When we did a background check on students, they reported that they could only surf the Internet and type. So our extra-curriculum course was designed to teach students to use digital devices and design webpage.

Advisors utilize lunch time to teach children to use digital cameras and digital recorders during the opening hours of the computer room. They learned to transfer data via these technological tools.

During the process of the interviews and the experience activities, the interviewees were only a few chiefs of the tribe so the relevant information was limited and translation was also needed.

We tried to record the interviews through digital camcorders and Dictaphones and asked the parents or the senior citizens in the community questions when we were organizing the data after the interviews. Whenever the seniors described relevant items’ names, items’ parts or operation, we would ask them to use body language or repeat expression to leave a stronger impression.

It took at least four months for students to research and study topics for Cyberfair project, and to allocate appropriate time, human resource and material resources.

Our school already included Cyberfair as one of our school events. In order to learn components of local culture, both curriculum design and teachers’ professional background were devoted to achieve this end. In addition to first hand information obtained from interviewing aboriginal seniors, Mr. Kuei-Shih Tien of Seediq Cultural Studio, also supported and assisted us.

This time was a presentation of the research work. The research team should establish a correct attitude towards the research. The research included meeting discussions, work arrangement, data collecting, information device operating, information digitalizing and organizing, video processing, and web pages creation. This was a broad research so dilemmas sometimes happened when they could not be coped with by general teaching environments and learning contexts.

We understood the importance of having the team prepared and to gaining supports from the school’s administration departments when it came to organizing the school, the community, the students, and the volunteers to work together. Without being prepared, the work could not be completed due to laziness; without the administrative support from the school, it was not possible for the teachers and students to complete the work successfully. Therefore, we spent a great amount of time communicating with the community and the teams whereas the school was in charge of relevant administrative works to make the entire process successful.

During the research period, some difficulties emerged as result of poor association with college volunteer workers. There were two reasons: (1) Our school was not fully in control of the project, which made volunteer workers aimless; (2) Volunteer workers had limited time and could not fully participate.

We got in touch with the community long before the project started and told the volunteer workers about our schedule. Hence, they had plenty of time planning. Fortunately, the deadline of web works was due at the end of the winter vacation. We have some lead time for the final sprint.

Assigning works to the team members was the key to diversified data. As the proverb goes, “two heads are better than one”. It has been very important for all the team members to work together but take their own responsibilities.

We understood the significance of carefully reading through the data found on-line, digitalizing data which matched the theme or relevant topics and providing connections through FrontPage software or the campus website server to systemize the data through major topics description or hyperlinks to serve as references for future researches relevant to the community.

This was the second time our school participated in Cyberfair; however, the schedule was not always followed because it was difficult to find a balance between the courses and the activities. The failure of regular records of the time of uploading schedule reports in particular, would affect the following schedules and the complete presentation of the entire work.

Regarding the control of the schedule, we uploaded the schedule form to the web site to clearly notify the team members of the assignments of each stage. Another solution was the on-campus server; the written data were collected and processed by the team members and uploaded by the plan executer.