PROJECT OVERVIEW
Describe what you consider to be your "local community."
We are students of Sekolah Citra Kasih of Indonesia. We have this thing called Interest Group, this Interest Group is called Digital Technology, it helps us improve our computer skills so in the future we know what to do. Interest Group starts at the age of 9-11 years of age( Grade 4-5). We have an Interest Group every Friday.
Our project is about Mount Gede, it is located in West Java of Indonesia. Mount Gede is a stratovolcano in West Java, Indonesia. The volcano contains two peaks with Mount Gede as one peak and Mount Pangrango as the other one. Three major cities, Cianjur, Sukabumi, and Bogor, are located in the volcano complex at the east, south, and northwest, respectively, along with suburban growth. Seven craters are located in the complex: Baru, Gumuruh (2,927 m), Lanang (2,800 m), Kawah Leutik, Ratu (2,800 m), Sela (2,709 m) and Wadon (2,600 m). Historical volcanic activity has been recorded since the 16th century. With the amalgamation and growth of Greater Jakarta with those 3 cities, dense suburban growth has engulfed the fringes of the volcano, home to roughly 4 million people. Though not listed as one of the Decade Volcanoes or thought to produce large eruptions, the huge populations nearby give a potential for severe destruction if indeed a large eruption did occur.
Explain how your project supports this year's CyberFair theme
Our project would be able to support this year's cyberfair because we are going to put out more information than last year and make a better website.
We were always working on this project at school. We have good facilities and connections now for computer and internet access. But we still have to learn a lot, how to find the proper and interesting information for our project.
Our Computer and Internet Access
A. Percentage of students using the Internet at home: More than 50%
B. Number of workstations with Internet access in the classroom: More than 6
C. Connection speed used in the classroom: Dedicated connection
D. Number of years our classroom has been connected to the Internet: More than 6
E. Additional comments concerning your computer and/or Internet access (Optional):
Each class has an internet connection. Students can use Wi-Fi in all school areas.
Our Project Sound Bite
This project gives us information about Mount Gede. It can tell students things about Mount Gede. It is mostly about the activities, facilities, events, bibliography, and photos about Mount Gede.
This project improves our knowledge about this local attraction. Mount Gede has become a popular hiking spot and with various types of protected endemic flora and fauna, this national park is also important in preserving nature and the environment. Many activities are held in this place that encourage people to save earth and nature, maintain the cleanliness of our environment, and the beauty of our natural environment. Mount Gede is very beautiful and a must-visit place in West Java, Indonesia.
How did your activities and research for this International Schools CyberFair Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?
Our integrated project, fit to our national curriculum standard that forced students to be an active researcher and also be active in the class by doing research.Sociology subject. The project also connected with our Digital Technology Interest Group curriculum: developing a website, creating content, editing pictures and Entrepreneurship curriculum: Entrepreneurship education Ciputra Way. According to us, our entrepreneurship curriculum shapes a new mindset for us. We can see that entrepreneurship education will spread kindness in a collaborative society. Therefore, through this project we learned more about kindness and collaboration principles and shared them with the Global School Net Community. From this project we learned: how to research about a site that give influence to society, we can explore the information from various resources (internet, books, interview, video, etc), compile it and develop a web. This is a new skill for us. We feel proud about this website, and we really enjoyed our group team work. We discovered, creating a web is a challenge for us, not easy but it’s interesting. We learned many things from the internet more than our traditional classroom.
The problem that we need to overcome during making this project is selecting the best topic category of eight categories and finding the clear information about the topic. Beside that, we also have problems with computer cameras.
Our school has equipment such as proper computers and internet connection. Our computers have a camera but, maybe some students don’t know where the camera is when they need it and there is no teacher. But it was solved by the teachers telling them where the camera was.
At the beginning of doing this project, we had problems choosing the information that will be informative and acknowledge the reader. Most of us never go to that place, we only pass that place. But by doing this project we realized that we have to visit that place and experience the beauty and so many activities that can open our horizons.