Be Funky! FREE, Simple, Easy-to-use Photo Editing Web 2.0 Tool

What is it? Be Funky is a web 2.0 application that allows students to take any picture and transform it into a cartoon or a sketch.

How do I integrate Be Funky into the classroom: Use Be Funky in conjunction with other tools such a Bubblr or software like 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 (free but asks for an email address). If you plan to have your students transform the pictures into cartoons, you may want to create one class account for students to use. If you want to download the cartoon picture to your computer so that students can use in other projects, take a screen capture of the cartoon and save as an image to your computer.