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====Searching the web for OER====

====Searching the web for OER====

In addition to accessing OER on Wikipedia, you could also use a search engine such as Google search engine or [https://duckduckgo.com DuckDuckGo] search engine to access information. While Google search engine (and many other popular search engines) track your searches and store the trail, [https://duckduckgo.com DuckDuckGo] does not. This also means that if you do not want to receive targeted advertising, based on your searches, you should use [https://duckduckgo.com DuckDuckGo]. Another option is to add DuckDuckGo search engine to your Firefox browser, so that you can use it whenever you want to, and use Google or other search engines which are configured on your Firefox toolbar.

In addition to accessing OER on Wikipedia, you could also use a search engine such as [http://google.com Google search engine] or [https://duckduckgo.com DuckDuckGo] search engine to access information. While Google search engine (and many other popular search engines) track your searches and store the trail, [https://duckduckgo.com DuckDuckGo] does not. This also means that if you do not want to receive targeted advertising, based on your searches, you should use [https://duckduckgo.com DuckDuckGo]. An option is to add DuckDuckGo search engine to your Firefox browser, so that you can use it whenever you want to, and use Google or other search engines which are configured on your Firefox toolbar.

You could look for information by simply typing in Digital Story Telling in the search bar of the search engine; shown below are examples of how a search for "Digital Story Telling" (image 4 and 5) would look like.

You could look for information by simply typing in Digital Story Telling in the search bar of the search engine; shown below are examples of how a search for "Digital Story Telling" (image 4 and image 5 demonstrating search on Google and DuckDuckGo search engines respectively) would look like.

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When you visit any site returned by the search results,  you need to look for copyright information to ascertain that the resource is OER and you can re-use it.  

When you visit any site returned by the search results,  you need to look for copyright information to ascertain that the resource is OER and you can re-use it.  

If there is no information on the web page accessed through the search, you should visit the home page or the 'About Us' page of the web site to find out if there is any information or link which gives details of the copyright for the content on that site.  

If there is no information on the web page accessed through the search, you should visit the home page or the 'About Us' page of the web site to find out if there is any information or link which gives information about the copyright for the content on that site.  

In many website, no copyright information is given. In such a case, since the default copyright is 'All rights reserved', you should not download any materials from that site or web page. In some cases, the website / web page may clearly specify  copyright as  'All rights reserved', here also you should not download any materials.   

In many website, no copyright information is given. In such a case, since the default copyright is 'All rights reserved', you should not download any materials from that site or web page. In some cases, the website / web page may clearly specify  copyright as  'All rights reserved', here also you should not download any materials.   

Search engines allow for search results to be filtered and displayed by license.  You can do this by specifying OER as a criteria while setting your search preferences.  In Google search you need to select <u>Settings → Advanced Search.</u> (image 6) In Advanced Search, you can select Usage Rights as ‘free to use, share or modify, even commercially’ to get OER that you can re-use with or without modification.{{clear}}

Some search engines allow for search results to be filtered and displayed by license.  You can do this by specifying OER as a criteria while setting your search preferences.  In Google search you need to select <u>Settings → Advanced Search.</u> (image 6) In Advanced Search, you can select Usage Rights as ‘free to use, share or modify, even commercially’ to get OER that you can re-use with or without modification.{{clear}}

====Popular Text OER repositories====

====Popular Text OER repositories====

#[https://khanacademy.org/ Khan Academy]

#[https://khanacademy.org/ Khan Academy]

#[http://open.edu/openlearn/ OpenLearn]

#[http://open.edu/openlearn/ OpenLearn]

You should refer to these, while creating or re-purposing your OER. These repositories have OER in different formats, not only in text format. You should refer to them when you access image, audio and video OER repositories in subsequent chapters.

You should refer to these, while creating or re-purposing your OER. These repositories may have OER in different formats, not only in text format. You should refer to them when you access image, audio and video OER repositories in subsequent chapters.

