Dipping toes in eTwinning

This autumn we will try to connect with the French students and learn a thing or two about France.
The first things that seem to come to our mind in connection with this lovely country not so far away from us are Paris and Eiffel tower, cheese, wine, perfumes, fashion, skiing slopes, French classes at school (a funny language with complicated pronunciation ;-)), the Petzl climbing equipment, the Citroen car manufecturer, the Disneyland park, and famous people like President Sarkozy, the actor Jean Reno, the rally driver Sebastien Loeb and the prankster Remi Gaillard.
What does our informatics group look like? Meet our South Park avatars created in phase 1 of our eTwinning Things that matter project using SP Studio.

Nice, aren't we?
And this is our mechatronics group.

Fashion and clothes at our school

These two collages have been created to chime in Schools Around the Globe fashion and clothes topic.
At our school students wear what they like – there are no uniforms. Our school is a technical school centre - it includes many technical secondary schools (computer science, mechanical engineering, electronics, metalwork...) and some college courses. There aren't many girls around, we mostly have boys' classes.

This group are mechatronics students:

This is their view of fashion and clothes; their reply to my questions: How important are fashion and clothes to you? and How would you describe a typical student at our school?
We generally don’t care much about fashion. We wear casual clothes, whatever we feel comfortable in. A typical TŠC student wears jeans or sports clothes, perhaps a hoody and a jacket - simple and practical clothes. Different students like different styles, like everywhere else – ranging from metal to emo or skaters' or metalhead looks. Clothes sometimes tell a lot about people who wear them – about the kind of music they listen to, how much money they spend on them, how much they care about their looks.

This group are informatics students:

And this is their reply to my questions above:
Some of us seem to care about fashion more than others, but the general view seems to be that it's more important that you feel good in whatever you put on and that there's not much point in spending a fortune on clothes. A typical student at our school wears jeans, a t-shirt or a pullover, a jacket, sports shoes or trainers – casual clothes, not necessarily latest fashion.
Students lego avatars have been created using The Mini-Mizer I was alerted to this site via Nik Peachy's blog.