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As teachers, you would no doubt appreciate the effectiveness of an audio visual communication. The audio visual format allows expression by people and this is useful for those who may have an inhibition in expressing themselves in written forms. How liberating it might be for a student struggling with the letters to be able to express a piece of creativity with an audio recording!  Other than as forms of expression, an audio visual communication can be an effective form of digital story telling and creating community stories around people, events and institutions.  With devices like mobiles and sound recorders, creating audio and even video files is becoming easier and more common. Getting familiar with different FOSS tools for creating, re-purposing and publishing audio and video OER can be very useful. In this chapter, you will learn how to create and re-purpose audio and video OER. You will learn

As teachers, you would no doubt appreciate the effectiveness of an audio visual communication. The audio visual format allows expression by people and this is useful for those who may have an inhibition in expressing themselves in written forms. How liberating it might be for a student struggling with the letters to be able to express a piece of creativity with an audio recording!  Other than as forms of expression, an audio visual communication can be an effective form of digital story telling and creating community stories around people, events and institutions.  With devices like mobiles and sound recorders, creating audio and even video files is becoming easier and more common. Getting familiar with different FOSS tools for creating, re-purposing and publishing audio and video OER can be very useful.  

 

In this chapter, you will learn how to create and re-purpose audio and video OER. You will learn

# about popular repositories for accessing audio and video OER

# about popular repositories for accessing audio and video OER

# how to create audio resources using your audio recorder (in your mobile phone)

# how to create audio resources using your audio recorder (in your mobile phone)

When you visit the site or check a specific resource, you need to look for copyright information to ascertain that the audio resource is OER and you can re-use it. If the resource is not explicitly declared to be an OER (allowing you to re-use), you should not use it in creating your OER.  The search for audio OER is can be made easier by [[Teachers' toolkit for creating and re-purposing OER using FOSS/Text OER|providing OER as a criteria in your search itself.]]

When you visit the site or check a specific resource, you need to look for copyright information to ascertain that the audio resource is OER and you can re-use it. If the resource is not explicitly declared to be an OER (allowing you to re-use), you should not use it in creating your OER.  The search for audio OER is can be made easier by [[Teachers' toolkit for creating and re-purposing OER using FOSS/Text OER|providing OER as a criteria in your search itself.]]

=== Accessing video OER repositories ===

=== Accessing video OER repositories ===

#[http://Youtube.com Youtube]   is a popular repository for videos, it contains both OER and non OER videos. It is the largest collection of videos in the world.  Note that as per [https://youtube.com/t/terms Youtube terms of use], unless you see a “download” or similar link displayed by YouTube on that page, you should not download. But you could use a [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/video-downloader-player third party add-on] available in Mozilla Firefox to download videos, which are licensed under creative commons. [http://commons.wikimedia.org Wikimedia] is another resource for various media -including audio and video.

#[http://Youtube.com Youtube] is a popular repository for videos, it contains both OER and non OER videos. It is the largest collection of videos in the world.  Note that as per [https://youtube.com/t/terms Youtube terms of use], unless you see a “download” or similar link displayed by YouTube on that page, you should not download. But you could use a [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/video-downloader-player third party add-on] available in Mozilla Firefox to download videos, which are licensed under creative commons. [http://commons.wikimedia.org Wikimedia] is another resource for various media -including audio and video.

#There are other OER video sources too, you can visit, such as Vimeo . [[wikipedia:List_of_educational_video_websites|Wikipedia]] has a list of educational video websites.  A google search on ‘OER Videos’ will also give you a list of sites to explore.

#There are other OER video sources too, you can visit, such as Vimeo . [[wikipedia:List_of_educational_video_websites|Wikipedia]] has a list of educational video websites.  A google search on ‘OER Videos’ will also give you a list of sites to explore.

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=== Creating audio resources using your audio recorder (in your mobile phone) ===

=== Creating audio resources using your audio recorder ===

You can record an audio clip using your mobile phone itself, using any audio recording app, such as ‘[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sonymobile.androidapp.audiorecorder Audio Recorder]’. You can copy the audio file from your phone to your computer for editing and re-mixing to create OER. While recording, make sure that no copyright music or sound is playing in the background. We have recorded a short interview with a teacher on why Digital Storytelling is important, using a mobile phone. We  have copied this audio clip to our computer, by connecting the mobile phone to the computer with a data cable and renamed the file as ‘Interview - why Digital Storytelling.’

You can record an audio clip using your mobile phone itself, using any audio recording app, such as ‘[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sonymobile.androidapp.audiorecorder Audio Recorder]’. You can copy the audio file from your phone to your computer for editing and re-mixing to create OER. While recording, make sure that no copyright music or sound is playing in the background. We have recorded a short interview with a teacher on why Digital Storytelling is important, using a mobile phone. We  have copied this audio clip to our computer, by connecting the mobile phone to the computer with a data cable and renamed the file as ‘Interview - why Digital Storytelling.’

Click [[File:Interview - why Digital Story telling is important 1 (original).ogg]] to listen to the audio.

Click [[File:Interview - why Digital Story telling is important 1 (original).ogg]] to listen to the audio.

=== Editing audio resources using audio editor(Audacity) ===

=== Editing audio resources using audio editor - Audacity ===

You can use Audacity to edit your audio clips. Audacity is a simple yet powerful application for audio editing. You can also use it to record audio.

You can use Audacity to edit your audio clips. Audacity is a simple yet powerful application for audio editing. You can also use it to record audio.

Open Audacity  on your computer, through <u>Applications → Sound and Video → Audacity</u>

Open Audacity  on your computer, through <u>Applications → Sound and Video → Audacity</u>