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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->access''').   

Technology for creation and self-expression has become one of the defining features of the increased availability of ICT in today's society.  OER further facilitates this creativity and expression. 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->access''' or '''access->create->re-purpose->publish->access''').   

It is also important for you to access existing OER, revise them to make them more valuable (including by improving their accuracy or comprehensiveness or by contextualising them or by translating them), and publishing the revised OER. Such re-purposing and publishing is also a virtuous cycle ('''access->re-purpose->publish->access''' or '''access->create->re-purpose->publish->access''') that will make it easier for others to get OER that they want.   

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.  

=== Contributing your creation to existing repositories ===

=== Contributing your creation to existing repositories ===

You can publish your OER in popular OER repositories, some of which have been mentioned earlier in this toolkit. This chapter briefly discusses OER repositories where you could publish the OER you create or re-purpose.   

You can publish your OER in popular OER repositories, some of which have been mentioned earlier in this toolkit. This chapter briefly discusses OER repositories where you could publish the OER you create or re-purpose. It also provides an example for each section, by uploading the OER created during this toolkit on 'Learning Digital Story Telling', on these repositories.   

==== Publishing your text OER on text repository ====

==== Publishing your text OER on an OER repository ====

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].   

There are OER repositories for uploading your text resources. [https://wikieducator.org/Main_Page WikiEducator] is an OER repository specially for sharing educational  [https://www.academia.edu/ Academia.edu] is a repository 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].   

<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.

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We have uploaded our slide presentation on our [https://slideshare.net/GurumurthyKasinathan/learning-digital-story-telling SlideShare] account.  You too can create your account on [http://Slideshare.net SlideShare] and upload your slide presentation and your text document.  

(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]).  

(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]).