| First
Report |
By Liu
Guo-yuan |
| Date |
June 21, 2006 |
| Subject |
We are a special team |
| Activity |
I am very glad to join the team. Since
I am more convenient to get access to internet,
I will be responsible for conveying the
latest information of Cyber Fair, arranging
time and looking for some material. Teachers
and students are mainly responsible for
collecting local information and interview.
We will study how to build a website together.
I will contact you by email and telephone.
It is a pity that I can not join you for
the interview for the long distance. But
I believe we can make it! |
| Second
Report |
By Yan Yue-qin |
| Date |
June 24, 2006 |
| Subject |
Informed of taking part in Cyber Fair
and team formation |
| Activity |
This morning, we saw the notice for Cyber
Fair on Town and Talent website. We instantly
reported this to the headmaster and teachers.
The teachers were required to select subjects
according to the Cyber Fair’s requirements
and prepare to take part in it. Our team
is called “Xia.Tian”(Xia means summer; Tian
means sky), which includes seven people:
two teachers in Taole No.1 Secondary School
, four students and a staff-Mr Liu in Town
and Talent Technologies. |
| Third Report |
By Chen Yan-zhi |
| Date |
June 26, 2006 |
| Subject |
Set our subject |
| Activity |
After a few days of discussion, we get
rid of subjects concerning tourism, nationality,
famous person and local special things for
their possible similarity to other participants’
subjects. However, the Binggou tombs of
Han Dynasty are a valuable relic and treasure
of our country. Thus we decide “entering
Binggou” as our subject. |
| Fourth Report |
By Gao Cong |
| Date |
July. 6, 2006 |
| Subject |
Interviewing the Headmaster Yan |
| Activity |
Although we have set our subject, we know
a little about Binggou. This afternoon,
we interviewed our headmaster, who told
us that Binggou was an important military
defense since Qin Dynasty. At that time,
Han people and Xiongnu always had conflict.
In Han Dynasty, that place became a war
field, that was the formation of tombs.
He also asked us to do research of historical
records. |
| Fifth Report |
By Chen Hai |
| Date |
July.18,2006 |
| Subject |
Make friends with the general manager
of Binggou Tourist Zone-Mr Zhao |
| Activity |
In the process of getting together with
old classmates, I got to know-Mr Zhao, the
general manager of Binggou Tourist Zone.
When I told him that our school decided
to choose Binggou as the subject of participating
Cyber Fair, he was very happy and welcomed
us to visit. |
| Sixth Report |
By Lv Dong-zhi |
| Date |
July.25,2006 |
| Subject |
The first investigation |
| Activity |
after several days’ plan, we decided to
visit Binggou Tourist Zone and make records
of historical stories about it. |
| Seventh Report |
By Zu Lei |
| Date |
July.25,2006 |
| Subject |
Mr Zhao’s doubts |
| Activity |
When we entered Mr Zhao’s office, he asked
us that how much we needed to do this research.
If we need investment, I would consider
it again. We told him that we did not need
any money and our research was to publish
local culture. Then, he decided to support
our research as much as possible. |
| Eighth Report |
By Lv Dong-zhi |
| Date |
July.25,2006 |
| Subject |
When you need help, just tell me |
| Activity |
Mr zhao authorized us to visit Binggou
Tourist Zone for free and permitted to give
us more support if we needed. From then
on, we felt the responsibility on our shoulders
became heavier. |
| Ninth Report |
By Chen Hai |
| Date |
July.30,2006 |
| Subject |
“Shuose Changtian” |
| Activity |
W`e find a TV documentary about the history
of water resources in Ningxia Autonomous
Region on CCTV called “Shuose Changtian”.
We watched it for five times and put forward
our opinions about making our web pages. |
| Tenth Report |
By Zu Lei |
| Date |
August.6,2006 |
| Subject |
Figure portrait |
| Activity |
In material collecting, we decided to
draw some portraits about famous figures
in history. My classmate-Miss Chen Yan-zhi
actively undertook the task. |
| 11st Report |
By Chen Yan-zhi |
| Date |
August.20,2006 |
| Subject |
Material collecting on internet |
| Activity |
As Binggou Site was an ancient war field,
the concrete location and other information
needed researching. We chose to search information
on internet. Fortunately, we found it. |
| 12nd Report |
By Gao Cong |
| Date |
August.26,2006 |
| Subject |
Calling Mr Zhao |
| Activity |
Binggou Site was restored in recent years,
in which the architecture style made us
confused. Although we read a lot of books,
we still couldn’t find the answer. Then
we remembered that Mr Zhao had participated
in the entire development of Binggou Site,
who must know a lot about it. After calling
him, we got to know that the architecture
style belonged to Qin Dynasty. |
| 13rd Report |
By Lv Dong-zhi |
| Date |
September.3,2006 |
| Subject |
The encouragement from Ningxia TV Station
and Newspaper |
| Activity |
A journalist in Ningxia Newspaper ever
interviewed us about participating in Cyber
Fair. This afternoon, we received a letter
from this journalist, who encouraged us
to do our best in this international competition.
