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One of the ways of making OER powerful and high quality is by suitably integrating multiple resource formats. Images can be embedded / inserted into a text document. The image and the related text enhance the value of the other in the document.
 
One of the ways of making OER powerful and high quality is by suitably integrating multiple resource formats. Images can be embedded / inserted into a text document. The image and the related text enhance the value of the other in the document.
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We have already seen in the previous chapter on text OER how to export a concept map as an image and save in in your resource folder. This image of a concept map can be inserted into a text document; we have inserted our concept map on digital story telling into a document on digital story telling.
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We have already seen in the previous chapter on text OER how to export a concept map as an image and save in in your resource folder. This image of a concept map can be inserted into a text document; we have inserted our concept map on digital story telling into a document on digital story telling. We will open LibreOfficeWriter. (<u>Application -> Office -> LibreOffice Writer</u>) and open the document we have been working on in the previous chapter "Learning Digital Story Telling.odt". You can increase or reduce the size of this image by moving your cursor to one of the vertices of the image and drag-dropping your cursor.
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We will create a section ‘Concept map’ in the document.  Move the cursor below this heading and select <u>Insert → Image</u>. LibreOffice Writer will open the file browser. Use file browser to select the image file of your concept map. The image will be inserted in your text document as shown.
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We will export the concept map we created to an image format as “Learning Digital Story Telling.jpeg” and insert it in our “Learning Digital Story Telling.odt”.
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By inserting images into a text document, you can present a story a series of text and images, this is called a [[wikipedia:Picture_book|picture book]]. Picture stories are useful to support language learning. The student can associate the word with the image and can build a [http://pictionary.gyza.cz/ pictionary].
 
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Open Freeplane. Select <u>File → Export</u>
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You will get a form with options for ‘File type’. Chose the file type ‘png’ which is a popular and open image format.
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You can save this image file in your ‘concept map’ sub-folder within your topic folder
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We will open LibreOfficeWriter. (<u>Application -> Office -> LibreOffice Writer</u>) and open the document we have been working on in the previous chapter "Learning Digital Story Telling.odt"
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We will create a section ‘Concept map’ in the document.  Move the cursor below this heading and select <u>Insert → Image</u>. LibreOffice Writer will open the file browser. Use file browser to select the image file of your concept map. The image will be inserted in your text document as shown.
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You can increase or reduce the size of this image by moving your cursor to one of the vertices of the image and drag-dropping your cursor.
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By inserting images into a text document, you can present a story a series of text and images, this is called a [[wikipedia:Picture_book|picture book]]. Picture stories are useful to support language learning. The student can associate the word with the image (which can be a picture or a drawing of the item that the word represents).
      
==== Presenting image resources in a ‘slide presentation’ format (''LibreOffice Impress'') ====
 
==== Presenting image resources in a ‘slide presentation’ format (''LibreOffice Impress'') ====

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