O.M.G.

My apologies for the late edition of Fresh Look Fridays today, but the last few days have been busy, busy, busy!! Our 7-month-old is keeping me on my toes these days.  But really, how can I say no to those baby blues:

Anyhoo...

With the countdown to the death of Picnik rapidly ticking away, many hack wannabe amateur photographers (myself included) were left thinking, "Oh no! How am I going to make my average looking photos worthy posting online and garnering numerous likes and comments??"  Fear no more, my friends -- Foto Flexer has arrived.

I highly recommend looking into using this awesome online photo editing tool for any classroom activity involving a visual aspect.  Although most of my Fresh Look Fridays posts are designed for use on your SMART Board, Foto Flexer is best used in a 1:1 classroom scenario, or a class taking place in a computer lab.  

The concept is really simple.  Upload your photo, and play around with the tools available to turn this:

into this:

or this:

or even this:

Experiment with the added effects, text, crop, animation, etc...the possibilities are endless! 

Love, love, LOVE this website.  I know that if you give it a shot with your students, you will too.

Happy weekend everyone,

Vanessa