Tsai Ting An： 

 In the middle of August, the teachers selected us to participate this painstaking competition (since we had to give up our noon break, it’s painstaking). It’s indeed an honor to be part of the team because it means we have better computer skills. For honor’s sake, we still came to the computer room everyday to complete this website gradually.

Now, the hard procedure improved our skills as well as my aesthetic taste.

Because of everyone’s efforts, the website is done now. We have a better understanding of Taichung Park. Hope our efforts can pay off and we can earn a reputation for our school.

Yu Bing Han：

 I’ve been responsible for making illustration and picture for this website. Everyone said I did a good job and I agree with that. I’ve put a lot of efforts into it. I made drawings like Hu Xin Pavilion, Wang Yue Pavilion, Zhong Zheng Bridge and etc. These pictures made the website more outstanding, and I feel quite accomplished about it.

Among all the pictures, the most difficult one should be Zhong Shang Bridge. The teacher said the bridge I drew looked like going to fall apart. Therefore, I had to make a new one. When the teacher was happy about it, I felt relieved.

I am really glad to have this opportunity to participate in this website competition, and it improves my drawing skills.

Huang Zi Hau：

At the very beginning, I was not used to PhotoImpact 6. However, after teachers’ patient instruction, I became computer savvy and made god use of this software. The procedure was very difficult, however, I believe our efforts will pay off.

I had a really hard time when doing buttons because I don’t have aesthetic taste. However, the smart computer teacher showed me some tips that triggered my imagination and creativity.

I appreciate that the teacher gave me this opportunity to make website. That improves my computer skills. Hope our work can have a good result.

Lee Yu Cheng：

In the past days, I’ve worked hard to make drawings to meet everyone’s needs. The beautiful Gang Building and Pao Tai Hill in the front page are my excellent work. No matter how the teachers and classmates tease me, I believe my job is great.

Because of this opportunity, I can produce good drawings by computer. Not only the color, but also details are all within my concern. Moreover, I become closer to other team members.

Now, the website is ready. Hope we can gain a good result.

Huang Zhou Yi：

I received a notification at the end of fifth grade and that required as to attend a ten days long computer camp. I was very happy because I was selected among the 200 sixth grade students. After the computer camp, we thought that was the end. However, when the next semester started, the computer teachers informed us another website competition was waiting for us. That was really a surprise.

During the procedure, I was assigned to make titles. It’s a painstaking job. Each title needs different design and color to go with background. There’re not too much choices. Only three elements are available to make changes. It’s hard.

Now, the website is almost done. Hope a good result can pay off our precious noon breaks.

Fu Yu Xuan：

Since I was chosen to engage in this competition, I’ve been learning computer skills from the teachers. I encountered a lot of problems, however, with teachers’ instruction, I’ve been making progress day after day.

Once the teacher asked me to design background, the initial result was a complete disaster. However, after the teachers’ instruction, now my job is terribly great. Another similar situation happened when the teacher asked me to design level lines. I was stunned because it was the first time. But the result wasn’t that bad as I expected.

Now, the website is done. From It built from nothing. I really appreciate our teachers’ patient instruction. Hope our website can earn a good prize.

Huang Guo Xuan：

In the summer vacation, we were selected to do the website competition. Not everyone has the honor to participate it. We are all the tops ones. We had great time as well as difficult time in the procedure, however, we’re all happy to take challenges.

We learned far more than we had expected from this experience. We also appreciate two beautiful teachers’ instruction. Not only my computer skills enhanced, but also my mental. That’s it.

Chang Kai Ping：

I’ve enjoyed every moment since I was chosen to do the website. I like computer a lot and was really glad to be part of the team. The teachers told us that we had to make use of our noon break in the computernoon.

I didn’t join the team till the later part. It’s been a couple of months since then. The activity conducted by Housewife Association impressed me a lot. It help both of our understanding of the park and the website construction. Therefore, I was the first one to sign up the activity when informed of it.

After the teachers’ daily instruction, I have ea better understanding of the situation. Hope we have a good result.

Wu Cheng Xun：

Because of the teacher’s recommendation, I joined this team for this competition. I learned a lot from this experience, including photo dealing, web pages, titles and background designing.  Starting without the slightest idea about PhotoImpact software, the whole hard learning procedure is more than words.

I showed up in the computer room on time almost every noon, in order to do my part of job. I just transferred to this school and didn’t really know any classmates. The participation enabled me to know a lot of friends. Sometimes we were playing and making fun, however, we did our jobs with all efforts.

Now that the task is done, we can finally take good break in noon. I really expect a good result and I’m sure these days will be part of my memory.

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Telephone (school)

Function：Making inquiries
Usage：Telephones save our time because we need to contact busy officers.

2.

Digital camera and recorder (provided by school)

Function：Shooting scenes, taking pictures and recording speech
Usage：Digital camera is provided by school; recorder by group member. They are tools to enrich the record.

3.