====Pages or articles listing OER repositories====

====Pages or articles listing OER repositories====

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|'''Activity time''' - You should search for OER for the topic you have selected. You could download documents, web pages that you think you will use for creating and re-purposing OER on your topic, on relevant folders of your personal digital library. These sub-folders could be created by OER format (text, image, audio, video) or by concept- sub concept or any other taxonomy that you find meaningful.

|'''Activity time''' - You should search for OER for the topic you have selected. You could download documents, web pages that you think you will use for creating and re-purposing OER on your topic, on relevant folders of your personal digital library. As mentioned earlier, these sub-folders could be created by OER format (text, image, audio, video) or by concept- sub concept or any other taxonomy that you find meaningful.

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=== Creating a text OER - a concept map ===

=== Creating a text OER - a concept map ===

Concept maps are an effective way of creating a textual resource that can be organized graphically, in the form of a map or tree of ideas; it provides a pictorial overview of the concepts, related concepts / sub-concepts for a topic.  A concept map helps you to create a textual OER with possibilities for linking to additional resources, adding annotations as well as graphically organizing ideas through links. A concept map can also be used to plan and design the OER by identifying areas of resource requirements as well as linking to additional resources, serving as a blue print for OER development.  Concepts acquire power and meaning when they are connected to other concepts. Hence, organizing the concepts relevant to your topic is an important first step of OER creation.   

[[wikipedia:Concept_map|Concept maps]] can be an effective way of creating a textual resource that can be organized graphically, in the form of a map or tree of ideas; it provides a pictorial overview of the concepts, related concepts / sub-concepts for a topic.  A concept map helps you to create a text OER with possibilities for linking to additional resources, adding annotations, as well as graphically organizing ideas through links.    

Freeplane is a FOSS application that can be used to create concept maps (image 8); this toolkit will introduce you to use of Free plane and various functionalities.   

 

[[File:Freeplane logo.png|frameless|20x20px]][[wikipedia:Freeplane|Freeplane]] is a FOSS application that can be used to create concept maps (image 8); this toolkit will introduce you to use of [[wikipedia:Freeplane|Freeplane]] and its various functionalities.   

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In the custom distribution of the Ubuntu operating system, accompanying this toolkit, all FOSS applications have been bundled.  To open Freeplane, select <u>Applications → Office →</u> [[File:Freeplane logo.png|frameless|20x20px]]<u>[https://www.freeplane.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Freeplane]</u> <u>(image 7)</u>.

In the custom distribution of the Ubuntu operating system, accompanying this toolkit, all FOSS applications have been bundled.  To open Freeplane, select <u>Applications → Office →</u> <u>[https://www.freeplane.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Freeplane]</u> <u>(image 7)</u>.

==== Inserting nodes ====

==== Inserting nodes ====

To learn working with Freeplane, we will start creating a concept map for Digital Story Telling; you will see above that Freeplane has opened a window with a box with text "New mindmap".  This node, also called the "root node" will contain the core idea/ theme of the resource.  Additional ideas are added by adding more nodes, called child nodes.  The concept map gets built by adding further child nodes, for topics and sub-topics.  Use the ‘insert’ key to create a ‘child node’ this is a sub-concept of your current concept. Use the ‘enter’ key to create a ‘sibling’ this is a parallel concept to your current concept. Thus you can create a concept map (image 9) with knowing just two functions – add child node (insert) and add sibling node (enter).

To learn working with Freeplane, we will start by creating a concept map for Digital Story Telling; you will see, when you opened Freeplane that the application has opened a window with a box with text "New mindmap".  This node, also called the "root node" will contain the core idea/ theme of the resource.  Additional ideas are added by adding more nodes, called child nodes.  The concept map gets built by adding further child nodes, for topics and sub-topics.  Use the ‘insert’ key to create a ‘child node’ this is a sub-concept of your current concept. Use the ‘enter’ key to create a ‘sibling’ this is a parallel concept to your current concept. Thus you can create a concept map (image 9) with knowing just two functions – add child node (insert) and add sibling node (enter).

