1、Category: Local Culture, Musicand Art Forms

2、Description of “Our Community”

3、Summary of Our Project：Our team worked on the shadow play culture for this Net Fair contest, and we divided our tasks and conducted investigations on several aspects covering the origins of the Hehuang shadow play, its singing and tunes, the props and the actors, as well as the present situation and visiting the folk artists. For experiencing the shadow play, we have downloaded the classic plays performed by teacher Mr. Tan on the internet.

4、Our Computer and Internet Access：Our school built a computer room in 2005 equipped with a total of forty computers and another one especially for teachers, most of which could not work normally for they were too old. And recently the network has been reformed that optical fiber has been set up covering the whole school.

5、Problems We Had To Overcome：We did encounter a lot of difficulties in the web pages making. Firstly, we did not have an experienced teacher on such field. And the teacher Mr. Ma was quite busy for sparing time studying on line and editing while also arranging us to go on the interview and collect materials. Secondly, it happened to be the harvest time for farmers when we were in the process of collecting materials, thus our interview was once difficult to be carried out. Finally, for lacking of experience on making web pages, we had to learn from the previous excellent works as the ideas of drafting the website outline.

6、Our Project Sound Bite：Hearing the news from teacher Mr. Ma that we were to participate in the Net Fair contest, we were on one hand, very happy for such a good opportunity to demonstrate our local culture and our competence. On the other hand, we did worry about this new project that we have never heard of that, let alone making a website. Thus we were confused and had no clear direction to go. After we put forward sorts of problems, the headmaster and teacher Mr. Ma held a special meeting without any hesitation. The headmaster gave us great support on our research and told us that we could turn to him whenever we met difficulties. Then teacher Mr. Ma made a detailed plan for the research and encouraged us that what others could do, so did us. "Nothing is difficult as long as you can go to have a try." Hearing such encouragement, we felt gone of the anxiety and in the following days we carried out each of our division of work. Everyone has worked hard collecting materials, followed by starting to make the website. However, we were blocked by a trouble. Seeing teacher Mr. Ma was frowning, we learned that he was not majoring in computer and might not know much about this. As much as we could be anxious, teachers Mr. Yang Wensheng, He Qingbang and Gao Huishan came to us and joint us to study together. So in the following days, these teachers learned to edit the web pages on line and tried to design and make a new one. Finally, our hard work bore the fruit of gains that our website was built with the joint efforts. Despite of some tiny shortcomings, we were hilarious about it. Just as teacher Mr. Ma's words that nothing was difficult as long as we went to have a try.