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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.   

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 an important ''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 - you can do this in many ways - such as 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 an important ''virtuous cycle'' ('''access->re-purpose->publish->access''').   

You can publish your OER, either in popular repositories, depending on their format or purpose, or in a single place on the web.   

You can publish your OER, either in popular repositories, depending on their format or purpose. You can also publish all your OER in a single place on the web.   

===Objectives===

===Objectives===

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to   

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to   

# 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  

# Document date (may be creation date and or publishing date)

# Document date (may be creation date and or publishing date)

# Key words for the OER

# Key words for the OER

It is a useful convention to provide metadata for any OER you create or re-purpose.   

It is a useful convention to provide metadata for any OER you create or re-purpose. You should do this before you publish your OER. Of course you can do this at the time of creation or re-purposing itself.   

==== Adding meta data to your text file ====

==== Adding meta data to your text file ====

    

    

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{| class="wikitable"

|'''Activity time -''' You should provide metadata including your name, file name, license information, document creation date and keywords for the OER on all your OER documents, created or re-purposed by you.   

|'''Activity time -''' You should provide metadata including your name, file name, license information, document creation date and keywords for the OER on all your OER documents, created or re-purposed by you. You should make this a habit.   

|}{{clear}}

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=== Contributing your creation to existing repositories ===

=== Contributing your creation to existing repositories ===

You can publish your OER in popular repositories, some of which have been mentioned earlier in this toolkit. This chapter briefly these discusses repositories where you could publish the OER you create or re-purpose. (Note that some repositories will only allow you to upload OER, such as Wikipedia, while others accept both OER and non OER content, such as Youtube. In either case, you should specify your resource as an OER). 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.   

You can publish your OER in popular repositories, some of which have been mentioned earlier in this toolkit. This chapter briefly these discusses repositories where you could publish the OER you create or re-purpose. (Note that some repositories will only allow you to upload OER, such as Wikipedia, while others accept both OER and non OER content, such as Youtube. In any case, you should specify your resource as an OER). This chapter 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 ====

There are OER repositories for uploading your text resources. [https://wikieducator.org/Main_Page WikiEducator] is an OER repository specially for sharing educational resources. [https://www.academia.edu/ Academia.edu] is a repository for sharing articles and academic papers.  

There are OER repositories for uploading your text resources. [https://wikieducator.org/Main_Page WikiEducator] is an OER repository specially for sharing educational resources. [https://www.academia.edu/ Academia.edu] is a repository for sharing articles and academic papers. [http://Slideshare.net SlideShare] is a popular web site where you can upload your presentation slides and text documents in [https://linkedin.com/help/slideshare/answer/53682 different formats].  

 

[http://Slideshare.net SlideShare] is a popular web site where you can upload your presentation slides and text documents in [https://linkedin.com/help/slideshare/answer/53682 different formats].

[[File:COL - Uploading a slide presentation on SlideShare.png|left|thumb|450x450px|Image 5 - Uploading a slide presentation on SlideShare]]

[[File:COL - Uploading a slide presentation on SlideShare.png|left|thumb|450x450px|Image 5 - Uploading a slide presentation on SlideShare]]

We have uploaded our slide presentation on our [https://slideshare.net/GurumurthyKasinathan/learning-digital-story-telling SlideShare] account.  <nowiki/>(image 5). 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 [[Teachers' toolkit for creating and re-purposing OER using FOSS|choose]] from a variety of [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Creative Commons licenses].    {{clear}}

We have uploaded our slide presentation on our [https://slideshare.net/GurumurthyKasinathan/learning-digital-story-telling SlideShare] account.  <nowiki/>(image 5). It is important to note here that even if you are contributing your resource to a repository that is not OER, you should specify your resources as OER, for anyone to access.  You should do this by specifying 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 [[Teachers' toolkit for creating and re-purposing OER using FOSS/A toolkit for creating OER and re-purposing using FOSS tools|choose]] from a variety of [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Creative Commons licenses].    {{clear}}

{| class="wikitable"

{| class="wikitable"

|'''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.  

|'''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 also provide meta data including name of file, key words and category.  

You can use the SlideShare web space to regularly upload your text documents and slide presentation OER on different topics.

You can use the SlideShare web space to regularly upload your text documents and slide presentation OER on different topics.

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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.

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.

{| class="wikitable"

{| class="wikitable"

|'''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!!  

|'''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!!

You need not add meta data to your Wikipedia edit, since Wikipedia itself stores your name/login, data and time of modification when your edit is saved. Since all content in Wikipedia is licensed as OER, you do not need to mention it for your edit!  

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|}

[https://oercommons.org OER commons] is another repository for sharing your image, audio and video OER.

[https://oercommons.org OER commons] is another repository for sharing your image, audio and video OER.