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|[[File:Conceptmap2.png|left|thumb|400x450px|Image 9 - Creating the node tree for a concept map]]

|[[File:Conceptmap2.png|left|thumb|400x450px|Image 9 - Creating the node tree for a concept map]]

|[[File:COL_-_Concept_Map_on_DST.png|thumb|400x450px|Image 10 - Concept map on digital story telling, after all nodes are created]]  

|[[File:COL_-_Concept_Map_on_DST.png|thumb|400x450px|Image 10 - Concept map on digital story telling, after all nodes are created]]  

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As a part of this toolkit, we have developed a concept map on digital story telling (image 10).  Concept maps can be stored on your folders; they are saved with an extension ".mm". We have created a concept map called Learning Digital Story Telling.mm and saved it on our folder for text resources as part of the personal digital library for digital story telling.  The extension .mm stands for mindmap. Our map has nodes for the ‘why’, ‘what’ and ‘how’ of DST, with sub-nodes.  

We have developed a concept map on digital story telling (image 10).  Concept maps can be stored on your folders; they are saved with an extension ".mm", which stands for [[wikipedia:Mind_map|mindmap]]. We have created a concept map called Learning Digital Story Telling.mm and saved it on our folder for text resources as part of the personal digital library for digital story telling. Our map has nodes for the ‘why’, ‘what’ and ‘how’ of DST, with sub-nodes. (For all practical purposes for our learning, we can treat [[wikipedia:Mind_map|mindmap]] and [[wikipedia:Concept_map|concept map]] as being synonymous)

 

Likewise, please create a concept map and save it with the same name in your folder you have created with your topic name. Note that simply saving the file will save it with the name you have given in the root node. Create the sub-nodes for each node as per your imagination / thinking about the topic.

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==== Inserting hyper links ====

==== Inserting hyper links ====

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In our  Learning Digital Story Telling.mm concept map, we have inserted a hyper-link for the main node ‘Learning Digital Story Telling’ (image 12). Move your cursor to this node and select <u>Edit → Link → Add or Modify hyperlink (type)</u>. You can also use the keyboard shortcut CTRL-K. Freeplane will open an input bar (image 11). We will type in our webpage address <nowiki>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_storytelling</nowiki> into this input bar

In our  [[:File:Learning Digital Story Telling.mm|Learning Digital Story Telling.mm]] concept map, we have inserted a hyper-link for the main node ‘Learning Digital Story Telling’ (image 12). Move your cursor to this node and select <u>Edit → Link → Add or Modify hyperlink (type)</u>. You can also use the keyboard short cut CTRL-K. Freeplane will open an input bar (image 11). We will type in our web page address <nowiki>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_storytelling</nowiki> into this input bar

You should identify a useful web resource for any one node. You should similarly insert this hyper link for that node following the same steps. Note that Freeplane provides a pink arrow in the node, to signify that the node has a hyper link. Clicking on this pink arrow will open the web page that is linked, when there is an internet connection. In this manner, your concept map OER can provide links for each node, to access information on the world wide web, enriching the OER.

In this manner, your concept map OER can provide links for different nodes, to access information on the world wide web, enriching the concept map text OER.

==== Inserting a note ====

==== Inserting a note ====

In our  Learning Digital Story Telling.mm concept map, you will also see a yellow label beside the arrow and if you place your mouse over the yellow label, you will see a note description.  To add a note, you can click on the node, go to <u>View--->Notes--->Display note panel</u>; this will open a window in which you can type your notes (image 13). You can change the position and size of this note window.   

In our  [[:File:Learning Digital Story Telling.mm|Learning Digital Story Telling.mm]] concept map, you will also see a yellow label beside the arrow and if you place your mouse over the yellow label, you will see a note description.  To add a note, you can click on the node, go to <u>View--->Notes--->Display note panel</u>; this will open a window in which you can type your notes (image 13). You can change the position and size of this note window.   