|
| 14th Report |
By Chen Yan-zhi |
| Date |
September.9,2006 |
| Subject |
Shoulder to shoulder |
| Activity |
As we chose the category “historical landmark”,
we find our report difficult to write. Our
teacher put forward a suggestion that everyone
wrote down his idea about a question and
then pick out the essential part, which
could combine a good essay. Working like
small ants, we believed that we could do
our best as long as we united together.
|
| 15th Report |
By Zu Lei |
| Date |
September.10,2006 |
| Subject |
Communication with Mr Liu on internet |
| Activity |
Every weekend, we communicated with Mr
Liu(a staff in Town and Talent Technologies)
about the material collecting and research
progress. In his guide, we made a lot progress.
|
| 16th Report |
By Gao Cong |
| Date |
September.13,2006 |
| Subject |
Making newspaper |
| Activity |
After material collecting, we got to
know more about Binggou Site. Our teacher
proposed to make newspapers to publish the
local culture and paste it in communities.
In production process, everyone was assigned
tasks. We were happy to share our knowledge
with others. |
| 17th Report |
By Lv Dong-zhi |
| Date |
September.26,2006 |
| Subject |
Making display panels |
| Activity |
In our school’s Culture and Art Festival,
we showed our display panels about Binggou
Site, on which there were photos and word
explanations. After seeing our exquisite
panels, many students wanted to visit Binggou
in Oct holiday. |
| 18th Report |
By Gao Cong |
| Date |
October.9,2006 |
| Subject |
Assistance from our librarian |
| Activity |
In making a web site about historical
landmark, we need to do a lot of research
on information collection. We were busy
with our study, only in weekends; we had
time to search data. However, our school’s
library closed in weekend. When the librarians-Miss
Yin and Miss Chen got to our situation,
they actively found out the books we needed
in their spare time. If we needed some books
urgent, we just called them and then everything
was OK. Thanks to their help, we saved a
lot of time. |
| 19th Report |
By Zu Lei |
| Date |
October.18,2006 |
| Subject |
Encouragement from Town & Talent Technologies |
| Activity |
In our school’s Culture and Art Festival,
several staff of Town & Talent Technologies
including Mr Zeng, Mr Li and Miss Cui and
other officials came to visit our school
and see our display panels. They encouraged
us to work hard and send gifts to four students.
We appreciated everyone who supported us
to make web pages. |
| 20th Report |
By Chen Yan-zhi |
| Date |
October.29,2006 |
| Subject |
Carefully reading “The Historical Record”
by Si Ma-qian |
| Activity |
We discussed the difficult sentences in
“The Historical Record” by Si Ma-qian. Sometime,
we had warm debate about how to understand
a particular sentence. |
| 21st Report |
By Lv Dong-zhi |
| Date |
November.9,2006 |
| Subject |
Popularization of Binggou’s history |
| Activity |
Most people in Taole County knew about
the Binggou Site; however, only a few knew
its history, especially in the village.
Our teachers classified and typed the information
of Binggou and scheduled to popularize in
village on Sunday. After we reached destination,
we began to send our material to villagers
and told them the stories about Binggou.
They listened to our words seriously. |
| 22nd Report |
By Gao Cong |
| Date |
November.18,2006 |
| Subject |
Searching in school’s library |
| Activity |
We felt that making newspaper was a good
way to publish Binggou culture and history.
Because our knowledge about Binggou was
not adequate, we went to our school’s library
to search more information and recorded
it on our notebook. |
| 23rd Report |
By Yan Yue-qin |
| Date |
November.20,2006 |
| Subject |
Buying books |
| Activity |
It was difficult to do a research about
historical landmark, such as Binggou Site.
