Digital cameras are a great way to extend your instruction and permit students to create projects that prove their understanding of concepts taught in the classroom. On January 30 at Olive Branch we’ll be having workshops showing how to integrate technology ideas in your lessons using digital cameras.
The JT art teacher recently sat down with me to plan for a unit about Andy Warhol coming up in January. I found a great website that uses this concept (not all topics are free), but an example of one use is the Warholizer at BigHugeLabs. Students take a picture, upload it to the website at http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/, and voila, instant Warhol art!
Another site that I found from reading Karen’s blog is Befunky* which allows you to “cartoonize” your pictures. Save it as a jpg and load these up to PowerPoint backgrounds, pictures for word processing–possibilities are endless! [*after looking at it again, some of the sidebar advertisements are not appropriate for school settings, so you will need to prepare the pictures at home]
The Flickr site has a myriad of possibilities, such as framing (left) or I “hockneyized” my style of shoes (middle), and changed them into bead art (right):
Check it out and prepare to let your technology integration creativity flow!
January 9, 2009 update: Here’s another site that looks great: http://www.pizap.com/index.htm
By: dsmith on December 19, 2008 at 9:05 am
whey kuhl
By: nancybutler on December 19, 2008 at 9:52 am
Love it! I am really gonna have some fun with these!