CyberFair Project ID: 2927

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International Schools CyberFair Project Narrative
Title: National First-Grade historical structure--Lu-Kang Long-Shan Temple
Category: 6. Historical Landmarks
URL: http://gsh.taiwanschoolnet.org/gsh2003/2927/index.htm
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School: Wen-Kei elementary school
    Lu-Kang town, Chang-Hua county, , Taiwan

5 students, ages 11~12 worked together to complete this CyberFair project on March 31, 2003. They have participated in CyberFair in the following year(s): 2003

Classes and Teachers: Mr.Huang Ching-Cheng, Mrs.Shiu Shiou-Dai,

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Our School's Web Site: http://www.wkes.chc.edu.tw

Project Overview

1. Description of Our Community

The east of Lu-Kang is Shiou-Shuei town: the west is Taiwan Strait: the south is Fu-Shing town and the north is Ho-Mei town and Shian-Shi town. It’s two kilometers away from the coast and the measure of it is about 40square kilometers. It’s a long narrow district.

Lu-Kang is a famous cultural old town in Taiwan. It used to be the gateway of mid-Taiwan and the second old town only second to Tainan. We can see the prosperous Lu-Kang from the old saying;” The first one is Fu; the second one is Lu and the third is Meng-Jia”. But now, without the illustrious position, it still possesses plenty of historical estate and it’s also a town worth going on a deep trip.

2. Summary of Our Project

In the past, Lu-Kang is prosperous in economy, so people’s life was very stable. Therefore, Lu-Kang had folk custom skills, south and north band music, literature, penmanship, painting, and tea snacks, etc. Moreover, religious belief brought so many graceful building of temples that Lu-Kang had become a town, which had the most and oldest temples in Taiwan. The most valuable of all is that Lu-Kang Long-Shan Temple, which is judged by the Domestic Department, the National First Grade historical structure. Lu-Kang Long-Shan Temple has serious style, splendid scale, beautiful carvings and colorful paintings. It’s called “The Forbidden City in Taiwan” and “The Art Palace of Taiwan.

3. Our Computer and Internet Access

A. Percentage of students using the Internet at home:more than 50%

B. Number of workstations with Internet access in the classroom:2-3

C. Connection speed used in the classroom:dedicated connection

D. Number of years our classroom has been connected to the Internet:more than 6

E. Additional comments concerning your computer and/or Internet access (Optional):

Most of our work is finished at computer classroom in the school and we transmitted our materials and pictures via PC and ADSL.

4. Problems We Had To Overcome

(1) Thanks for the helps from the teachers, local experts, Lu-Kang News Report, and the library of NCUE.

(2) The ability of research

The school teachers took much time teaching the pupils, who touched the research for the very first time, to conduct work..

(3) The ability of using the computer:

To enter the internet is ok, but to design a web is still a tough job.

(4) Disasters of the research:

Long-Shan temple suffered 921 earthquake on 1999/09/21, and was seriously damaged. It resulted in obstacles of the research.

(5) Lacking of time:

We take good use of our holidays to finish the research.

5. Our Project Sound Bite

By way of the topic research, we love Lu-Kang more and we even make up our mind doing relative studies in the nearly future constantly. Let more people come to visit this fair, cultural, and old town.

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

The present textbooks are more conforming to the modern needs than in the past except in the teaching materials about hometown. By way of such topic research, we can collect the ideas about our hometown and combine the information technology to take advantage of communicative convenience of the internet to rebuild the sense of humanness. Therefore, the research is not only important , but also helpful to teaching. It is a good beginning.

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Project Elements

1) What information tools & technologies did you used to complete your CyberFair project?

We use the technologies like below in our project: (1)Oral interview (2)Internet (3)Books and magazines (4)Recorder (5)Digital camera (6)Scanner and printer (7)Telephone and fax (8)Software

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

◎ The teachers selected ambassadors from more than one thousand students in the school.

◎ We e-mail to inform other relative organizations to provide help.

◎ To participate the internet exhibition of Changhua county and show the achievement of the research to the whole nation.

◎ The research encourages more and more students and teachers to echo to the exhibition. To finish the task, we are all ambassadors, surely including the local experts and the whole members of the school.

3) What has been the impact of your project on your community?

Some people think if only we visit the temple several times that we can finish the task. In fact, every time we went there, we got something new. Visiting it again and again makes us feel ”afford food for thought”. Maybe in the nearly future, you will be able to see our web via typing “Lu-Kang Long-Shan temple” on the famous explore engines

In the whole process of the research, we know that doing the research should be serious and responsible to the antique town. Our minds seems to be quickly mature in only about one month.

4) How did your project involve other members of your community as helpers and volunteers?

The local experts offered us many valuable materials and opinions, which inspired us a lot All the helps show the enthusiasm of the people in Lu-Kang.

5) Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises (Optional)

Discovery: We join the Internet Exhibition to learn to love our hometown and reap no little benefit. It increases our understanding about the living style and value of art in the ancient time. Moreover, we also have learned how to finish a web and the importance of cooperation. In short, our abilities have been raised entirely. This will be a nice memory in the future.

Lesson: After the defeats and frustrations in the process, we have grown up and finally finish the task.

Self-exam: We entered the Temple, the cultural breath of quaint antique really moved us. How can’t we cherish and take good care of such abundant inheritance?

Amazing: Witnessing the situation of the temple after “921 Earthquake”, we expect that Lu-Kang Long –Shan temple will be more bright and brilliant than ever before in the nearly future.

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