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• School: Ökumenisches Gymnasium zu Bremen
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  Ökumenisches Gymnasium zu Bremen
  Oberneulander Landstraße 143a
  D-28355 Bremen
  Germany
• Our 13th grade informatics class consisting of 7 students aged 18 to 19 and their teacher participated.
  For more details see our About Us-page.
• Thanks to:
  • The University of Bremen for providing Internet access.
  • NIK (Norddeutsches Institut für Kurzzeittherapie) who borrowed us their nice QuickTake camera to take the photos.
  • Irene Bunnemann who borrowed us her PowerBook for the day we went out to take the photos.
  • Pete Keleher, the author of the powerful shareware editor Alpha and Netscape for providing our main development tools for this project.
  • All the other Web-publishers and Internet-community-members whose WWW-pages gave us hints how to cope with HTML.
• To contact us via e-mail, just send an e-mail to our school account (please indicate the subject clearly because the whole school has to share one account) here or using the mail button on the bottom of any page.

Project Overview

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• Project Summary
  

Project Elements

1. How did your activities and research for this International School CyberFair 96 project support your required coursework and curriculum requirements?

As we are relatively free to choose what to do in informatics during our last term, after having done the basics of the programming laguage Pascal and having taken a look at Assembler before, we chose communications as our subject.

So it came in handy to do the CyberFair project as it was the best way to incorporate both theoretical and practical aspects of global communications. As our school is currently busy to create it's own Web-pages (getting away all this "Under Construction" stuff and putting there some facts) which of course is first done in German, this project is considered useful to promote the use of the Internet either via e-mail to get new contacts or by creating Web-pages.

In addition like this the fears people have when they hear words like Internet may be reduced and they might get incorporated in global communications more easily which is very important nowadays.

2. What information tools and technologies did you use to complete your CyberFair project?

As our school's resources are relatively poor we couldn't do fancy things like videos or even videoconferencing.

To get done our basic work we had to do with (9) Mac LCII s in our informatics lab (Running an editor and Netscape on such a machine with only 4MB physical RAM is a real pain!). For the harder work we could use our PowerMac 6100 with 24MB RAM. This is also the machine we used for our Modem (PPP)-Connections to the university to get Internet-access.

To collect information we used several books and brochures which are listed in our Bibliography. As there isn't a Web-site concerning the Bremer Haus yet, we couldn't get any information out of the Internet.

To cope with the pictures we used a borrowed QuickTake and our old Apple grayscale scanner.

Our favourite software tools were - as mentioned above - Alpha and Netscape. In addition we used the "Grafikkonverter" to polish up our QuickTake pictures a bit.

3. In what ways did you act as "ambassadors" and spokespersons for your CyberFair project both on-line and in person?

Concerning this aspect there wasn't much we could do, as we were able to get all the knowledge we needed out of local libraries or our private resources. The "Amt für Denkmalpflege" that takes care of the Bremer Häuser didn't have any additional information and borrowing the QuickTake wasn't a big action either...

4. What has been the impact of your project on your community?

As our project concerns different communities

• our informatics course for the creation,
• our whole school because of the new medium Internet,
• the Internet itself as a "victim" of our project,
• the whole of Bremen due to the fact that the Bremer Haus is a part of Bremen's history and culture - a so-called "Bremensie" and
• the middle and working classes around the end of the last century

no unified impact can be declared because the latter two communities aren't affected at all.

Taking a look at our whole school this project will hopefully make a difference as like this a foundation for publishings by our school in the Internet is set and people start getting aware of it.

The largest impact however was on our informatics course because we had the chance to get the Internet "hands-on" over an extended period of time.

5. How did your project involve other members of your community as helpers and volunteers?

Astonishinly we didn't need that much direct help through the Internet during project creation. As some of us already knew HTML (and don't remember who helped them with it back then) we were able to distribute this knowledge within our group. Additional knowledge about HTML we got by peeking into other people's Web-pages - so it was a more passive method.

6. What other things have you done at your school to "Share and Unite" with your community?

As I already wrote we want to promote the use of the Internet at our school. So some pupils (and they are getting more) are regularly exchanging e-mails with friends in the US for example.

Furthermore we posted our Homepage-address to many sites so there regularly are e-mails from other schools concerning e-mail-projects or simply simple questions like for example about Christmas in Germany or eating habits in Northern Germany (no, it's not Sauerkraut...).