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# Contribute your creations to existing OER repositories
# Contribute your creations to existing OER repositories
# Maintain your own personal web space and make available all your OER at a single location
# Maintain your own personal web space and make available all your OER at a single location
=== Providing metadata for your OER ===
[[wikipedia:Metadata|Metadata]] is defined as 'data about data'. In our context, it means additional information about the OER, which will be useful for others. It will include the following data elements:
# Name of the file
# Name of the author
# License information (you may chose any of the Creative Commons licenses)
# Document date (may be creation date and or publishing date)
# Key words for the OER
It is a useful convention to provide metadata for any OER you create or re-purpose.
{| class="wikitable"
|'''Activity time -''' Provide metadata consisting of your name, file name, license information, document creation date and keywords for the OER on all your OER documents. In the case of text documents, you can provide this information at the beginning or end of the OER document. In case of image OER, you can open the image file using GIMP and enter this metadata, using the File -> Properties option.
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=== Contributing your creation to existing repositories ===
=== Contributing your creation to existing repositories ===
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
|'''Activity time -''' You too can create your account on SlideShare and upload your slide presentation and your text document. You should specify '''Public''<nowiki/>' in the 'Privacy' settings, to make the document available to all.
|'''Activity time - C''reate your account on SlideShare and upload your slide presentation and your text document. You should specify '''''<nowiki/>''Public''<nowiki/>' in the 'Privacy' settings, to make the document available to all.
You can use the SlideShare web space to regularly upload your text documents and slide presentation OER on different topics.
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==== Contributing to collaborative text OER ====
==== Contributing to collaborative text OER ====
You can also contribute your text OER to [https://en.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia], the most visited OER in the world. You can either create a new web-page or edit an existing page on Wikipedia. This encyclopedia has grown to be the most referred-to encyclopedia, by the collaborative efforts of a world-wide community of Wikipedia editors. Contributing to Wikipedia is even more important if you are creating an OER in a language other than English. Most languages of the world, especially languages spoken in the developing countries, are not well represented on Wikipedia (see [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias List of Wikipedias]). Since Wikipedia is a popular encyclopedia, if you could regularly contribute your OER to Wikipedia, it would be useful to many others. You will need to create your account on Wikipedia follow its [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Ten_Simple_Rules_for_Editing_Wikipedia|editing guidelines]].
You can also contribute your text OER to [https://en.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia], the most visited OER in the world. This encyclopedia has grown to be the most referred-to encyclopedia, by the collaborative efforts of a world-wide community of Wikipedia editors. Contributing to Wikipedia is even more important if you are creating an OER in a language other than English. Most languages of the world, especially languages spoken in the developing countries, are not well represented on Wikipedia (see [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias List of Wikipedias]). Since Wikipedia is a popular encyclopedia, if you could regularly contribute your OER to Wikipedia, it would be useful to many others. You will need to create your account on Wikipedia and follow its [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Ten_Simple_Rules_for_Editing_Wikipedia|editing guidelines]]. If you have created text OER which is not available in the Wikipedia page for the relevant topic, you should add the content to the existing page, or create a new page, if a page for the topic does not exist.
If you have created text OER which is not available in the Wikipedia page for the relevant topic, you should add the content to the existing page, or create a new page, if a page for the topic does not exist.
[https://www.oercommons.org/ OER commons] is another repository where you can join and create text OER, enriched with media OER; this site also allows you to build lessons and modules.
[https://www.oercommons.org/ OER commons] is another repository where you can join and create text OER, enriched with media OER; this site also allows you to build lessons and modules.
As we saw earlier, you should publish in formats that are open and easier to edit. A web page is usually in the .html format which is an open format. In case you are uploading a document (file) on-line, you should prefer an odt over a pdf format (editable v/s non-editable format) for publishing a text document. Again you should prefer an odt over a docx format (open v/s closed formats).
As we saw earlier, you should publish in formats that are open and easier to edit. A web page is usually in the .html format which is an open format. In case you are uploading a document (file) on-line, you should prefer an odt over a pdf format (editable v/s non-editable format) and over a docx format (open v/s closed formats) for publishing a text document.
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|'''Activity time -''' If you can type in a language other than English, you should create or edit an existing Wikipedia page related to your topic. Create your account on Wikipedia and add the page or edit the page for your topic. Editing a Wikipedia page is similar to using your LibreOffice text editor. You should refer to the English page for the same topic, as an exemplar, along with following the editing guidelines. If you edit a few times, you may find yourself addicted to it!!
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==== Publishing your image and audio visual OER ====
==== Publishing your image and audio visual OER ====
=== Creating your own web space and publishing OER ===
=== Creating your own web space and publishing OER ===
You can create your own (blog) site on [http://Wordpress.com. Wordpress]. If you would like to upload all your OER in a single place to make it available to others, this is a good option. [http://Wordpress.com. Wordpress] is a simple software for you to manage your web content. You could also maintain your own blogs with an organized collection of all OER created by you.
You may want to keep all your OER in a single space on the web, instead of in different repositories. The advantage of uploading your OER in the different popular repositories (as explained above) is that more people are likely to visit these repositories and may find your OER by searching for the topic on which you have uploaded your OER. On the other hand, if you think you would like to actively direct people to a specific place to look for all your OER (and you are a prolific OER creator), then another option is to have your own OER space on the web.
You can create your own (blog) site by registering on [http://Wordpress.com. Wordpress]. If you would like to upload all your OER in a single place to make it available to others, this is a good option. [http://Wordpress.com. Wordpress] is a simple software for you to manage your web content. You could maintain your own blogs on your [http://Wordpress.com. Wordpress] site, with an organized collection of all OER created by you.
[[File:COL - Publishing OER on your blog (Wordpress).png|left|thumb|450x450px|Image 3 - Publishing OER on your blog (Wordpress)]]
[[File:COL - Publishing OER on your blog (Wordpress).png|left|thumb|450x450px|Image 3 - Publishing OER on your blog (Wordpress)]]
We have uploaded the text document content and the concept map image on our [https://gurukasi.wordpress.com/oer-learning-digital-story-telling/ Wordpress site] . You can upload your text and image OER on your Wordpress blog (image 3). You need a premium account in Wordpress to upload audio and video. However, you can upload your audio and video files on the audio and video repositories discussed earlier and provide a hyper-link to those pages on WordPress, to create your complete OER.
We have uploaded the text document content and the concept map image on our [https://gurukasi.wordpress.com/oer-learning-digital-story-telling/ Wordpress site] (image 3). You can upload your text and image OER on your Wordpress blog. You need a premium account in Wordpress to upload audio and video. However, you can upload your audio and video files on the audio and video repositories discussed earlier and provide a hyper-link to those pages on WordPress, to create your complete OER.
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=== Providing metadata for your OER ===
{| class="wikitable"
|'''Activity time -''' Register on Wordpress.com and create your account. Upload your text document as a WordPress page. In this page, provide hyper links to your concept map image, audio and video resources already uploaded by you on the OER repositories, as per the earlier activities in 'publishing OER'. You can create additional pages as required by you.
You can treat WordPress as your 'e-journal', in which as a teacher, you can regularly record your experiences and insights. You can invite feedback from your colleagues as well, which can be recorded by them as comments on your blog.
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=== OER created as part of this toolkit on 'learning digital story telling' ===
=== OER created as part of this toolkit on 'learning digital story telling' ===
