A Successful Template of e-Education ------ Sharing of Teaching Material Through the Internet

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A Successful Template of e-Education ------ A
Schools CyberFair for APEC Community
Ms. Yue-Chane Hsing Director of the Schools
CyberFair in Chinese Taipei
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• What is Schools CyberFair?
• The story of Taiwan Schools CyberFair.
• A proposal on APEC Schools CyberFair.

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What is Schools CyberFair?
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• International Schools CyberFair
• Award-winning, authentic learning program
• Research about local communities
• Publish findings on the World Wide Web

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http//gsh.lightspan.com/cf/
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• 8 Categories
• Local leaders
• Community Groups and Special Populations
• Businesses and Organizations
• Local Specialties
• Local Attractions
• Historical Landmarks
• Environmental Awareness and Issues
• Local Music and Art Forms

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• White House endorsed
• Create new models of communication and
  cooperation between schools and their communities
  and environments.
• Involving 500,000 students from 1,500 schools in
  70 countries

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• Web-based evaluation
• International judges
• Live internet award ceremony

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• The CyberFair Vision Share and Unite
• What it means to be part of a community
• Student Ambassadors
• Showcase what is special about their place

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Create knowledge and share knowledge through the
internet
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• Reality
• Web-based
• Project-oriented
• Community centered
• Collaborative learning

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Contemporary e-Education

• Active learning
• Situation teaching
• Collaborative leaning
• IT education
• Internet sharing

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Transform students from passive consumers to
productive contributors.. to move from surfing to
serving.. from takers to makers
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The Schools CyberFair in Chinese Taipei --
Showcase its lives and the vividness -- The
Achievements
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• Expanded IT education infrastructure plan since
  1998 November
• 6,470,000,000NT (200,000,000US)
• Computer labs for every primary and secondary
  schools
• Broad-band internet connection to every primary
  and secondary schools
• IT Training for primary and secondary schools
  teachers

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• Goals
• Popularize IT education
• IT education resources sharing
• IT integrated into education
• Shorten digital divide locally and globally

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• 1999 International Schools CyberFair
• --Taiwans first participation
• 16 entries, 2 First Places, 1 Fifth Place
• 7 from Taitung county the outback of Taiwan

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1999 International Schools CyberFair Champions
Panchiao Senior High School and Shihmen Junior
High School
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• Schools CyberFair
• in Chinese Taipei

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Statistics

• 8 Categories
• Senior High Schools 75 registrations
• Junior High Schools 121 registrations
• Elementary Schools 73 registrations
• International competition -- 69 entries, 1
  Platinum, 2 Golds, 5 Silvers

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2000 International Schools CyberFair Champion
Puppet Theater (Shihlin Elementary School)
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2001 Schools CyberFair in Chinese Taipei
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Statistics I

• 9 Categories
• Senior High Schools 363 registrations
• Junior High Schools 215 registrations
• Elementary Schools 191 registrations
• International competition -- 43 entries, 3
  Platinums, 4 Golds, 4 Silvers, 7 Honorable
  Mentions

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2001 International Schools CyberFair Champions
Kangshan Vocational High School, Zhuqiang
Elementary School, and Shihlin Elementary School
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Statistics II

• Total registrations 769
• Submitted entries 499
• Teachers 1376
• Students 6533
• Forum messages 19014
• Progress reports 12661
• Homepage visits 347,000

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The stories of turning from information
disadvanteged into information advantaged
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• Outbacks of Chinese Taipei
• South-east Taiwan
• High mountains (aboriginal habitation)
• Offshore islands

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• Hualian County
• 1.6 Taiwan population
• 10 entries of 2001Taiwan Schools CyberFair
• 1 Platinum, 2 Silvers, 1 Honorable mention in
  2001 International Schools CyberFair

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• Sanzhan Elementary School -- Xiulin, Hualian
• Total students 81
• Aboriginal habitation

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The story of Buladan home of Rose stone
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• Baleng Elementary School -- Fuxing, Taoyuan
• Total students 77
• Aboriginal habitation
• 2000 Taiwan Schools CyberFair Champion

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• Xianglin Elementary School -- Alishan, Jiayi
• Total students 94
• Aboriginal habitation
• Highest school in Taiwan
• Altitude 2500

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• Jinling Junior High School -- Jinling, Jinmen
• Total students 500
• Offshore school
• 2001 Taiwan Schools CyberFair Champion

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A Proposal on APEC Schools CyberFair
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CyberFair Participating Schools from APEC members
Including Australia, Canada, Japan, Singapore,
Malaysia, USA, New Zealand, Chinese Taipei..
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2000 1st. Place Students Against Landmines (St.
Elizabeth Catholic School, Ottawa, Canada)
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2000 Gold Peranakan Culture (Sekolah Menengah
Kebangsaan Sri Sentosa, Malaysia )
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2001 Platinum Roaming 'Round Robina (Robina
State School, Australia)
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2001 Platinum -- Alaska Railroad Project (Weller
Elementary School, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA )
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1998 First Place The Singapore Zoological
Adventure (The Chinese High School, Singapore)
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1999 3rd. Place -- Time Machine MATSUYAMA (King's
English School, KUMANODAI, Japan )
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• Visions
• Succeed in all the tomorrows that follow
• Safe and strong communities
• Good "global citizens"

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• Reality
• Web based
• Project Oriented
• Community Centered
• APEC Members hosted

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• Strategies
• Localization
• Official recognition
• Traveling workshops
• Annual meeting

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Conclusion The economic disadvantage is resulted
from information disadvantage. This inherent
disadvantage can be broken up by sharing and
uniting through the internet.
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Fin Thank you