date of the debate,we all tried our best to defend our arguments.The content of the debate was as follows:

Con: I do not think it is necessary to preserve the place. It is useless anyway, since Teresa died already. There is no need to maintain her old residence. It is now utilized to store beef noodles. We are much better off if we tear down the building and establish a high rise on the same site instead.It is now an eye sore standing there.

Pro: The old residence is currently indeed messy and dirty. However,it may be re-opened as a tourist spot if we tidy it up and give it a new look. The residence can display relevant artifacts of Teresa Teng to visitors. By preserving Teresa Teng's old residence, we can introduce her legacy to many people. Or, we may explore the possibilities of relocating her old room to somewhere else.

Con: Teresa Teng rarely came back since she left Lujhou. Chances are she probably has felt embarrassed about how poor her family was when she was a child. Even she did not want it, so why the hell are we bothering to keep it? The place is so dirty now it stinks, because it is used as a storage room for beef noodles. It is going to be a huge task trying to clean up the mess. To save the troubles, we may as well tear down the building, since it is no use preserving it.?

Pro: We can add a great contribution to the cultural legacy to Lujhou if we can preserve Teresa Teng's old residence. In addition to her previous residence, we can enhance our tourism assets to show to the world by preserving Li Resident and Scholar's Mansions. We can tell the world that there was an international super star born in Luihou and this singer graduated from Lujhou Elementary School.

Con: If we demolish Teresa Teng's old residence, we can establish a memorial park for her instead. The beef noodle shop can find somewhere else for storage. In this way, we can kill two birds with one stone. We can rid this old building and preserve the cultural legacy left behind by Teresa Teng.

Pro: Instead of building a memorial park, we may as well relocate Teresa Teng’s old residence to the site and allow the old residence to host all the artifacts. Or, we can combine the old residence with the beef noodle shop operations by displaying Teresa Teng’s stuff in the shop. In that way, we can promote Teresa Teng to the guests to the shop. This is one of the ways to promote Teresa Teng.

1/6 Production of invitation cards

[Subject]Production of invitation cards for the trip to ChinPoSan
[Date]1.6
[Location]Computer Room A
[Recorder]Yu-jie
1. Review how to use the image processing software
2. Highlight the essential content of the invitation cards.
3. Students operating the image processing software to produce invitation cards
4. The completed files for the invitation cards stored into our ftp

1/8 Creation of short poems

[Subject] Creation of short poems
[Date]1.8
[Location]Office
[Recorder]Guan-rong Lai

1/9 Electronic drawing book

[Subject]Electronic drawing book
[Date]1.9
[Location]Computer Room A
[Recorder]Chao-yuan
1. Producing drawing books using captivate software
2. Ordering of the drawings created by the students and photos of these drawings taken
3. Telling of the story of Teresa Teng with these drawings
4. Importing these photos and adding dialogues and audio clips
5. The product converted into Flash format to be opened by other computers

1/10 Winter vacation homework

[Subject]Confirming the list of participating students and team names
[Date]1.10
[Location]Office
[Recorder]Chia-ying Wu
We planned to collate a large number of drawings during winter vacation. We would promote the campaign during the end-term week to let everybody know about Teresa Teng. We expected to reap the fruits of our promotions at the beginning of next semester.

◎ The list of winter vacation homework is as follows:

1/12 Promotion exercise

[Subject]Promotion exercise
[Date]1.12
[Location]Computer Room A
[Recorder]Lin-hua
In preparation for the Teresa Teng Week, the campaign would be promoted next week at the teachers’ morning meetings. Lin-hua would articulate the key issues, with some students holding the drawings on Teresa Teng to make a strong impression.

1/13 Production of the posters

[Subject]Production of the posters
[Date]1.13
[Location]Grade 6 activity room
[Recorder]Wen-chi

1/15 Teresa Teng Week

[Subject]Teresa Teng Week kicked start
[Date]1. 15
[Location]The whole school
[Recorder] Si-han
Key events of the promotion
1.The Teresa Teng posters were posted on the bulletin board so that all the students and teachers at the school could have an understanding of the campaign.
2. A signing petition was held at the front of the physical education facility room. Those students and teachers who wished to express their support to preserve Teresa Teng’s old residence could sign on the petition.

