Be Funky...

As more and more teachers are booking Technology Sessions with me for their students, I have come to notice a common theme to the tools they are asking me to teach them about. All the tools are using pictures--Photostory, Comic Life, and Glogster just to name a few.

In each case, students are being asked to use their creative skills to marry the contextual ideas with images--to produce a photo essay, a comic book or an interactive poster.

Once presented with the assignment and the instructions on how to use the technology, most students head straight to Google Images and start downloading images off the Internet.

But what if they could make the photo's their 'own'.

Could they Be Funky? 

I think so!

Last night, while avoiding the dishes, I became lost on the Internet. I'm not sure how I ended up at the Be Funky site, but I was so intrigued by the possibilities that I felt the urge to blog about it. 

So here it is.

The Be Funky site allows you to add artistic effects to your photos--ones you have taken yourself with a real camera or images you have saved off the Internet--all for free. No login or account required.

Here's the result of 10 minutes of 'lost time':

The original photo..

Effect #1...

 Effect #2...

 A little pop art....

Old school comic life....

Just imagine the possibilities!