1、Special research project related information

School：XiDatan Middle School Tianzhu county Gansu province China

Headmaster：zhang jiyun

Address：XiDatan town Tianzhu county Wuwei Gansu province of China

Teachers：Yan Changrong   Zhu Zhaonian

Students: 6  They are 13-14 yeras old

E-mail：yanchangrong2007@163.com

School Website: http://gs000061.edu.17888.com

2、Special research project

•    We participated in the competition categories are: local community groups

•    Our region is Xiama, which is part of Huarui Tibetan region. This area includes Xi Da Tan of Tianzhu County, Duoshi villige, Zhuaxi Longxiu Village, Anyuan Town, Do Da Tan, etc. Our research emphasizes on Xi Da Tan.

•    Our summary of the thematic research program：

In the summer of 2006, staff of EDEN Foundation came to our school accidently. However, after this meeting, EDEN Foundation became closely connected to our school and helped our school’s development. Since summer of 2007, EDEN Foundation has organized volunteering teaching for our school, three years in row, and the number of volunteers is more than 240. EDEN Foundation also helped us with material donations. Our website is to record their work and our gratitude.

•    Our Internet environment：

    We access internet by phone line with 1M bandwidth.

•    We have encountered and overcome challenges：

1.lack of experience. 2.lack of technique support. 3.lack of time

•    Proverbs experience：

    As long as you put your heart into your work, you’ll succeed.

3、Thematic elements of research projects

The goals and objectives：

•    Our research can help us to remember every loving journey EDEN Foundation made to Da Xi Tan and to record our school’s story with EDEN as a historical document. On the other hand, it will help students and teachers in our school to know EDEN better and to understand the greatness of the love across Taiwan Strait. Our research can also be seen as a development of school course. The research result can be content of our school’s course.

•    Tools: phone, digital camera, scanner, computer, books, survey, field interview.

•    We use camera to record important moments; We use internet to get information; we use computer to make the website; we use field interviews to get the first-hand materials.

•    We use internet resources, computer, camera to carry out our research plans.

•    Mr. SHEN Yu from Shanghai donated a digital camera for us

•    The most valuable resources are digital devices and computers.

•    Computer technology is most useful because it has irreplaceable advantages, such as amazing calculating speed, convenient information searching and management.

     The student representatives in this monographic research are ambassadors from different local regions. They are responsible for introducing local characteristics to the world. Could you please tell me how you play the role of “ambassador” by contacting individuals and organizations?

•    In order to finish this research, we visited and interviewed lots of teachers and students. They were very interested in our research and gave us lots of support and coordination. They said it was a great thing to do that we could tell the world about Xiama and about our hometown’s unique culture.

What kind of influence and impact does this monographic research give to you?

suggestions:

•    How does this monographic research change your hometown?

     Our monographic research plan leads us to explore our school’s cultural resources which we could use to cultivate students and influence society.

•    Can local people learn new things from your website?

Our monographic research will help local people to know better about our school culture and let them realize the broader communication between Da Xi Tan Middle School and outside world. And through this communication, they can see more about the outside and the outside can know more about Da Xi Tan, the beautiful village in the deep mountain. This is a win-win action.

•    Can foreigners in the outside world gain some new things about your hometown from your website?

     As long as they can go over our website, foreign friends will gain new understandings of my hometown. In their eyes, Da Xi Tan won’t be a remote, isolated, pretty village any more. Instead, Da Xi Tan is a new countryside with its strong steps to change its poverty.

•    Do you build up new relations with local people?

Local people from different fields gave us lots of support. They admired our spirit to communicate with outside. They want to see that through our efforts our hometown can become a better place.

•    What kind of people else once looked over you website? What kind of responses you got?

     There are students from Nankai University, Northwest Normal University, Gansu Ethnic Normal College who were volunteering teachers in our school. And other friends paid attention to our school for a long time. They also introduced our website to their friends. Through our website, they know more about Xiama Culture and want to visit Xiama Region more.

•    What kind of people did your monographic research help? How?

     In the process of our research, we helped local villagers to take pictures and copy materials. And we also helped new students in our school to know more about the previous communication activities.

Discovery, lessons, and surprise

•    Do you have any interesting finding? What lessons do you learn? Or do you feel surprised by the results of this monographic research?

     Through this monographic research, we gained knowledge, broad our mind, and exercise our will. We became to study harder and realized the responsibility of us to construct our hometown. We built up deep friendships with team members and teachers. Those precious experience make us grateful.

4、Contribution ratio

5、Reference:

     http://www.westchinastory.com/module/a0050/showcontent.php?intGetProjectNo=4&inttopicid=31000&isOther=1