ROW: Walking Our School

Our class has been doing R.O.W [Rock Our World] and everyone in our class has a job for R.O.W, my job is the W.O.W [Walk Our World] team. The W.O.W team is Dylan, Leija and me, Hannah.

Our job is to organise the walking that our class does to help walk around the world, and to make the track that we walk.

We have made a chart that everyone has to record how many km's they have walked. Our aim is to get the whole school walking the track that we have made. The reason we are doing this is because we are trying to walk around the world! Its also good training for cross country.

Meeting a shoe designer

On Friday the 12th of March room 17 communicated with D'wayne Edwards the leading designer for Nike, through the computer. We asked hundreds of questions, Miss Davies fingers tirelessly typing on the computer.

"It's NewZealand again", we would hear every 5 minutes .

D'wayne Edwards said New Zealand was on fire. We invited him down and he even considered coming here.

Through the time we got to chat with him he talked about when he was young and how he became a top shoe designer, as well as questions in between and facts about shoes he designed.

He talked to us about never giving up and when you focus your mind on doing something you will get there one day. He told us his 2b pencil took him around the world. His mother gave him a note that said "There is no limit to what you can do. Believe in what tomorrow will bring". He told us how when he was 11 he decided that his dream was going to be designing shoes.

He had lots of perseverance and that's how he reached his goal.

So if you have a life long dream that you want to follow, if you put your mind to it, you will get there soon.

7teen Crew First Meeting with D'Wayne Edwards

We had the honour of meeting (live the internet) with D'Wayne Edwards the lead shoe designer for Nike. He took us through how to design a shoe. Can't wait to design the next big shoe for Nike! It will Rock Our World!

Rock Our World:WOW

For Rock Our World we have been focusing on the theme "change" We have been making a product story about the making of a shoe, a t-shirt and other similar items to make.

Our Product story was about what theme (slogan) we will have, our story about what the theme means to us, an inspiration made up of 4 words that describes our theme with pictures and about the consumer which tells the customer what they'll want and find about the item. Everybody got in pairs and together the pairs all made one of the Product stories.

After one day of starting a product story, Miss Davies got everyone back on the mat and then Miss Davies got another Product Story sheet and then everyone told Miss Davies ideas for he theme which was "Change you attitude! - Make a Difference ", A Story about our theme which was made up of mixed ideas, an inspiration with pictures from ideas and then voting for 4 words and a consumer part about the customer also from mixed ideas.

We had also placed job application forms in a folder and also had job descriptions to tell us about what jobs we could apply for. Miss Davies talked to us about all the jobs and what we have to know and do to apply for the job. When we filled in the forms, Miss Davies made a little box to put the job applications in.

The jobs were Story team member, Design team member, "CHANGE" team member, WOW team member, Presentation team member, Media Team Member, Graphics team member and Colours team member.

We also have to walk as many kilometres as we can and equal to walking all the kilometres around the world which is over 40,000 kilometres and the WOW team have to make a track and encourage more kids to walk the track and have to figure out how to keep track of how many laps the kids have walked.

What I am looking forward to doing is talking to D'Wayne Edwards on Friday - He will be telling us how to design a shoe.

Walk our World:WOW

So far for WOW we are up to making our Product story and deciding which one we want. Today on the 12th of March we will be talking to Dwayne Edwards the designer for Nike (but schools from all over the world will be participating), about the shoe and what we need to know about it.

Everyone has signed up for a job/s they would like to do, like me I wanted to do colours (because I didn't want the colours on the shoe to look stink) and designing (I so did not want the shoe to look stink and to make sure they look mean Maori mean).

There will be a Designing team which will take control of designing the shoe, with our theme as !!Change!!,

The colours team will be in control of the colours on the shoe (of course), Graphics team will be in charge of creating our logo for the shoe and t-shirts. They have one of the most important jobs - the logo will either be about our theme change, Rock Our World or WOW. The WOW team will have one of the most important jobs, we will be setting up a track around the school or something like that and they will be walking around it (and the track will be measured) because we want enough steps to reach around the world.

The other WOW team will be in charge for keeping everything together checking on how everyone is going (like the mother of everything), the media team will be in charge of keeping everyone (you people reading and going on our 7teen blog) updated on how we are going what we are doing, filming everything, interviewing people, taking photo's and putting them up on the blog for the people out there to look at - like my beautiful face.

The Story team will be responsible for creating and choosing our real product story (because the one I was talking about was our brief one) on Change using pics, tittles and people.

Last but not least our Presentation team will have THE most important job of all - they will weather they like it or not - be in charge of presenting our final presentation to all of the schools around the world that will be participating in WOW.

I am really excited and I hope that our shoes will be designed and chosen.

7teen Crew Rock Our World!

Rock Our World has started! Yay!
Room 17 is excited to be involved in this round of ROW.
We can't wait to hear from people all around the world that are involved in this fun project. We welcome all comments and would love to be able to keep in contact with you all.
Please let us know where you are from as we have a big map in the classroom that we are using to track our visitors.
So lets go - happy blogging!