A Successful Template of e-Education ------ A Schools CyberFair for APEC Community

1. A Successful Template of e-Education ------ A Schools CyberFair for APEC Community Ms. Yue-Chane Hsing Director of the Schools CyberFair in Chinese Taipei

2. What is Schools CyberFair? • The story of Taiwan Schools CyberFair. • A proposal on APEC Schools CyberFair.

3. What is Schools CyberFair?

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

5. http://gsh.lightspan.com/cf/

6. 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

7. 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

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

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

10. Create knowledge and share knowledge through the internet

11. Reality • Web-based • Project-oriented • Community centered • Collaborative learning

12. Contemporary e-Education • Active learning • Situation teaching • Collaborative leaning • IT education • Internet sharing

13. Transform students from passive consumers to productive contributors.. to move from surfing to serving.. from takers to makers

14. The Schools CyberFairin Chinese Taipei -- Showcase its lives and the vividness -- The Achievements

15. Expanded IT education infrastructure plan – since 1998 November • 6,470,000,000$NT (200,000,000$US) • 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

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

17. 1999 International Schools CyberFair • --Taiwan’s first participation • 16 entries, 2 First Places, 1 Fifth Place • 7 from Taitung county – the outback of Taiwan

18. 1999 International Schools CyberFair Champions – Panchiao Senior High School and Shihmen Junior High School

19. Schools CyberFair • in Chinese Taipei

20. 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

21. 2000 International Schools CyberFair Champion – Puppet Theater (Shihlin Elementary School)

22. 2001 Schools CyberFair in Chinese Taipei

23. 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

24. 2001 International Schools CyberFair Champions – Kangshan Vocational High School, Zhuqiang Elementary School, and Shihlin Elementary School

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

26. The stories of turning from information disadvanteged into information advantaged

27. Outbacks of Chinese Taipei • South-east Taiwan • High mountains (aboriginal habitation) • Offshore islands

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

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

30. The story of Buladan – home of Rose stone

31. Baleng Elementary School -- Fuxing, Taoyuan • Total students: 77 • Aboriginal habitation • 2000 Taiwan Schools CyberFair Champion

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

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

34. A Proposal on APEC Schools CyberFair

35. CyberFair Participating Schools from APEC members Including Australia, Canada, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, USA, New Zealand, Chinese Taipei…..

36. 2000 1st. Place – Students Against Landmines (St. Elizabeth Catholic School,Ottawa, Canada)

37. 2000 Gold – Peranakan Culture (Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Sri Sentosa, Malaysia )

38. 2001 Platinum — Roaming 'Round Robina (Robina State School, Australia)

39. 2001 Platinum -- Alaska Railroad Project (Weller Elementary School, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA )

40. 1998 First Place – The Singapore Zoological Adventure (The Chinese High School, Singapore)

41. 1999 3rd. Place -- Time Machine MATSUYAMA (King's English School, KUMANODAI, Japan )

42. Visions • Succeed in all the tomorrows that follow • Safe and strong communities • Good "global citizens"

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

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

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

46. Fin Thank you