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Category: 3. Businesses and
Organizations
Description of Our Community：
Wun De Elementary School, located in Dachu
Community,Fengyuan Township,Changhua
County, is situated on
Bagua Plateau, at an altitude of360 m,
which is the highest tribal settlement in the entire county. Due to its high
altitude, many TV and broadcast companies have set up transmitting sites in this
area to enhance the reception quality. We would pass by TTV central
transmitting site and BCC Fenyuang Radio Room on our way to school. The south
ofDachu Village, which is near the county boundary,
is where the central transmitting sites of CTV and CTS locate.
About a decade ago, BCC started a Better Community
Plan, which has greatly improved the local community environment and provided
scholarships to nearby schools. Near the BCC Central Transmitting Site, Wun De
Elementary School has enjoyed much of BCC’s help. The top 3 students in every
class could be awarded with scholarships every semester, which has encouraged
our students to work hard. The senior managers of BCC would also participate in
local or campus activities whenever there is one; moreover, BCC granted a land
for the construction of the Little Genie Park in the south-west side of our
campus. The contributions of BCC have been deeply appreciated.
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BCC Chuanghua Fengyuan Station is just on the other side of the wall of Wun De Elementary School
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WunDe Broadcasting Explore Team
exploring Fengyuan Station antenna facility.
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Broadcast main control room
system
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Summary
of Our Project :
Far-reaching world of broadcasting － “The Broadcasting Corporation of China” is our project
theme. Through field visits, interviews with the hosts, and various activities
organized by BCC, we aim to gain a further understanding of the history,
framework, contributions, changes, and reforms of “BCC”, which was established
in 1992. Through BCC’s channels, such as i Like radio, News Network, iRadio,Formosa
Network, Country Network, Oversea Network, and Hakka Network, we come to
understand the influences of BCC on the cultural communication and people’s
life, as well as its past and present as the No. 1 radio station inTaiwan.
To conduct a profound research, WunDe Broadcasting
Explore Team started from BCC Fenyuang Radio Room next to the campus, visited
theNational Radio
Museum in MingHsiung,Chiai, BCC Taichung, and BCC’s Taipei
Headquarters, and even participated in the “Little Broadcast Journalist Camp”.
BCC has played a crucial role in the society, made significant contributions
and served the function of creating a better society as it provides the public
with information on entertainment, knowledge, governmental policies and
campaigns. How will BCC respond to the rise of TV, computers and mobile phones?
How can BCC create a breakthrough and become popular again? These are all the topics
that WunDe Broadcasting Explore Team will discuss in this project.
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After the 921 Earthquake, BCC reporters were the first ones on the scene.
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BCC’ s HQ in New Park period
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On September 17, 2001, Hurricane Nari severely damaged Taipei
City . Songjiang Building was flooded and the power went out. BCC used its own
generator for lighting and broadcasting to continue to bring the news about the
damage.
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Taipei HQ transmission system using microwave to broadcast
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Our network environment:
There are two bidirectional broadbandlines of2M optical fiber powered
by Hinet which link to academic network and the outlying school respectively.
School
network: there is a computer classroom where there are twenty computers inside
for student use in our school. All the computers in our school are online,
which enables us to discuss, look for, and print out data and documents online.
Every staff in our school is equipped with a laptop and everyone is capable of
operating basic computer techniques and editing webpages.
Personal
network at home: our school is located in the suburbs ofChanghua County,
hence we lack information resources. Only some of the members have personal
computers at home and only few of them can connect the ADSL internet.
Therefore, most work is done at school.
Campus
wireless network: the campus wireless network in our school makes it possible
for students to search for relevant information freely through their PDA or
laptops.
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The well
equipped computer
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Unbounded digital environment- wireless broadband campus
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The well
equipped computer classroom
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Problems We Had To Overcome :
The major problem we faced in this project
is the enormous amount of information, due to the following reasons:
1)BCC
is the largest and oldest broadcasting corporation inTaiwan. Many information and
stories of them deserve to be revealed and told.
2)It
is a tough challenge to guide the readers to understand relevant knowledge of
broadcast for that the knowledge about it is extremely abundant and
professional.
3) Although
our school is an outlying school and is relatively deficient in resources, the
members of Wun De Broadcasting Explore Team are energetic and aggressive in
learning and researches. We visited the Taiwan Broadcasting Station of BCC in
Taichung, attended the Little Broadcast Journalist Camp, visited the National
Radio Museum in Minghsiung, Chiayi County, toured all the broadcasting frequency
channels of BCC in Taipei headquarters, interviewed the famous broadcasting
host, Mei-ren Yu, and visited the BBC Changhua Fenyuan Radio Room which has
been the neighbor of Wun De Elementary School for 36 years. It is really hard
to present faithfully such diversified activities of visiting and learning.
In order to present our results comprehensively
to the readers, all kinds of problems that we have faced must be solved and
overcome. The table below indicates the problems that our team has faced and
our solutions to them:
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The information about BCC
is so massive that it is hard to choose and edit the contents.
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1.
Trying to present the contents of BCC by illustrations and brief introductions
so that readers can know BCC in the simplest way.
2. Dividing the history of BCC into four periods in
accordance with where the head office is located to introduce the development
of BCC. |
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The relevant knowledge of
broadcast is so abundant and professional that readers can not understand it
easily.
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1. Consulting the contents from the books published
by Communication Society (edited by BCC) to introduce broadcasting knowledge.
2. Presenting the common senses of broadcasting by Q
& A illustrations so that readers can understand it more easily.1. |
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It is hard to present
faithfully the diversified activities of learning and visiting in BCC.
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1. Putting emphasis on the digital images and
illustrations of the visiting and learning activities that students have
participated and attaching students’ learning feedback along.
2. Presenting faithfully the interviews with the chief
of Taiwan Broadcasting Station, Chen-chin, Chen, and the famous broadcasting
host, Mei-ren, Yu. Recording precisely their opinions and experiences. |
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Our school is located in
the suburbs, hence is relatively lacking in information resources.
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1. The school tries to provide a complete
environment of information.
2. Seeking for resources from colleges (e.g. the
computer and information networking center ofNational Chi
Nan University)
3. Requesting BCC sincerely for providing all kinds of
information assistance. |
Our Project Sound Bite :
The BCC Fenyuan Radio Room has been the
neighbor of Wun DeElementary School
for many years. It stretches along fromYuanlin
Township, the foot ofTsaotun Mountain,
to the highway ofChanghua
County. The red
alternating with white tall towers of the Generator mark the position of it and
it seems that the students in Wun DeElementary School
can touch the amplitude of it simply by stretching their hands out of the
windows. In the end of each semester, the top three students in every class
will be awarded with scholarships from BCC. BCC has awarded these scholarships
to our school for many years, which has encouraged our students to work hard.
As a result of this, our interests in exploring BCC have been aroused.
In the visiting processes, we have gained
the knowledge which is not taught in class and some of us have even fallen in
love with broadcasting. Among our members, some wish to be broadcasting hosts
and some wish to be journalists in the future, which we could not imagine at
first. When interviewing the famous host, Mei-ren Yu, we were impressed by her
humor, genuineness, and friendly talking. She told us, “Experiences are very
important. One can gain precious experiences in each kind of work and one will
definitely make use of them in the future.” We will keep her valuable words in
mind and no matter what we will do in the future we will fulfill it responsibly
and earnestly. The interview with her is our most valuable visiting experience.
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Interview with host Mei-ren Yu
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Radio program topic -
People are brought together if they are so fated
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Radio program topic – features of Wun De Elementary School
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