[[File:Conceptmap3.png|none|thumb|450x450px|Image 13 - Notes can be added to nodes]]   

[[File:Conceptmap3.png|none|thumb|450x450px|Image 13 - Notes can be added to nodes]]   

You should practice inserting a note for any one of your nodes in your concept map (image 14), following these steps. In this manner, your concept map OER can provide notes for each node, to provide richer and more detailed information (image 15) for that node. (Advanced tip – If you export your concept map as a ‘odt’ or ‘doc’ text file, your note will be added to the section created for the node).

|'''Activity time -''' You should practice inserting a note for any one of your nodes in your concept map (image 14), following these steps. In this manner, your concept map OER can provide notes for each node, to provide richer and more detailed information (image 15) for that node. (Advanced tip – If you export your concept map as a ‘odt’ or ‘doc’ text file, your note will be added to the section created for the node. This way you can actually write a book using Freeplane).

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The aim here is to get you started with concept map OER creation using Freeplane. For advanced functions, you should refer to the User Manual for the application. The Freeplane tutorial is available within Freeplane itself, which you can access anytime by pressing the F1 function key.

Our aim here is to get you started with concept map OER creation using Freeplane. For advanced functions, you should refer to the User Manual for the application. The Freeplane tutorial is available within Freeplane itself, which you can access any time by pressing the F1 function key. ''The tutorial itself is a concept map, and you should browse this concept map, not only to get help that you may require, but also as a lesson on how a concept map can communicate so much information in such a simple manner!!''

 

==== Saving your concept map ====

==== Saving your concept map ====

By default your concept map is saved by Freeplane as a '.mm' format file (image 16). However, the concept map can be saved in many other formats. You can export the map to a text document file (in .odt or .doc formats). You can also export the map as an image (in .png or .jpeg formats) or as a web page (in .html format)(image 17).  We will discuss how you can use this image or html pages in the subsequent chapters. The images below show you how to save and export concept maps in Freeplane.

By default your concept map is saved by Freeplane as a '.mm' format file (image 16). However, the concept map can be saved in many other formats. You can export the map to a text document file (in .odt or .doc formats). You can also export the map as an image (in .png or .jpeg formats) or as a web page (in .html format)(image 17).  We will discuss how you can use this image in the next chapter. The images below show you how to save and export concept maps in Freeplane. While saving the file, Freeplane will display the file browser, to allow you to select the folder in which you can save your file. By default, the file is saved in your home folder.

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|[[File:COL_Freeplane_export.png|thumb|400x450px|Image 17 - Saving / exporting a Freeplane concept map in multiple formats]]

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==== Freeplane on other platforms ====

==== Freeplane on other platforms ====

Freeplane is also available on Microsoft Windows, on <nowiki>https://freeplane.en.softonic.com/download</nowiki>. The functions and menu options of Freeplane on Windows are similar to those on Ubuntu platform. Learning Freeplane on Windows is similar to learning it on Ubuntu.

Freeplane is also available on Microsoft Windows, on <nowiki>https://freeplane.en.softonic.com/download</nowiki>. The functions and menu options of Freeplane on Windows are similar to those on Ubuntu platform. Learning Freeplane on Windows is similar to learning it on Ubuntu. In Android Mobiles we can view concept maps through Freeplane reader.

In Android Mobiles we can view concept maps through Freeplane reader.

 

<nowiki>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeplane</nowiki> has more information about Freeplane and <nowiki>https://freeplane.org</nowiki> is the official website of the application.  

This information is also provided in an Annexure to this toolkit. For subsequent FOSS applications, please refer to the Annexure for this information.

<nowiki>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeplane</nowiki> has more information about Freeplane and <nowiki>https://freeplane.org</nowiki> is the official website of the application. This information is also provided in an Annexure to this toolkit, for all the FOSS applications discussed in this toolkit. For subsequent FOSS applications, please refer to the Annexure for this information.  

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