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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. [up]

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 value.[up]

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. [up]


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, etc.[up]

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.  [up]

 

Reference: Grade 1-9 Curriculum Ability index listing  http://www.hyes.tyc.edu.tw/nine/

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