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1. Objectives
and purpose:
Education
is the learning process
that opens up
students¡¦ potential,
develop students¡¦
adaptation,
and
improve the
living environment. In
participating in the
Cyberfair
project, we allow every
member of
our team
to grow and prosper,
and practically carry on the development of the
students.
After the
research topic has been determined, the guidance
instructors begin horizontal and vertical contact
with the community through communication and
discussion. This gives everyone a sense of a sacred
heritage mission to explore Truku traditional food
culture. The process combines school curriculum,
visiting elders, experience cooking, community
interviews, and information technology applications,
so that the complete research process and content
can be completely shown in detail.
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2.
Educational content:
After
completing this web page report, we discovered that
isn¡¦t the principle and content described in the
currently promoted education policies (Grade 1-9
Curriculum) the same as the process experienced
personally by the team members? Excerpt
clarification as below.
(1)
Human sentiments:
The team
will
first understand
their own abilities
and to
respect and
appreciate
the cultural
difference between
different
qualities and
different age.
(2)
Integration capabilities:
To break
the
existing
classroom learning
pattern and take the students to
walk about in the community. We do not
want seriousness
and standards, broken
knowledge and memorized memories. What
we want is a
rational
and
emotional
attitude, an
integrated
unity of
practicality and humanity.
(3)
Democratic accomplishment:
Through interviews we raise our
expressive and communication abilities,
through independent thinking we
cultivate students to write down
interview records and upload their
experience. Through team division of
labor we complete our duties, work hard
to pass down cultural heritage, actively
participate with social culture
activities, and develop law-abiding
habits by understanding intellectual
property.
(4) Local
and the international awareness:
Marking
culture from the perspective of
educational activities,
we create a
local
style and
culturally innovative
learning environment. We share this
experience with other countries by going
through this
thematic
study and
participating in this
Cyberfair.
(5)
Lifelong learning:
During the continuous
interview and
recording we gradually understood
and learned how to
take the
initiative in
finding
information,
accumulate data,
ask questions
and solve problems
through
a
combination
of
information
media
and language,
allowing the results of the learning to
gain a preservation
and
continuation
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3. How did
your activities and research for this International
Schools CyberFair Project support standards,
required coursework and curriculum standards?
(1)
Language areas:
The team members raised their listening,
speaking, reading, and writing skills
when the students collected information
on the internet and organized them into
the mental maps of the interview outline
and when participating in actual
interview written documentation.
Furthermore, the club gives priority to
the study of Aboriginal Truku culture,
the post interview food ingredients,
dishes, and tribal vocabulary is
organized into an online learning
website. Learning is through
information network system and
multi-ethnic language communication and
contact, and can be said to be an active
course for the language area learning
ability index.
(2)
Social fields and combined activities:
In this Cyberfair
project the students,
through the internet and interviews, can
simply describe
the living
environment from past to present and the
migration of the
Sinbaiyang
Tribe. Students
can
also
describe
the food
ingredients¡¦ name and
location of the restaurants in Truku
areas and in the vicinity near the
school.
From the records of the interviewer, we
better understand each village¡¦s unique
cuisine and the relationship of
community interaction, and the
background and causes for prosperity and
decline. While experiencing the
cuisines, the students and the chef
rationally communicate and understand
what kind of meaning or story these
flavors and foods represent, and can
mutually respect and adapt to the
different local dishes. These learning
process could not be experienced or
participated in the classroom, thus this
them research process is the best
example of a course in social area
learning.
(3)
Information Education:
Each club member has been trained in
small group cooperation to find the
suitable website sources,
audio and video
recording files of completed
interviews, downloading and reading
files, and transfer or
establish simple a file
library and
manage
information.
Members can fully understand network use
and basic internet operation (including
operating the Facebook community, send
and receive email, navigate browser,
using ftp). In the course of the
interview, members can use the software
to edit Chinese transcripts, proceed
with typing and editing, and can combine
text, pictures, art, etc., so student
and teacher can cooperate and complete
web page production.
(4)
Family
education:
Students participating
in Cyberfair
project can get
to know common
traditional
foods,
ingredients, and
make simple
meals
and
arrange
extra-curricular
activities to
share with others
their
favorite foods. In
the small group cooking process they
know the importance
of personal
food hygiene.
