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We Believe in the Power of WE!
Filed Under (Global Perspective, Special Event) by Mrs. Braidwood on October 11, 2011 and tagged activism, believe, change, children's rights, Free the Children, human rights, humanitarian, Me to We, We Day
We have an amazing opportunity in front of us! The Ripplers are heading to We Day this year and it’s pretty difficult to contain our excitement about it. Stemming from the Me to We movement sparked by the non-profit organization Free the Children, there are several We Day events all across Canada. In each location, the efforts of young people, who are dedicated to learning about social issues and being the change they want to see in this world, are recognized and celebrated.
In a single day we will get a chance to hear:
- children’s rights activist, Craig Kielburger
- former USSR president, Mikhail Gorbachev
- actress and humanitarian, Mia Farrow
- NBA all-star, Shaquille O’Neal
- motivational speaker, Spencer West
- former child soldier, Michel Chikwanine
We will also get the chance to see Hedley, Shawn Desman, and Down With Webster perform. Incredible as that is, additions to this line-up are expected to be announced in the coming days. As part of our preparation to go, we have learned the We Day dance that was chorepgraphed by Shawn Desman to one of his own songs, Night Like This. At some point during this event, he will perform it and the arena will erupt into a sea of dancers.
This past week, we learned that we could enter a contest to potentially win a chance to dance on stage while he performs or the possibility of a dance party at our school with him present. How could we turn that opportunity down? Well, we didn’t. Our original idea to record our class dancing in the gym quickly evolved into a music video and luckily we have a really cool principal who agreed to play a role in it. We’re pretty pleased with what we created. Have fun watching it and wish us luck!
Ripplers … what are your thoughts on our video making process? Did one part of it stand out in your mind more than others? What are your thoughts on attending We Day? What do you hope to get out of the experience?
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October 11th, 2011 at 6:28 pm
Division 1 Students!
Great video performance of your 2011 We Day Dance! You definitely have a chance of getting up on stage now that you have challenged yourselves and submitted this amazing video.
The effect/editing of the video to make it look like Mr. Costain was running towards the large group of you down the hall was well executed.
Wow! Mrs. Braidwood and your students continue to amaze me every day. Keep up the great work…and if you need another chaperone let me know:)
Ms. Rogerson
December 6th, 2011 at 1:24 pm
Celina and I think that you should be in our next music video that we make
It would be lots of fun!
October 11th, 2011 at 8:22 pm
Hello Mrs. Braidwood,
I am so excited for We Day, I can’t believe we are going tomorrow! We are going to hear a lot of cool things. I love are video. I hope we win!
October 12th, 2011 at 9:53 am
Hi Mrs.Braidwood My favourite parts are when we all run down the hall and when we grabbed our shoes! What’s your favourite part?
October 12th, 2011 at 9:58 am
Hi Mrs. Braidwood! Even though I am not participating in We Day, I still look forward to hearing your thoughts about it. Making the video took a lot of hard work and thinking to create this dance the way it is! My favourite part in the video was when Mr. Costain slid do the hallway on his belly! What was you favourite part?
October 12th, 2011 at 10:27 am
Ibelieve I’m going to WeDay. The feeling is undescribable. I can understand why people would whant to chage the world and all the bad in it which is why I’m happy to be a part of this project.
October 12th, 2011 at 10:34 am
I cant believe your taking us to We day! I’m so excited to be going to see some of the world’s most influential people speak about social issues around the world. These people have made a huge difference in making the world we know today. I thank you for this opportunity to go to this event. The way you made the video was okay, but why did it take all day?
October 17th, 2011 at 1:19 pm
Hi Mrs. Braidwood
I can’t believe you took us to We Day it was an amazing experience that I will never forget the story of Micheal Chikawanie, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Craig and Marc Kielburger.
Mrs. Braidwood who was your favorite speaker at We day?
October 24th, 2011 at 1:26 pm
The video making process was fun, I enjoyed it and i liked tobe silly on camera as much as i could. I also like WeDay, it was a good inspirational event and i learned much from it. I think though that my favorite preformance or speaker is Shaquielle O’neal.
November 17th, 2011 at 2:17 pm
Hey Alex my name is Hayze and I am a yr 8 student at Melville Intermediate School New Zealand, Waikato
I am one of the performers in C.P.A that you have commented on and yes it was nervous singing and dancing in front of a live audience but at the end I felt great thanks for commenting.
November 17th, 2011 at 2:23 pm
Hey Emma This is Hayze I preformed Maori, hawaiin and samoan on my class blog thanks for commenting and I use to be a ballet dancer too my favourite sport is Netball and yeah we did have heaps of fun!!!!!
November 18th, 2011 at 1:10 pm
Hello Ripplers!
What a fantastic video you made. I have some student comments for you and a few questions.
“The dancing was great, I’ve never seen anything like that before.” (Miguel)
“I like the cool moves.” (Valerie)
“The song you picked was very nice.” (Jerry)
“The song makes me want to dance.” (Maricarmen)
“I especially liked your dancing outside.” (Juan M.)
“I liked it because you had a chance to be silly.” (Prisila)
Our questions include:
“Who recorded the video?” (Enrique)
“Where did you learn the moves? (Fatima)
“Was this after school, or during class time” (Rosa)
“Who came up with the idea to make the video?” (Pedro)
“Why did you pick that song?” (Jonathan)
Thanks for posting such a fun video!
Mr. Miller’s Class
November 23rd, 2011 at 9:19 am
@ Mr. Miller
Thanks for all those great compliments.The song does make you want to dance. Every time the song comes on our class starts to do the We Day dance!
To answer your questions. Mrs. Braidwood recorded it and it was also her idea to enter this video in the We Day contest. We learned the dance moves off the We Day site. We didn’t pick the song. It is the We Day dance song. We had a lot of fun recording it because it was during class time. Thanks
November 22nd, 2011 at 2:20 am
Hi everyone. That is a very cool video. I’m very impressed with your editing skills – and your persuasive skills in getting your principal to take such a prominent role. Who did the editing?
Has WE Day happened now? I had never heard of it before but it sounds like a wonderful opportunity for you to find out more about important social issues and discuss them with other young people. I would love to hear more about it.
November 23rd, 2011 at 9:20 am
@ Mrs.Thompson.
Mrs.Braidwood did all the editing! Yes We Day has happend now it was a great experience! My favourite part was when Craig and Mark Kielburger spoke.
November 29th, 2011 at 9:33 am
Hi ripple Effect
Your we day video is great. nicholas