My Mess-terpiece

Look at Me

Creating the Mess-terpiece

I had fun creating my self portrait using Picassohead.com.  I picked what looked like  "duck face" lips to keep up with those millennials who are constantly taking self photos for their Instagram.

The site wasn't too complicated to use.  Simply drag and drop facial features to the canvas and off you go to create your own self portrait.  Colors were easy to use and the site also gave the RGB numbers so you could go back and use the exact same color again instead of guessing.

The Connections

Standard  1:  "Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning" is the connection.  Exercises like this - simple to use web sites - help students learn by doing something different.  The simple drag and drop features emphasize the topic being taught and not how to use the website.  These sites inspire students to explore.   Questions like "What happens when I do this?" flow freely in the classroom.  Students' natural curiosity facilitate and inspire learning on sites like this. The really neat thing about sites like this is that they are free.  I constantly use free graphing calculator sites in my classes.  Currently I use this free calculator.