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Open LibreOffice Writer on your computer, through Applications → Office – LibreOffice Writer.

Open LibreOffice Writer on your computer, through Applications → Office – LibreOffice Writer.

We create a text document - ‘Learning Digital Story Telling’. Create a folder on your computer “Digital Story Telling OER”. Save “Learning Digital Story Telling” in this folder. Saving this document, creates a text document  “Learning Digital Story Telling.odt” where odt stands for Open Document Text.

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The concept map that you have prepared for your topic can give you a plan for writing the text document. You will also referr to the OER text resources from Wikipedia and other sites for your topic that you have searched.

You should create a ‘new’ document, giving the title as the topic name of your OER. We have created a document called- ‘Learning Digital Story Telling’ and this is saved in the personal digital library folder. You should save this document, on your folder created for your personal digital library. Saving this document, creates a text document “Learning Digital Story Telling.odt” where odt stands for Open Document Text.  The concept map that you have prepared for your topic can give you a plan for writing the text document. You will also refer to the OER text resources from Wikipedia and other sites for your topic that you have searched.

 

You can similarly create your own text OER. You will learn the following basic functions in a text editor which you need to use in creating OER.

You can similarly create your own text OER. You will learn the following basic functions in a text editor which you need to use in creating OER.

# Entering text

# Entering and formatting text

# Formating text

# Inserting a numbered list

# Inserting a numbered list

# Inserting a table / box item

# Inserting a table / box item

# Insert section headings

# Insert section headings

==== Entering text ====

 

==== Entering and formatting text ====

You can enter text by simply typing into this document. In our document, we have entered text under following four paragraphs

You can enter text by simply typing into this document. In our document, we have entered text under following four paragraphs

- Why Digital Story Telling

It is important that you chose only [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_font UNICODE font] for the text entry. Non-UNICODE fonts are likely to not render correctly on a web page. Ubuntu GNU/Linux uses only UNICODE fonts, hence you will not have any problems. However if you are using Microsoft Windows, your system may have non-UNICODE fonts, which you should not use. 

==== Formatting text ====

You can format your text in many ways. Click on the Format menu option of LibreOffice Writer to see the options. Commonly used formatting includes selecting text to highlight it through the ‘bold’ ‘italic’ or ‘underline’ functions. You can change the font, font colour and font size of select text as well. All these can be done through the Format → Text menu, or by clicking the relevant icon in the menu tool bar. Remember to select the text before clicking on these options.<br>

 

 

 

=====UNICODE font=====

 

 

You can format your text in many ways either through <u>Format--->Text</u> or <u>Format--->Character</u> or by changing the parameters on the tool bar. Click on the Format menu option of LibreOffice Writer to see the options. Commonly used formatting includes selecting text to highlight it through the ‘bold’ ‘italic’ or ‘underline’ functions, changing the font color or size and adding text highlighting. All these functionalities are also available on the tool bar.

Inserting a numbered list

Here we will take a section from our document and format to make it bold, italicized or underlined.  Remember to select the text before clicking on these options.<br>

You may be making a list of items in your document. Instead of manually entering the numbers, you could use automatic numbering.

You may be making a list of items in your document. Instead of manually entering the numbers, you could use automatic numbering.