1. How did your activities and research for this International Schools CyberFair Project support    standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?

Field/subject  Project

Concrete contents

Seven top learning fields

Chinese learning field

In this project, we must learn how to compose an interview draft firstly, how to interview shop keepers and customers, how to plan and propagandize the market exhibition activities and act as an exhibition guide, and make self reviews and afterthoughts on the whole project to find out our difficulties and solutions.  Convert the activity contents into letters and record them at perception log at any moment in every activity, these are helpful for us to improve our abilities of listening, speaking, reading, writing, planning and arranging in Chinese learning. 

Mathematics learning field

When we were experiencing selling vegetables and sundry goods in the market, we found that all the knowledge we learned in mathematics class came in useful.  On computational ability, we could work out correct changes for customers soon; on weight, we were able to use electronic scale for weighing eggs and green vegetables, sometimes we could even tell half a kilogramme by our sense, we began to apply feeling of quantity, such actual abilities let us feel learning is substantial!

Social learning field

We obtained different understandings and cognitions of traditional market through this in-depth visit of Luchou Market, and we knew a lot of unbeknown deep feelings and affections in the traditional market through the interviews of shop keepers.  Therefore we would like to hold an exhibition for exploring market in order to reserve traditional market, and endeavor to introduce it to every child in schools and combine the propaganda of local radio station to let people in Luchou know more about beauty and truth of Luchou Market, and then they would be willing to walk into traditional market. 

We found through this research that the difference derived from the changes of environmental transition, human characteristics and time caused loss and regret of many local cultures.  Therefore we learned to make progess or findout solutions by our own strength, and develop the abilities of critical thought and valuation from which.

Art and human culture learning field

In this Cyberfair project, we applied visual arts and performance, and we made propaganda posters and story drafts, we performed drama and designed webpage etc., and we occupied the position of little reviewer in the market drawing collection competition.   Our aesthetic feeling and practice were promoted through these art activities, and we obtained more key abilities.

Nature and life technology learning field

 Through visiting various regions: such as Tamshui Old Market, Huannan Wholesale Market, Fruit andVegetables Marketing Center and Songchiang Market, different market surveys enabled us to apply abilities of observing, enquiring, planning, arranging, teamwork and harmonious coexistence.  We also learned to solve difficulties through the course of communication and analysis, and analyze and sort out the information collected by technology resource, and then we could find the learning interest of initiative probe and independent thinking.

Synthetic activity learning field

We deeply felt the significance of Luchou Market and local culture through this project, and we could express our opinions and apply our methods to observing and thinking how to create different development for traditional market, and plan an ideal market combining modern times with tradition.

Six top subjects

Information education

In the course of research, we found that our abilities of basic computer operation and searching data were obviously improved, we could assuredly abide by the copyright when selecting pictures, all the webpage required photos were from team members and modified by computers.

Environmental education

Sanitary issue is the main reason for decline of traditional market, therefore in the course of this research, we regarded how to improve the environment of traditional market as one of the subjects of the research.  In the course of seeking and visiting modern supermarkets, Song Chiang Market and South-Mun Market and putting forward proposals for problem solving, our sense of belonging, sense of identification and sense of participation to our hometown were increased.

  2. What information tools & technologies did you used to complete your CyberFair project?

Tools

Usage
mp3

Recording the interview, carrying files

Internet

Searching related information, sending email, transmitting files

Digital camera

Taking photos of various events, scenes, and paintings

Digital camcorder

Recording the public hearing, performance, and interview

Image capture card

Capture the recorded images of events and interviews to the computer

Printer

Printing data, posters, cards

Telephone, cell phone

Communicating with interviewees and team members

USB, DVD-RW

Storing related information, recording to DVD

Applications

Namo-for creating webpages, PhotoImpact-for image processing, SwitshMax-for creating animations, Microsoft Excel—for creating questionnaire and charts, Microsoft Word-typing the information and log, Microsoft powerpoint—creating the presentation

 3.  In what ways did you act as "ambassadors" and spokespersons for your CyberFair   project both on-line and in person?

 

 

           (1) collect drawings from teachers and students of whole school 

     We hope the teachers and students of whole school can give more observations on food markets through collecting drawings, and we hope they can draw what they think a food market should be like, let the original close relation between market and our lives become closer!

