1、Description
of Our Community
Qianyang county is locate at the western of
Shaanxi,
a loess hilly and gully region. Total county
covers the area of 996.46 square kilometers, has
7 townships and 97 administrative villages with
about 134,000 people, of which 111,000 people
are farmers. Qianyang County develops fruit-tree
and vegetable planting, has a 4600 mu of the
Asia's biggest base of apple nursery stock;
the biggest sample base farm in the country that
plantations are intensively managed.
Carrot , corn, milk powder and apple abtain
Golden Prize in China. Seven production bases
are identified as a pollution-free agricultural
production base.
Qianyang is the mother land of Yanji who is one
of Confucius's 72 pupils; Zhi Guoqin who is a
prime minister in West-Han Dynasty; and Duan
Xiushi who is an official in Tang Dynasty, known
to history as "Three sages in Qianyang".Qianhu
wetland, a heaven of regimen, is the sole
national wetland in Shaanxi.Shaanxi Lianhuashan
hunting grounds is a garden for hunting with a
beautiful scenery.
2、Summary of
Our Project
We interviewed embroidery ladies and studied of
Qianyang embroidery characteristic and
development to get to know Qianyang embroidery
better. Qianyang embroidery is a folk art handed
down from generation to generation through oral
tradition, a fine folk art treasure that ancient
people left us. We also have seen the challenge
Qianyang embroidery faces, and the measures by
County Government to inherit, develop local
fabric embroidery. It strengthens our
responsibility to preserve folk art. Meanwhile
in the course of project research, our ability
of social practice and IT got improved
3、Our Computer and Internet Access
A. Percentage of students using the
Internet at home: more than 10%
B. Number of workstations with Internet access
in the classroom: more than 1
C,Number of classrooms has been connected to
the Internet: more than 13
4、Problems We Had To Overcome
Problems We Had To Overcome:
(1)、Most of local people who can embroider are
farmers, they are a little bit busy and not
available for an interview.
(2)、Rural students had been little touched by the
Information technology, we are not proficient in
computer software
(3)、Our interviews out of school was not allowed
by school leaders because of security concerns.
(4)、We don’t have the experience to take part in Cyberfair.
Solution:
(1)、We encouraged school students to ask their
parents or relatives to contact folk artists.
(2)、Making use of after class time,
turn to teachers for helps ,
we improved our ability to operate the computer.
(3)、We went out an interview on weenkends.
5、Our
Project Sound Bite
By taking part in webpage-making competition, we
understand a lot of information about Qianyang
embroidery and appreciate the traditional
crafts, in addition to
enhancing our love of homeland. We develop
deep feelings for homeland embroidery and want
to become more involved in promoting them.
Meanwhile we loved IT deeply, learned to express
our voice and feeling by internet.
6、How
did your activities and research for this
CyberFair Project support standards, required
coursework and curriculum standards?
(1)、The combination of art class and our study of Cyberfair project, we utilize the knowledge we
learned in art lesson in the webpage-making, to
make a page appealing. And introducing the
homeland embroidery into art teaching.
(2)、The combination of IT class and our study of Cyberfair project, students learn to make web
pages in IT lesson, and supply support for the
related research of Cyberfair project.
(3)、In the extension of research, homeland
embroidery was introduced into art teaching, and
enhanced student’s love of homeland. |