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In the previous chapters of this toolkit, you have accessed existing text, image, audio and video OER from the Web, to create and re-purpose OER.  You have so far retained your OER in  your personal digital library, in your own computer.  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.   

In the previous chapters of this toolkit, you have accessed existing text, image, audio and video OER from the Web, to create and re-purpose OER.  You have so far retained your OER in  your personal digital library (PDL), in your own computer.  This is accessible only to you. You can create a concept map of your PDL automatically using Freeplane, and use this map to navigate your PDL.

 

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.   

''The power of OER is in its re-use,'' for various learning and teaching needs. It is important for you to publish the OER you create, so that it is available to others for re-use or re-purposing, to sustain a ''virtuous cycle of receiving-giving'' ('''access->create->publish->access'''). It is also important 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 publish the revised OER. Such re-purposing and publishing is also a ''virtuous cycle'' ('''access->re-purpose->publish->access''').   

''The power of OER is in its re-use,'' for various learning and teaching needs. It is important for you to publish the OER you create, so that it is available to others for re-use or re-purposing, to sustain a ''virtuous cycle of receiving-giving'' ('''access->create->publish->access'''). It is also important 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 publish the revised OER. Such re-purposing and publishing is also a ''virtuous cycle'' ('''access->re-purpose->publish->access''').   

===Creating a graphic view of your PDL===

===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.

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. We have created a [https://teacher-network.in/OER/images/7/7d/Digital_Story_Telling_personal_digital_library_-_Image.mm concept map of our PDL] on 'learning digital story telling' using Freeplane, to automatically import the folders, sub-folders and files relating to the text, image, animation, audio and video OER created and re-purposed by us.

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.

 

 

You too can create a similar concept map of your PDL folders. You can refresh this concept map once in a while. You can also create a concept map by importing the entire folder structure on your computer by including all your folders and files! This will give you an easy overview of the folders and files on your computer and you can navigate your folders and files using this map.