Be+Funky

= = = = = = toc =Be Funky: Photo Editing= [|BeFunky.com]

=Why Use BeFunky?= Befunky.com is a website where you can take or upload pictures and edit them. You can add effects to your photo, change your appearance, add holiday themes, and wear accessories. Not only is it fun, but it can also be used for educaitonal purposes. For example, you are doing a report on Abraham Lincoln and with befunky.com, you can edit a picture to make yourself look just like Abraham Lincoln.

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Here is an example of a fun photo made on Befunky.com. I can celebrate Christmas by editing a picture adding Christmas decorations. Before After

=Blog About BeFunky:= iLearn Technology blogs about BeFunky.com in their blog Be Funky. []

  **What it is:** __**[|Be Funky]**__is a web 2.0 application that lets students take any picture and transform it into a cartoon or a sketch **How to integrate** [|Be Funky] **into the classroom:** Use __**[|Be Funky]**__ in conjunction with other tools such a Bubblr (see post from the 16th) or software like Comic Life (check out iLearn Technology store for Comic Life). Since __**[|Be Funky]**__ changes a regular photograph into a cartoon, you can create cartoon comic strips in class. Transform field trip pictures into cartoons and invite students to create a comic strip retell about the field trip. Students can be the star of their own comic strips where they create a comic autobiography. Take pictures during a science experiment and create a comic strip with the scientific process of the experiment. **Tips:** __**[|Be Funky]**__ requires you to have an account (this is free but asks for an email address). If you plan on having your students transform the pictures into cartoons you may think about creating one class account for students to use. I wanted to download the cartoon picture to my computer so that I could use them in Comic Life. This is not an option that __**[|Be Funky]**__ offers so I created my cartoon and then took a screen capture of the cartoon to save it as an image to my computer.

= H ow to use BeFunky: Step by Step= This is how you upload a photo and edit it on befunky.com!

Step 1: After typing in befunky.com into the address bar, a page will appear with different effects you can use to edit your picture. Choose one of the effects. I will use pop art.

Step 2: After choosing an effect, click the upload button. Then coose if you want to upload or take a picture on a webcame. Browse files and choose a picture.

I chose a picture of two friends and me. Click the pop art form you want for your picture. I will use this one. Then save the picture by clicking save and naming the picture.

My picture has been edited! Ta Da!


  =BeFunky: Video Example= [|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT3rEHUtsGM] media type="youtube" key="DT3rEHUtsGM" width="425" height="350" =BeFunky: Other Uses= You can also use befunky.com to tell a story. I edited pictures to make them fit the story Cinderella.





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