一、How did your activities and research for this International Schools Cyber Fair Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?

This project is aimed to help students understanding about the community culture, history, and natural resources from community events, and identify with the community. This project can also cultivate the learning ability of the students, including planning, data collection, interviewing, questionnaire survey, webpage editing, etc. Through a series of events, the students have gained in-depth knowledge on the culture and ecological resources of Jinyang Village, developed love toward their native land and identification with the culture, and utilized technology to express their feelings toward their culture.

二、What information tools & technologies did you use to complete your Cyber Fair project?

三、In what ways did you act as "ambassadors" and spokespersons for your Cyber Fair project both on-line and in person?

四、What has been the impact of your project on your community?

Although this project should be about information that we could learn from daily life, such as the history of Kiyang Village, weaving culture, and natural resources, we didn’t find those in our daily life. Some students didn’t know how to weave and fishing, or the significance to protect the rivers. Through this project, we surprisingly learned so much value culture and resources of Kiyang Village, and became more attached to this place. Through this project, we have developed position identification and mission toward Kiyang Village.

五、Intellectual property rights:

Most of the photos and pictures are shot or illustrated by students, and the cited books and text were specified with sources. Some texts were from interviews.

Reference books:

(1) Elementary School Aboriginal Native Culture Materials – Atayal Vol. 2 and Teacher’s Manual – Vol.4
Author: Ministry of Education, Taiwan Province Education Department, Atayal Native Culture Materials Compilation Group
Publisher: Aboriginal Native Culture Materials Editing Committee
Publishing date: Vol. 2 in June 2006, Vol. 4 in June 1999

(2) Our Home – Ilan   Ilan County Elementary School Third Grade Native Studies Teaching Manual
Author: Ilan County Elementary School Senior Grade Native Culture Materials Editing Committee

Publisher: Ilan County Government

Publishing date: July 1999

 (3) Green Klesan –Indigenous Plant of Nan-ao Atayal
Authors: Jing-sheng Tung, Guang-yu Wang, Li-jun Lin

Publisher: Forestry Bureau, Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan

Publishing date: November 2005

Reference websites:
Kiyang Elementary School Website: http://www.kyes.ilc.edu.tw/
Kiyang Tribe Eco-tourism Website: http://www.suao.com.tw/kingyun/travel/travel1.asp
Ilan Native Studies materials: http://media.ilc.edu.tw/

六、Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises:

In this project, we gained so much. Since our team is consisted of students from third to sixth grades, our lack of proficiency in IT skills has caused us many troubles. Yet, as we practiced more, our skills improved, and we were encouraged to work harder.

When we were interviewing the community elders, we were very nervous and anxious. Yet after several interviews, our interview skills improved, and the elders were very pleased with our growth.