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Category participated in
CyberFair:
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Historical Landmarks
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Location of our ˇ§local
communityˇ¨:
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We live
in an old neighborhood next to Dadaochen, old
iancheng Circle and Zhongshan North Road. This
area is filled with many historical buildings
and cultures of great diversity. This area was
once flourished with commerce and also the main
traffic center for people migrating from south
Taiwan to stay. Just by walking on the main
streets or passing through small alleys, you
find yourself entering a community of mixture of
the old and the new, as well as full of
unexpected surprises.
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Brief introduction of our
project
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The red
building of Rixin Primary School is almost a
century old. The century-old red building, with
the beautifully arched double hallways, was
built with red bricks during the Japanese
colonial period. While in the past the ordinary
way was to tear down the old buildings and build
a totally different new one, the red building
had been decided to be preserved and renovated.
For this reason, we start from our own school,
the red building of Rixin, to do lots of
research and interview. Further, we walk out of
the campus to extend our reach to old buildings
around this neighborhood, visiting historical
buildings in Dadaocheng, Zhonshan north road,
and other red buildings in Taipei. During each
and every visit to these historical
architectures, we try to find out more about
them and understand the meaning of preserving
and protecting them.
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Our internet access:
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There are
two computer classrooms here at Rixin. Each of
them is equipped with lots of computers with
broadband access to internet. Sometimes when the
computer classrooms are occupied and not
available for individual usage, we could only
use them during lunch breaks or on holidays for
our project.
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Obstacles encountered:
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1. Time
pressure: During the execution of this project,
we need to work together for incorporating
information and photos, doing group discussions,
working out the major theme and structures and
so on. As a result, the time issue really
intense because of the winter vacation when we
couldnˇ¦t get together at that time. Also, we
need to learn to make web pages from scratch.
Even we started many interviews prior to
participating this CyberFair, we still suffered
from lack of time.
2. Learning about knowledge of historical
buildings: In the beginning of listening to the
introductions offered by architects and tour
guides, we had difficulties understanding what
they have said. Later, our teacher started to
help us collecting information about historical
buildings and guide us step by step to grow to
understand more about the buildings. Gradually,
with more visits and guided tours, we get to
know and understand what they are all about.
3. Information collection: Before paying actual
visits to these buildings, we are asked to
collect information about the background of the
buildings and other necessary information.
Although searching for information from internet
is quite easy, choosing proper information and
eliminating the unnecessary one are more
complicated. We learn from this process to
determine what information is suitable for our
needs.
4.Interview in action: Before each interview, we
have to list out our questions and check with
each other. We also need to learn necessary
etiquettes and do rehearsals. But when it comes
to the time of taking real action, we are all
nervous. Different interview requires different
real-time reactions. Itˇ¦s almost like taking
tests. We also practice how to make appointments
with others. Teacher helps us make lists of
questions and think of the things we want to say
beforehand. Making appointments over telephone
is even more difficult than doing interviews!
but we learn a lot and realize how much effort
needed behind all the arrangements of these
tours.
5. Compiling data after visits: After the
visits, we have to go through the complicated
parts of writing feedbacks and compiling
contents of interviews. Writing feedbacks are
difficult in the beginning. But later on, we
gradually get some clues of how to compile our
thoughts. One other difficulty is dictating from
the content recorded from interviews. We learn
to pay attention to recording quality and using
backup recorders.
6. Integration of different themes: Because we
are not just focusing on single historical
building for introduction, discussions over
themes becomes quite important. During the
process, teacher shows us how to make tree
diagrams, in order to distinguish different
relations and connections of each theme.
7. Division of work: Because we are afraid of
insufficient time for finishing every part of
the project, also because of the winter
vacation, we try hard to divide all the work for
everybody to work at. This allows us to do the
parts at home during vacation. Also, we arrange
time for everyone to get online at the same
time, so that we could discuss it together.
8. Website making techniques: It takes lots of
techniques making web pages and animations.
Through lots of mistakes, we finally get to
speed up the typing speed, understand the theory
of using different layers for making pictures,
realize that the file names should all be
English and etc.
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Conclusion:
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During this project, we realize that
there are so many treasures around us in our lives and neighborhood. Although
the historical buildings are solemnly quiet, but with renovation and proper
observation, we get to discover their vitality and status in history and modern
life.
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