In order to learn the historical background
of it, our teacher went to Yinchuan to buy
some history books including “The Historical
Records” by Si Ma-qian. |
| 24th Report |
By Zu Lei |
| Date |
November.25,2006 |
| Subject |
Asking Mr Ma for advice |
| Activity |
In material collection, we found the geographical
knowledge very hard. Our instructor asked
us to ask for Mr Ma-a geographical teacher
in our school, who was kind and knowledgeable.
We recorded our own questions in material
collection and put forward to him. He answered
it one by one. When talking about the formation
of the Grand Binggou Valley, he proposed
his own opinions about the transformation
of local landform. His explanation laid
a basic foundation for us to learn Binggou’s
geography. |
| 25th Report |
By Chen Yan-zhi |
| Date |
November.28,2006 |
| Subject |
Asking Miss Shi for advice |
| Activity |
Binggou Site had a history over 2000 years.
With a series of questions, we asked our
historical teacher-Miss Shijing for advice,
who took out a lot of historical record
and maps, explaining contemporary social
situation, economical and diplomacy condition.
We got to know the origin of Hunhuaizhang
and many other things. Being local people,
we felt quite shamed about our ignorance
of Binggou’s history. |
| 26th Report |
By Lv Dong-zhi |
| Date |
December.6,2006 |
| Subject |
Popularizing Binggou’s history to people
in communities |
| Activity |
There was a bazaar today. Our teacher
and team members pasted our self-made newspapers
about Binggou’s history on bill boards.
Then we retreated and waited for people’s
reaction to our newspaper. In a short time,
some people came to read it. Someone said
that the edition was exquisite and the content
was rich. Someone said that he didn’t know
so much history about Binggou until reading
our newspaper. Hearing these words, we felt
very happy. |
| 27th Report |
By Chen Yan-zhi |
| Date |
December.6,2006 |
| Subject |
Group discussion |
| Activity |
In material collection, we had a debate
about vegetation and animals in Binggou
area. Some people thought that since yellow
sheep and wolves had disappeared, we should
not mention it in our web pages. However,
others thought that these species were part
of history in Binggou, we should refer to
them. After warm discussion, we decided
to mention them in our project and mainly
introduce its characteristics. |
| 28th Report |
By Zu Lei |
| Date |
December.18,2006 |
| Subject |
Our headmaster’s encouragement |
| Activity |
Today, our headmaster asked our team members
to have a meeting, in which he asked our
progress of making web pages and proposed
his own suggestion about Binggou Site. At
last, he encouraged us to cooperate. If
we met any difficulty, just ask for help
from school. We decided to try our best
to make web site. |
| 29th Report |
By Gao Cong |
| Date |
December.26,2006 |
| Subject |
Modifying the frame our website |
| Activity |
In collecting material, we find some subdivisions
not match our material. We communicate with
Mr Liu and then decide to modify the frame.
|
| 30th Report |
By Lv Dong-zhi |
| Date |
Jannary.2,2007 |
| Subject |
Interviewing Mr. Xu |
| Activity |
Tday, we went to visit Ms. Xu-the head
of Binggou Forest. She taught us to identify
plants in that forest. We took many pictures
there. |
| 31rt Report |
By Gao Cong |
| Date |
Jannary.6,2007 |
| Subject |
Revisit Binggou |
| Activity |
Having heared Ms. Xu’s description, we
decided to revisit Binggou area. On Sun,
we went to take pictures of plants in winter. |
| 32nd Report |
By Zu Lei |
| Date |
February.10,2007 |
| Subject |
The third visit to Binggou |
| Activity |
The purpose of this visit was to communicate
with the general manager of Binggou Tourist
Zone and collect relevant material. However,
he was absent when we came. After getting
permission on telephone, we began our work. |
| 33rd Report |
By Chen Yan-zhi |
| Date |
February.16,2007 |
| Subject |
Completion |
| Activity |
After eight months endeavor, we finally
complete our work. We are very glad and
expecting good result. |
| 34th Report |
By Gao Cong |
| Date |
February.20,2007 |
| Subject |
Searching diversifolious poplar |
| Activity |
The diversifolious poplar is a rare species
in Binggou area. We went to Binggou Forest
to take pictures of it. Mr Shi Zhan-jun(the
forest guard) showed way for us and told
us many things about this plant. We walked
for quite a long way and finally we saw
this species. |
| 35th Report |
By Liu Guo-yuan |
| Date |
March.15,2007 |
| Subject |
Completion |
| Activity |
After 8 months endeavor, we finally complete
our work. We are very glad and expecting
good result. |