Software (computer room)

Function：researching, home page editing, drawing, animation producing and photo assessing.
Usage：The set of software we used include IE6.0, FrontPage 2000, PhotoImpact 6.0,painter, ACDsee, Ulead GIF Animator 4.0, Word2000, Outlook Express and so on. We knew most software in our fifth grade. However, not till producing the website do we become familiar with them. Our instructors always emphasizes that we need to use computers to make vivid pictures.

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Books, newspaper and magazine (provided by group member)

Function：Searching data
Usage：In addition to retrieve information from net, we also paid attention to messages on newspaper or magazines.

5.

Oral Interview

Mr. Lin Liang Zhe of Taichung Culture Department, local people, housewife association and Taichung City Mayor, Mr. Hu Zhi Qiang

Among above resources, we particularly like the interaction with interviewees. The personal experiences are real and impressive.

Mr. Lin Liang Zhe offered us answers about heritage topics.

We are surrounded by the beautiful nature. However, because of the intense life pace of mondern people, seldom do we have recreation time to get near to the nature.

By this opportunity, we all realize that it’s not so difficult to embrace the nature. Nature is in our daily life, like Taichung Park. In the park, you can see different kinds of plants. Bigger ones are like the century old trees-java silk trees; smaller one like grass. Butterflies are dancing all over while turtles are defending lotus leaves. If you have time, hope you can embrace the nature like we do.

Your website may not last for a long period. Please elaborate how the relationship between your school and local place is strengthened through this project.

This project research makes us see the importance of environmental conservation. Taichung Park has been in existence since Japan’s reign. It offers a good place for people to exercise because it’s in the downtown. Because realizing the importance of maintaining the environment, now we are used to cleaning our own environment. Our family all praise our new good habit.

We’re also proud of this park and glad to be part of Taichung City. We’ll carry this pride with us whenever we are.

We made this website to help Taiwan people understand the importance of this city. It also helps foreigners who are not yet familiar with this country have insightful view of our culture. Some foreign tourists come to Taiwan to learn about the locals. They also make good contribution to our tourism business.   

Elaborate what kind of advantage your project research does to the school, parents and local community.

You’ll understand the importance of exercising once you are in Taichung Park. Many people are here to dance, to play balls, to walk and to bike. Some classmates’ families have a better understanding of Taichung Park because of this project. They are also learning how to maintain this park and share the responsibility as one of Taichung locals. 

How to maintain our environment? Even if you are busy and have no more time for extra contribution, you can pick up littering whenever you saw it. Or, simply by not littering, you’re doing your contribution. Or, you can use some cleaning tools to help clearing.

Learn to understand Taichung Park, and you’ll be more aware of it. Environmental conservation won’t be too difficult.

Mr. Lin from Taichung Culture Department, for example, provided us old photos of the park, explained the history and the original situation to us. He offered the first-hand and precise information. He is a great help to us.

Most teams in website fair need a lot of advice and assistance to complete their jobs. How about you?

We don’t really need a great deal of assistance. However, we did take advices. Some advices are short, however, we could come up more ideas from them. We’re all very happy that the teachers could have smart students like us to do this job.

Please talk about those who help you. Who are they? And how you found them and asked for their assistance? What did they do? Here offers you a great place to show your gratitude. You may link their stories with photos. Be sure you have their permissions to put their photos on. Also, talk about those who help you via internet.

At first, we’d like to appreciate Mr. Lin’s help. We attended the heritage tour led by him. He offered us a lot of information, which couldn’t be found on net. He also corrected those wrong messages we found via net. His professional knowledge helps our entire website content. He even provided us old photos of Taichung Park. We really appreciate his help.

Then, we’d like to thank those beautiful and energetic aunts. We participated the learning tour conducted by them. We learned what we couldn’t from other places.

The city mayor saved us some time to take photo with him He is very kind and care about this park. He asked the staff to answer our questions and to reply us via email.

Finally, we’d like to thanks Lin Mon Jei and Cheng Zhu Yun who made illustration and pictures for the website. Their job enriches the content.

Asking for permission-response from Taichung City Government

City government agrees that Yu-Jen students can use infromation retrieved 
from "Tachung Tour Net". However, they must give the credit to Taichung City 
Government "Taichung Tour Net" (http://travel.tccg.gov.tw).
By Transportation Department. Call at 04-22289111 #1651 if you have questions

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 Data collection

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Web pages edition

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Progress report

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Interviewees: Mr. Lin Liang Zhe, Wife Association, Taichung City Government

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Determine interview outline

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Note down interview

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Recording

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Conduct group meeting

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Draft research topic and plan

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Summary and analysis of material

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Computer skills instruction

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Research website instruction and examination

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Photographing

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Plan and inquiry

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Pick up students

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Offer materials

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Mr. Lin Liang Zhe of Taichung Culture Department offers information and photos

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Housewife association teaches us ecology

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Taichung City Government responds to our questions.