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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''').   

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 (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 can make it easier for others to get OER that they want.   

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''') that can 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 these 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.   

You can publish your OER in popular OER repositories, some of which have been mentioned earlier in this toolkit. This chapter briefly these 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 that we have created in this toolkit on 'Learning Digital Story Telling', on these repositories.   

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

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

[[File:COL - Uploading a slide presentation on SlideShare.png|left|thumb|450x450px|Uploading a slide presentation on SlideShare]]

[[File:COL - Uploading a slide presentation on SlideShare.png|left|thumb|450x450px|Uploading a slide presentation on SlideShare]]

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. You should specify 'Public' in the 'Privacy' settings, to make the document available to all.   

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. You should specify '''Public''<nowiki/>' in the 'Privacy' settings, to make the document available to all.   

(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].

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==== Contributing to collaborative text OER ====

==== Contributing to collaborative text OER ====

You can also contribute your content 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.  A collaborative community has been the way this encyclopedia has grown to be the most referred-to encyclopedia. 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 seen by many others. You will need to follow the [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Ten_Simple_Rules_for_Editing_Wikipedia|editing guidelines]] of Wikipedia.

You can also contribute your content 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 follow the [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Ten_Simple_Rules_for_Editing_Wikipedia|editing guidelines]] of Wikipedia.

[https://www.oercommons.org/ OER commons] is another repository where you can join and create text OER, enriched with media; 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).

[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).

==== Publishing your image and audio visual OER ====

==== Publishing your image and audio visual OER ====

We saw in the earlier chapters different repositories for image, audio and video files.  [https://commons.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia commons] is one of the largest repositories of media OER of different kinds - image, audio and video files. See the image of the digital story that we have uploaded on Wikimedia commons. Other options for image repositories include include [https://pixabay.com/ pixabay] and [https://www.flickr.com/ Flickr].  

We saw in the earlier chapters different repositories for image, audio and video files.  [https://commons.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia commons] is one of the largest repositories of media OER of different kinds - image, audio and video files. See the image of the digital story that we have uploaded on Wikimedia commons. Other options for image repositories include include [https://pixabay.com/ pixabay] and [https://www.flickr.com/ Flickr].  

Audio OER can be uploaded on [https://soundcloud.com/creativecommonsmusicfree Soundcloud].  We have uploaded the [https://soundcloud.com/gurumurthy-kasinathan/interview-why-digital-story-telling-is-important-1-original audio file on Soundcloud]

Audio OER can be uploaded on [https://soundcloud.com/creativecommonsmusicfree Soundcloud].  We have uploaded our [https://soundcloud.com/gurumurthy-kasinathan/interview-why-digital-story-telling-is-important-1-original audio file on Soundcloud]

Video OER can be uploaded on [https://www.youtube.com Youtube]. You  should ensure to select the Creative Commons license when you upload your video OER, to ensure that it is available freely to others. We have uploaded the video file on Youtube, see a Youtube video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqM1sSgocZk here].

Video OER can be uploaded on [https://www.youtube.com Youtube]. You  should ensure to select the Creative Commons license when you upload your video OER, to ensure that it is available freely to others. We have uploaded our video files on Youtube, see one of these Youtube videos [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqM1sSgocZk here].

[[File:COL_-_Specifying_CC_license_for_video_uploaded_on_Youtube.png|none|thumb|450x450px|Specifying CC license for video uploaded on Youtube]]

[[File:COL_-_Specifying_CC_license_for_video_uploaded_on_Youtube.png|none|thumb|450x450px|Specifying CC license for video uploaded on Youtube]]

[[wikipedia:Vimeo|Vimeo]] is another popular site for uploading OER videos.

[[wikipedia:Vimeo|Vimeo]] is another popular site for uploading OER videos.