From the interview process with food and
beverage operators, they got to know
traditional Truku holiday meals and food
culture. These operators also use their
knowledge of cuisine and tourism to
affirm and express themselves, and to
develop even more creative career
development.
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4. What information
tools & technologies did you used to complete your
CyberFair project?
(1)
Social networking sites:
Through the application of Facebook
social networking sites and the Hualien
County Education Office Chilai network
teacher¡¦s social networking site, this
became the communication and knowledge
management tool for teacher and student
team member contact. This provides a
third person encouragement and
suggestion for better improvement prior
to announcement on the research website.
(2)
Camcorders and digital cameras:
It is a great tool for record the
community going
on. In order to let
the children
make full use of
digital
camcorders
the
school
applied for
second-hand
digital cameras
from the
public service
platform foundation,
so that each student
has
one and
makes full use of
the
recordings.
(3)
Scanners:
This can scan the
students¡¦ pictures
and reference
images, and is very
important for the completeness of the
information archive.
This school has 3 A4 size scanners, 2
flat scanner, and 1 reel (suction type)
scanner. Especially concerning the
reel-type scanner, students¡¦ manuscript
or drawing sketches can be copied and
transferred to PDF file. This greatly
benefits subsequent data validation and
first-hand information downloading.
(4)
Voice recorders:
Record the complete
oral
content of the
interview subject and an
important tool for
compiling post interview written records
of
the visit.
(5)
Computer
Software:
Web page production
software, mind
mapping software,
image processing
software,
server, music production
software, music
conversion
software, Doz
transcription software,
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5. In what
ways did you act as ¡§ambassadors¡¨ and spokespersons
for your CyberFair project both on-line and in
person.
The
parents and interview subjects all support the
school in organizing such meaningful curriculum for
each outside visit. They also feel personally and
mentioned that their culture must be passed down.
Because the elder generation are illiterate, have
lower educational attainment, or health issues, they
cannot take the initiative in bring up the
historical and cultural past. Today's young people
are also alienated from the identity of the
aboriginal culture, so the schools guidance in the
children¡¦s systematic interview is absolutely
correct. Of course, the children are the group with
the most potential in the 4 generations, and it is
hoped that through the school¡¦s courses, they can
have the ability to describe the things that
happened in their own home town or village. We are
a member of the Sinbaiyang Cultural Club, the small
vanguard of cultural heritage. We will continue
this kind of work. If there is close interaction
between the community and school, the local culture
will not disappear.[up]
6. What has
been the impact of your project on your community?
These few
years there has already been a set base for students
that continuously participate in the culture
exploration courses. Because our club changes ever
six months, and some students want to learn other
club¡¦s courses, so they will give up participation
half way in that year¡¦s research. There are also
some peer influences. What do you guys do in the
Sinbaiyang Cultural Club? Computer classes are fresh
in the beginning, but later report organization is
very painful, so in the past few years almost
three-fifths of the students leave. But this year
is different, because there is a group of students
that still seriously want to complete this
meaningful research activity. At least we see in
them the insistent attitude in accomplish something.[up]
6.
Intellectual properties
Whenever
we finish an interview, we will try to organize our
own experience report. Although it is only a short
article, but we don¡¦t feel it¡¦s an easy task. It is
hard to make an actual report with just imagination.
The teachers even did some educating on intellectual
property opportunities, which allowed us to
understand the significance of intellectual
property. Of course we were really careful when
using references online. All the contents such as
text, photographs, illustrations, music, video
animation, or other material etc. will be marked
with the source. To respect the interview subjects¡¦
authorization to use the information, we will attach
the source of the information and consent
authorization.[up]
7.
Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises
We found
that the interview subjects all have a common
trait. That is, to insist on what they want to so.
When their accumulated wisdom, is being discovered
and respected by us, the sense of awe that they show
the ancestral spirits and the confidence, courage,
and professional attitude could not be seen in
ordinary life. They emit the energy of lifelong
knowledge, and awe us into stepping towards the
hallow hall of culture and society.
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Reference: Grade 1-9 Curriculum Ability index
listing
http://www.hyes.tyc.edu.tw/nine/
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