1/16. Booth planning. Kick-start of story telling

[Subject]406 Story telling
[Date]1.16
[Location]406 Classroom
[Recorder]Chi-hua
We told the story twice in class. The first time we told the story of Teresa Teng by referring to the drawings by the elderly students in the fifth and sixth grades; however, we stammered a lot during the process because there was no cue text on these drawings. We had to rely on Teacher Lai to make up most of our missing parts in the story. We felt really embarrassed about it.

However, with the completion of the drawing book and the previous experience of story telling with the teacher to other classes, we did a much better job for the second time. We felt a great sense of achievement and it was indeed a brilliant joy!

1/17. Promotions at the teachers' morning meetings. Booth arrangement

[Subject 1] Promotions at the teachers' morning meetings
[Date]1.17
[Time]7:50~8:30
[Location]Main office
[Recorder]Ai-ting

[Subject 2] Booth timeline & review of status reports
[Time] 12:40~1:40
[Location]Computer Room A
[Recorder]Wei-li

1/18 Promotions at the Student Rally

1/19 Signing the petition

[Subject]Signing the petition
[Date]1.19
[Location]In front of the physical education facility room
[Recorder]Bo-hsiang

For a couple of days, we started to set up the booth in front of the physical education facility room. A small exhibition on Teresa Teng emerged and it was surrounded by the beautiful voice of Teresa Teng after we used the portal CD player to play her songs. Meanwhile,we produced posters promoting our proposal to preserve Teresa Teng's old residence and hosted a signing petition. After our promotions at the teachers’morning meetings and students’ rally throughout the school, a large crowd of people rushed to our booth. We were so pleased!

The school was bustling with activities with us and the other Cyberfair team hosted a joint exhibition.

2/14* Interview with the lady owner of the bookstore

[Subject]Interview with the lady owner of the bookstore(Teresa Teng's old acquaintance)
[Date]1.20
[Location]The bookstore across from the School
[Recorder]Wei-li, Ai-ting
We interviewed the neighbor who used to live close to Teresa Teng’s family. She is also the owner of the bookstore near the School. She indicated that Teresa came from a mainland Chinese family and they somehow had the complex with local Taiwanese. In fact, Teresa did not mingle much with Taiwanese kids so she did not really know Teresa very well.

[Subject]Interview with the mayor
[Date]2.17
[Location]Town Hall
[Recorder]Pei-an
We were both excited and nervous. With our letter to the mayor and the scroll of the petition with signatures of the teachers and students who expressed their support, we went to the Town Hall to visit the mayor Li Wong. The mayor accepted our letter and petition. We explained our wish to preserve Teresa Teng’s old residence and she expressed her support. However,the old residence is located on a site that was not supposed to have such construction according to the County Government’s regulations, it seems inevitable that the building should be demolished. Therefore, it is likely that we preserve her old residence by relocating it. The mayor believed that we should preserve the old residence of Teresa Teng, as she was a super star when alive, it should be able to attract fans from overseas. This will boost the development of the tourism industry in Lujhou.

2/27 Uploading successfully

[Subject]Confirming the participating students and the team names
[Date]11.22
[Location]Computer Room D
[Recorder]Guan-rong Lai, Chia-ying Wu
The production of the website was completed. Proofreading was done. And the file was uploaded successfully to the Cyberfair's FTP. It was a perfect ending to the efforts and determination during the period of over four months.

3/1 Review & celebration

[Subject]Review and celebration
[Date]3.1
[Location]Basement of the New Peace Building
[Recorder]Si-han
1. Invitation to the headmaster and directors to join us.
2. Showing Comeback MV in memory of Teresa Teng to re-live the ordeal during the period of over four months
3. Browsing the website. Reviews and suggestions made.