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One of the most important advantages of OER is the possibility of creating resources in multiple formats - images being one of them.  Either used standalone, or in a sequence as an animation or in combination with text to create powerful picture stories for communication.  With increasing use of ICT in the form of multiple devices, creating and editing and remixing image resources is becoming more and more prevalent.  Availability of free and open source tools for creation and re-purposing of image resources can be important for greater dissemination of image and animation OERs. 

In this chapter, you will learn how to create and re-purpose image OER. You will learn

In this chapter, you will learn

# about popular repositories for accessing image OER

# about popular repositories for accessing image OER

# how to create image OER using your camera (''on your feature mobile phone'')

# how to create image OER using your camera (''on your feature mobile phone'')

# how to create image OER using a drawing tool (''Tux Paint'')

# how to create image OER using a drawing tool (''Tux Paint'')

# How to create a simple animation OER (''Tux Paint'')

# how to create a simple animation OER (''Tux Paint'')

# how to create image OER using a screen capture tool (''Screenshot'')

# how to create image OER using a screen capture tool (''Screenshot'')

# how to edit image OER using an image editor (''GIMP'').

# how to edit image OER using an image editor (''GIMP'').

=== Accessing image OER repositories ===

=== Accessing image OER repositories ===

* Like [https://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] is a popular text OER repository, [[commons:Main_Page|Wikimedia commons]] is a media(images, audio and video) OER repository. You can search for your topic in Wikimedia Commons, by simply typing the topic name in the search bar. We will do this for ‘Digital Story Telling’ (DST) which is the OER being created as an exemplar in this toolkit. [https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ Flickr] is also another popular source of OER images

Like [https://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] is a popular text OER repository, [[commons:Main_Page|Wikimedia commons]] is a repository of media (images, audio and video). You can search for your topic in Wikimedia Commons, by simply typing the topic name in the search bar. We will do this for ‘Digital Story Telling’ (DST) which is the OER being created as an exemplar in this toolkit. [https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ Flickr] is also another popular source of OER images[[File:COL_-_Wikimedia_Commons_Search_Image_-_DST_.png|left|thumb|450x450px|Search and display DST on Wikimedia Commons]]

 

[[File:COL_-_Wikimedia_Commons_Search_Image_-_DST_.png|left|thumb|450x450px|Search and display DST on Wikimedia Commons]]

* You can use a search engine such as [https://google.com Google search engine] or [https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo] search engine, using a FOSS web browser such as [https://www.mozilla.org/ Mozilla Firefox] to search for image OER.

* You can use a search engine such as [https://google.com Google search engine] or [https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo] search engine, using a FOSS web browser such as [https://www.mozilla.org/ Mozilla Firefox] to search for image OER.

You can search for images relating  DST to simply typing in Digital Story Telling in the search bar of the search engine and selecting the ‘Images’ link.

You can search for images relating  DST to simply typing in Digital Story Telling in the search bar of the search engine and selecting the ‘Images’ link.