(2)introduce our tied shops

 We visited tied shops to know in depth the role shops are playing in the market, we knew the relation between food markets and people's lives through interviews, and we endorsed the food market for its deeply contained people's human cultural feelings!

 

　

　

    (3) Blog

        At the very start of activity, our teacher applied for a blog for us, in which we can have discussions, place records and photos, this blog is our secret garden too, it contains teacher's advice, project log, our mutual concerns and parents' encouragement!  We believe that people who have the luck to see our research and struggling course will like our food market and prefer stories in the food market

(4)Story performance during morning assembly

 

         At the end of activity, we decided to write a story based on our achievements and act for all schoolmates! Ah! People in market are virtuous as well as passionate, if only everybody could have an opportunity to make friends with food market.

   (5) Collect drawings and exhibit campus market

      We collected drawings from the whole school, and we held a campus market exhibition at the end of term. We found that the Luchou Market exhibition attracted media to come for interviews!  Strong human interest and warm concern in the food market always so deeply attract us, no wonder that a shop keeper told us that someone often came back to the food market for visitation though he had already moved to another place. Luchou Jhunshan Market is really a nice place worth while people all over the world to come and walk about here and take a look at it.

  (6) Accept press interview, let Jhunshan Market emit brilliant rays

     In order to let more people see our research, we contacted alderman Gui-lan Huang and local media Quan Lian Cable TV and TWT Cable TV other than propagandizing our market on campus.  It's really a sense of success to see us talking about our own project and the campus market with our meticulous care on television, we believe that there will be more people to see Jhunshan Market because of media's report! 

 

  4. What has been the impact of your project on your community?

  〈1〉 Impact on teachers and students of this school

   In the course of research, we used multiple modes including collecting drawings, exhibition and acting to present the close relation between food market and our lives, teachers and students of the whole school actively participated in our activities.  Nearly fifty classes had come to our exhibition gallery for visit according to the scheduled visit time during the five-day exhibition.  We prepared common food and commodities when collecting drawings, all students were pleasantly surprised, and we bought several kilograms of rock sugar and packed them into small packets for students whose drawings were not selected to thank them for their support.  Thus the feedback forms we received just flew to us as snowflakes, teachers and students overwrote their favor in food market and great admiration for the exhibition. We would be pleased to see teachers and students of the whole school obtain further recognition of Luchou Market which is close but strange to them. 

 

 〈2〉Close the relation between school and community

     Due to our endorsement of market was one-week exhibition, parents and people of community would also enter our exhibition gallery for curiousness when they passed by, and they would say hello to us and encourage us to observe things requiring for attentions in our community.  We felt that the residential is like a big classroom in fact, it let me obtain different inspiration and experience from people and things in it, especially when we went to the food market for surveys and interviews, there were always some residents or people in the market saying, "Luchiang Elementary School is truly nice! Let children come to the market for study!", "This is right, some students don't know what eggs and duck eggs are like yet even when they entered university!"

〈3〉Increase food market's persistent life

      Although in ordinary people's mind, the food market is full of noise and mess, but we found that the food market actually had a value worth to be reserved and cherished through two-year research.  Because most of shop keepers in the food market are outgoing and passionate, especially they are always able to observe people's words and deeds.  They contacted various people in the market, they have a great many precious life philosophy, especially they have a virtuous and munificent heart and seldom argue with customers, even actively help people they often contact.  We saw human brilliance in the market, and we learned how to get along with others and deal with affairs, the food market, temple, old street and veteran are a place deserving our yearn as well as a place deserving us to go close time after time and year after year.  By the hand of introduction of Cyberfair, we hope that people all over the world can know that as a matter of fact, the food market is ordinary and precious, whereas market stories go on day after day, we are the one who had recorded the stories for it.

  5. Intellectual properties

    We were researching the food market which was closest to our lives, so when we invited a shop keeper for interview, we would tell him our research mission and we would present research achievements by photos in advance.  All interview outcomes were firsthand data, besides photos taken by ourselves, some conversions of old photos had been approved by authorships.

      

6. Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises

 

(1) Believe myself that I can do better

    Istill remember the first time I learned to directly record my meeting perception on the computer, my fingers seemed to be out of my control, and I used to write a composition on draft paper before writing on composition book, but now it should be input into the computer, all we could do was just stared blankly facing the computer.  I've never thought that I could input my work records smoothly by beating the keyboard.  My thoughts seem to be clearer and more fluent. No wonder Teacher Chiang said "your work record titles can not only catch the emphases of entire record, but also become more original!" Being in the encouragement and research process all the time, every one of our team believes that we are bound to have chances to be better in the future.

