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Technology for creation and self-expression has become one of the defining features of the increased ICT availability of ICT in today's society. OER allows for this creativity and expression; in fact, the power of OER is in its re-use by others, creating a rich learning environment. You benefit from OER, by being able to access a variety of resources for your various learning and teaching needs. Likewise, it is important for you to publish the OER you create, so that it is available to others (for further re-use or re-purposing), to sustain a virtuous cycle of receiving-giving ('''access->create->publish''').
Technology for creation and self-expression has become one of the defining features of the increased ICT availability of ICT in today's society. OER allows for this creativity and expression; in fact, the power of OER is in its re-use by others, creating a rich learning environment. You benefit from OER, by being able to access a variety of resources for your various learning and teaching needs. Likewise, it is important for you to publish the OER you create, so that it is available to others (for further re-use or re-purposing), to sustain a virtuous cycle of receiving-giving ('''access->create->publish->access''').
It is also important for you to access existing OER, revise them to make them more valuable (by improving their accuracy or comprehensiveness, by contextualising them, by translating them etc.), and publishing the revised OER. Such re-purposing and publishing will make it easier for others to get OER that they want ('''access->re-purpose->publish''' or '''access->create->re-purpose->publish''').
It is also important for you to access existing OER, revise them to make them more valuable (by improving their accuracy or comprehensiveness, by contextualising them, by translating them etc.), and publishing the revised OER. Such re-purposing and publishing will make it easier for others to get OER that they want ('''access->re-purpose->publish->access''' or '''access->create->re-purpose->publish->access''').
You have so far maintained your OER in your own computer in your personal digital library. This is accessible only to you. However if you publish your OER on the world wide web, it will be available to anyone, any time. Publishing content on-line is making available, a copy of your personal digital library on the the web, which is like a global digital library.
You have so far maintained your OER in your own computer in your personal digital library. This is accessible only to you. However if you publish your OER on the world wide web, it will be available to anyone, any time. Publishing content on-line is making available, a copy of your personal digital library on the the web, which is like a global digital library.
You can publish your content in one of two ways (or both):
You can publish your content in one of two ways (or both):
# Contributing your creations to existing OER repositories
# Contributing your creations to existing OER repositories
# Maintaining your own web space or blog and making available your OER at a single location
# Maintaining your own personal web space and making available all your OER at a single location
=== Contributing your creation to existing repositories ===
=== Contributing your creation to existing repositories ===
==== Publishing your text OER on text repository ====
==== Publishing your text OER on text repository ====
There are OER repositories for uploading your text resources. [https://wikieducator.org/Main_Page WikiEducator] is a repository specially for sharing educational content. [http://Slideshare.net SlideShare] and [https://www.academia.edu/ Academia.edu] are popular web sites where you can upload your presentation slides and text documents.
There are OER repositories for uploading your text resources. [https://wikieducator.org/Main_Page WikiEducator] is a repository specially for sharing educational [https://www.academia.edu/ Academia.edu] is an OER for sharing articles and academic papers. [http://Slideshare.net SlideShare] is a popular web site where you can upload your presentation slides and text documents in [https://linkedin.com/help/slideshare/answer/53682 different formats].
We have uploaded our slide presentation on our [https://slideshare.net/GurumurthyKasinathan/learning-digital-story-telling SlideShare] account. You too could create your account on [http://Slideshare.net SlideShare] and upload your slide presentation.
<nowiki>***</nowiki>Image - COL - Uploading a slide presentation on SlideShare.png We have uploaded our slide presentation on our [https://slideshare.net/GurumurthyKasinathan/learning-digital-story-telling SlideShare] account. You too could create your account on [http://Slideshare.net SlideShare] and upload your slide presentation.
(It is important to note here that even if you are contributing your resource to a repository that is not OER, you could make your resources OER for anyone to access. Remember always to specify the license of the OER you upload. If you do not specify any license, then the default license 'all rights reserved' will apply, which will make your content a 'non-OER'. You can choose from a variety of [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Creative Commons licenses]).
(It is important to note here that even if you are contributing your resource to a repository that is not OER, you may be able to make your resources OER, for anyone to access. Remember always to specify the license of the OER you upload. If you do not specify any license, then the default license 'all rights reserved' will apply, which will make your content a 'non-OER'. You can choose from a variety of [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Creative Commons licenses]).
==== Contributing to collaborative text OER ====
==== Contributing to collaborative text OER ====
MediaWiki is also a platform on which OER can be published, it is a versatile platform, that has been developed for collaborative OER creation. It allows multiple users to edit the same content, it allows embedding of image, animation, audio and video resources. MediaWiki is most suitable for cases where a group or a community of teachers (could be teachers belonging to one institution or one school system) want to come together to co-create OER.
MediaWiki is also a platform on which OER can be published, it is a versatile platform, that has been developed for collaborative OER creation. It allows multiple users to edit the same content, it allows embedding of image, animation, audio and video resources. MediaWiki is most suitable for cases where a group or a community of teachers (could be teachers belonging to one institution or one school system) want to come together to co-create OER.
