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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.
[[Category:Teachers' toolkit for creating and re-purposing OER using FOSS]]
[[Category:Teachers' toolkit for creating and re-purposing OER using FOSS]]
=== OER created as part of the toolkit ===
=== 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
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
##Video recording (edited) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFQNcbLe-a8 Fade in and fade out]
##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.
We have copied the text from the LibreOffice text document onto the WordPress page and inserted the Concept Map. The web address of one audio and one video is embedded on this page. The aim is to demonstrate how you can bring together text, image, audio and video resources relating to one topic on one page on your WordPress blog, This will allow all your OER on a topic to be strung together providing greater coherence and quality. You can create any number of such pages on different topics that you are creating and re-purposing OER on.
(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).
=== 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.
==== Communities of Practice and OER - a symbiotic relationship ====
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.
===Creating a graphic view of your PDL===
===Creating a graphic view of your PDL===