(2) We found every story of market is precious life philosophy

        Since the beginning of research on the traditional market in community, we had experienced a period of puzzlement and incompatible flounder, due to everybody thought the food market was too ordinary without any research value!  Fortunately, we found that almost every shop keeper in the food market had his own living means through our careful observation and over-absorption of mind.  And the most identical point is that all of them have positive and optimistic attitude, facing their own vocation with responsibilities, endeavoring to struggling, being clement and polite to customers and create their own sky at last.  All these people are life model deserving us to study, we become friends because of interviews, also due to on-the-spot experience, we treasure up these precious life experiences.

(3) Solidarity is power, build neat and comfortable home together

　　I still remember the first time when I walked into Jhunshan Market, Ms. Wu reminded us not to cover nose even though the smell of market made us uncomfortable, we should learn to respect people in the market.  However, when we entered the market, it really gave us a sense of that gloom, wet and dirty!  Afterwards we became more familiar with shop keepers, and we seemed to be accustomed to the smell of food market.  But only when Ms. Wu and Ms. Chang took us to Taipei public market, we found that the traditional market could be as bright as supermarket.  After interviewed we knew that they had founded a Market Autonomy Management Committe of their own market. For example, in South-Mun Market, the cooked food booths were arranged on the second floor, and the ground floor is for pork, fish, green vegetables and meat etc. We envied their ceramic tile floor and bright illumination very much. With such astonishment and envious mood, we believe that the shop keepers will draw together to make efforts for Jhunshan Market, and Jhunshan Market must has its reason for continuous existence, and it will become a home operated by shop keepers together.

 7. Contributions:

Participant

Work item

Percentage

Students

1. Study out project title and program

2. Hold sectional conference

3. Fill in research progress report

4. Gather and sort out data

5. Select interview object

6. Study out interview draft

7. Prepare propaganda periphery (design poster, study out propaganda draft)

8. Personal experience of market

9. Make briefing of market story

10. Propagandize, interview, draw, tell story, act drama

11. Lay out exhibition gallery and guide

12. Plan and arrange visit time and class

13. Design invitation card

14. Collect photos and pictures and sort out, convert and scan them

15. Make grateful card

16. Photograph, video and record actitivity process

17. Copy interview verbatim draft

18. Sort out and analyze interview information, make personal growth record

19. File various information

20. Sort out and compose various activity logs and perceptions

21. Make webpage

50%

Teachers 

1. Study out and amend research direction of project

2. Assist sign up

3. Analyze activity flow, supervise activity course

4. Contact relevant units and shop keepers to be interviewed

5. Supervise propaganda draft, interview draft and  story briefing

6. Supervise division of team members' duty

7. Plan and arrange different administration procedures

8. Relevant expertise course

9. Photograph, video and record

10. Various activity record learning forms

11. Webpage instruction and viewing amendment

12. Computer technology coach

13. Lead everybody to place of interview and propaganda

14. Information equipment and technical support

15. Nonscheduled cooking

30%

Vendors in market

Allow interviews and provide data

10%

Luchou business circle

Chairman Guo

Allow interviews and provide old photos

Taipei County assemblyman

Ms. Gui-lan Huang

Allow an interview, provide related data, contact TWT Cable TV and Quan Lian Cable TV to conduct on-the-spot shot and interview

TWT Cable TV

Conduct on-the-spot interview and report of food market exhibition activity

Quan Lian Cable TV

Conduct on-the-spot interview and report of food market exhibition activity

 Yilan County Renwen Elementary School

Principal Yang

Assist visit and interview of Ilan fishery harbour

Luchiang Elementary School Dean of academic affairs, Dean of student affairs, Dean of general affairs, counsellor and teachers of all grades

Assist supervising market exhibition activity

10%

 

 
All students inLuchiang Elementary School

ssist and sponsor goods visit and exhibition in exhibition gallery and write feedback form
Luchiang Elementary School Principal Chen

Assist and sponsor goods exhibited

Professor Da-hsiu Wang

Supervise research approach

Ms. Mei-hong Lin

Help team members with computer problems

Mr. Lai (Ms. Shu-li’s husband)

Provide refreshments and midnight snack

Parents, shop keepers and people of community

Accept invitation interview