==== List of publishing spaces by format of OER ====
==== OER to build communities ====
One of the great challenges that teachers face is isolation in their practice. To address this, communities of practice have been written about as a method of reducing teacher isolation and supporting teacher professional development. When teachers are supported to interact in a free and open technology environment, they are able to support one another in the creation of open educational resources using multiple tools and processes. Such an environment, supported by online and virtual methods, can build collaboration amongst teachers, thus supporting the community as well. OER creation and re-use could well be the context and outcome of teacher communities. Creation of a free and open technology environment is what could make this a reality.
[[Category:Teachers' toolkit for creating and re-purposing OER using FOSS]]
As mentioned earlier, [http://mediawiki.org MediaWiki] is a platform that can be used by Communities of Practice of teachers to collaborate in creating, re-purposing and publishing OER. While Wikipedia is an example of collaboratively created OER, that seeks to meet the information needs of all, the Karnataka Open Educational Resources (KOER) portal aims to meet the needs of teachers of Karnataka. Created by a the Communities of Practice of Government high school teachers, the KOER [http://mediawiki.org MediaWiki] portal has their contribution in the subject areas of Mathematics, Science, Social Science and Languages. This model of OER creation and re-purposing by a community of teachers can be adopted by other institutions or education systems.
=== OER created as part of the toolkit ===
As a part of the toolkit, we worked on OER for the topic 'Learning Digital Story Telling', to demonstrate to you how we could use FOSS applications to create and re-purpose OER. The OER created as a part of this process are available as follows
# [https://teacher-network.in/OER/images/7/7d/Digital_Story_Telling_personal_digital_library_-_Image.mm Concept Map]
# [https://teacher-network.in/OER/images/5/55/Learning_Digital_Story_Telling_%28after_audio_video_OER%29.odt LibreOffice Text document]
# [https://teacher-network.in/OER/images/2/24/Learning_Digital_Story_Telling_-_Slide_presentation.odp LibreOffice slide presentation]
# Images
##[https://teacher-network.in/OER/images/thumb/c/c2/COL_-_Simple_animation_using_Tux_Paint_-_Tree_with_leaves_and_fruits.png/400px-COL_-_Simple_animation_using_Tux_Paint_-_Tree_with_leaves_and_fruits.png Image created using Tux Paint]
##Image created using ScreenShot
##Image edited using GIMP
# Audio recordings
##Audio recording of interview - [https://teacher-network.in/OER/images/1/1d/Interview_-_why_Digital_Story_telling_is_important_1_%28original%29.ogg original]
##Audio recording (edited) - [https://teacher-network.in/OER/images/e/eb/Interview_-_why_Digital_Story_telling_is_important_2_%28edited%29.ogg Moving part of the audio]
##Audio recording (edited) - [https://teacher-network.in/OER/images/5/56/Audio_file_with_background_music_added.ogg background music added]
##Audio recording (edited) - [https://teacher-network.in/OER/images/d/dd/Audio_file_with_background_music_amplified_%28reduced%29.ogg background music Amplification]
# Video recordings
##Video recording of teachers explaining ICT integration - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqM1sSgocZk Original video]
##Video recording (edited) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHyETFkJN-o Moving part of the video]
##Video recording (edited) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0XQCJh-dhc Adding transition]
##Video recording (edited) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7pt9NPEEcc Adding sub-titles]
##Video recording (edited) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFQNcbLe-a8 Fade in and fade out]
The OER created is not intended to be in its final form, for that much more work is required add content to complete the text document, the slide presentation. Work is also required to bring together the text, image, audio and video resources together to make a final OER set on 'learning digital story telling'. However, our purpose in our exercise, which was to only demonstrate to you, how to go about creating, re-purposing and publishing OER, we feel, has been achieved.
===Creating a graphic view of your PDL===
The files created by us as part of the OER creation and re-purposing are stored in folders in our computer. Normally we access these files in a hierarchical manner, by drilling down the folders, sub-folders and sub sub-folders till we reach our files. Freeplane has a feature by which we can import the entire folder/file structure into a concept map. This concept map will show the hierarchy of folders and files through the child nodes and sibling nodes. Each node will display a pink arrow to the left of the name of the folder or file. Clicking on this arrow will open the folder (or the file, using the relevant application). This way you can easily navigate your PDL using a single concept map.
You can refresh this concept map once in a while and import the entire folder structure on your computer, including all your folders and files! This will give you an easy overview of the folders and files on your computer.
=== List of publishing spaces by format of OER ===
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
|'''No'''
|'''No'''
# You need to ensure that you have not used any non-open (copyright) materials in making your OER.
# You need to ensure that you have not used any non-open (copyright) materials in making your OER.
=== Popular OER repositories ===
# Some of the large-scale repositories created through the OER movement include:
# Some of the large-scale repositories created through the OER movement include:
# [https://ocw.mit.edu OpenCourseWare],
# [https://ocw.mit.edu OpenCourseWare],
# [https://www.edutopia.org/open-educational-resources-guide Edutopia]
# [https://www.edutopia.org/open-educational-resources-guide Edutopia]
# [http://libguides.nvcc.edu/c.php?g=361340&p=2439998 Nova Library]
# [http://libguides.nvcc.edu/c.php?g=361340&p=2439998 Nova Library]
