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Project
Summary |
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1.Category
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8. Arts and Culture (Project ID:
6018) |
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2.Description of Our Community
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Our school is located in Song-Shan district of Taipei city.
Established in 1936, it's a typical metropolitan school. Although we have
a big playground, there is no gymnasium or indoor space for students to
exercise. Under such conditions, our shuttleball team still wins lots of
trophies.
After the shuttle team members graduate from the school, most of them
continue playing shuttleball in the neighboring high schools. Some players even become the national team
members. We can say that Xisong’s
shuttleball team is the cradle of excellent athletes. |
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3.Description of Our Team
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Our team members include Maggie, Peter, Kitty and Lulu. All of us are
12~13 years old. We join the project
because we would like to analyze the success
of our shuttleball team and introduce this special sport to the world. The
shuttleball in Taiwan is
different from that outside Taiwan.
Taiwan’s
shuttleball is quite unique. The skills of Taiwanese shuttleball even mix some
skills of traditional martial arts.
During the last 6 months, we searched the internet for the information
about shuttleball, interviewed important persons, we designed different
questionnaires, and we even learned how to kick a shuttleball. We really appreciate our advisors, who
instruct us how to finish the project and how to build web pages. |
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4.Summary of Our Project |
Shuttleball is a sport which has been neglected all the time. The number of shttleball teams in schools is
limited. It’s unlike basketball or
soccer that there are always star players or been broadcasted. However, its effects of exercise are not
different from others’.
Shuttleball has been transformed from a folk trick,
shuttlecock. Its appearance and skills
are much the same as that of the shuttlecock, though it is bigger in size. Its rules and skills basically come from
soccer and badminton, and even some from martial art.
Our project is taking the shuttleball team in Xisong Elementary School
as the start to investigate the origin and possibilities of shuttleball. |
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5. Our Computer and Internet Access
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6.Problems We Had to Overcome
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(1) Insufficiency of time
We met in every morning before classes and lunch break except for midterms
and finals. However, our typing speed is
slow so it always took a long time for us to finish an article.
(2) Language ability
We need language ability in either oral communication or writing. When doing interviews, we were timid or
stammering from time to time. Besides, we
had some typo or improper punctuation in our articles. We have to work harder
in improving our language ability.
(3) Inaccessibility of references
The references of our school were stored in the basement before. But because of the flood accompanied by the
typhoon a few years ago, many paper references had been ruined. We could only obtain information from some retired teachers or alumni.
(4) Difficulty in interviews
We had tried to contact some
important people in shuttleball field. However, they were not able to spare
their time to meet us in person. All we
could do is interviewing them through the phone. |
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7.Our Project Sound Bite
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Because our project theme
is a sport, we have the chance to experience it ourselves. We found is very interesting. However, it’s a pity that there is no
shuttleball lesson in our P.E. classes.
Shuttleball has been neglected for long and we didn’t know much about
it. But we understand it more gradually by
making this project. |