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==== List of publishing spaces by format of OER ====

==== List of publishing spaces by format of OER ====

[[File:COL - Publishing OER on your blog (Wordpress).png|left|thumb|450x450px|Image 7 - Publishing OER on your blog (Wordpress)]]

[[File:COL - Publishing OER on your blog (Wordpress).png|left|thumb|450x450px|Image 7 - 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] (image 7). 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.  

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 7). 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 (SoundCloud and Youtube) and provide a hyper-link to those pages on WordPress, to create your complete OER.  

[[Category:Teachers' toolkit for creating and re-purposing OER using FOSS]]

[[Category:Teachers' toolkit for creating and re-purposing OER using FOSS]]

{| class="wikitable"

{| 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.  

|'''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, to complete the OER on your topic.

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.  

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.  

=== OER created as part of this toolkit on 'learning digital story telling' ===

=== OER created as part of this toolkit on 'learning digital story telling' ===

As a part of the toolkit, we worked on creating an OER for the topic 'Learning Digital Story Telling', to demonstrate to you how we could use FOSS applications to create and re-purpose OER. The OER is available on the different pages for text, image and animation, audio and video OER, it is shown below for reference at a single location:

As a part of the toolkit, we worked on creating an OER for the topic 'Learning Digital Story Telling', to demonstrate to you how we could use FOSS applications to create and re-purpose OER. The OER is available on the different pages for text, image and animation, audio and video OER, it is shown below for easy reference:

# [https://teacher-network.in/OER/images/7/7d/Digital_Story_Telling_personal_digital_library_-_Image.mm Freeplane - Concept Map]

# [https://teacher-network.in/OER/images/7/7d/Digital_Story_Telling_personal_digital_library_-_Image.mm Freeplane - Concept Map]

# [https://teacher-network.in/OER/images/5/55/Learning_Digital_Story_Telling_%28after_audio_video_OER%29.odt LibreOffice Writer - Text document]

# [https://teacher-network.in/OER/images/5/55/Learning_Digital_Story_Telling_%28after_audio_video_OER%29.odt LibreOffice Writer - Text document]

We have copied the text from the LibreOffice text document onto the [https://wordpress.com/page/gurukasi.wordpress.com/27 WordPress page] and inserted the concept map. The web address of an audio and a video OER has been linked on this [https://wordpress.com/page/gurukasi.wordpress.com/27 page]. The aim is to demonstrate how you can bring together text, image, audio and video resources relating to one topic on one  page on your WordPress site. This will allow all your OER on a topic to be strung together providing greater coherence and quality. You can create any number of such pages on different topics that you are creating and re-purposing OER on.  

We have copied the text from the LibreOffice text document onto the [https://wordpress.com/page/gurukasi.wordpress.com/27 WordPress page] and inserted the concept map. The web address of an audio and a video OER has been linked on this [https://wordpress.com/page/gurukasi.wordpress.com/27 page]. The aim is to demonstrate how you can bring together text, image, audio and video resources relating to one topic on one  page on your WordPress site. This will allow all your OER on a topic to be strung together providing greater coherence and quality. You can create any number of such pages on different topics that you are creating and re-purposing OER on.  

''Our purpose in this exercise has been only to demonstrate to you, how to go about creating, re-purposing and publishing OER. The OER created is not in its final or mature form, for that much more work is required add content to complete the text document and the slide presentation. Work is also required to bring together and refine the text, image, audio and video resources together to make a final OER set on 'learning digital story telling'.'' Preparing a quality OER is time and effort intensive exercise, you will also need to work quite a bit to revise, refine and finalise your OER. This is likely to be a iterative effort. The applications we have learnt will enable you to go back to the specific OER (file) you are working on, and continue editing the same for further revising and maturing.

''Our purpose in this exercise has been only to demonstrate to you, how to go about creating, re-purposing and publishing OER. The OER created is not suggested to be in its final or mature form, for that much more work is required add content to complete the text document and the slide presentation. Work is also required to bring together and refine the text, image, audio and video resources together to make a final OER set on 'learning digital story telling'.''  

 

Preparing a quality OER is time and effort intensive exercise, you will also need to work quite a bit to revise, refine and finalise your OER. This is likely to be a iterative effort. The applications we have learnt will enable you to go back to the specific OER (file) you are working on, and continue editing the same for further revising and maturing.

=== Toolkit created as OER, using MediaWiki ===

=== Toolkit created as OER, using MediaWiki ===

This toolkit  is created as an OER using MediaWiki, including an extension called [https://wikibooks.org Wikibooks]. This toolkit has been created in a collaborative manner by members of the IT for Change, the author of this toolkit. The toolkit has OER in different formats (text, image, animation, audio and video) and internal and external hype-links as well.

This toolkit  is created as an OER using MediaWiki, including an extension called [https://wikibooks.org Wikibooks]. This toolkit has been created in a collaborative manner by members of the IT for Change, the author of this toolkit. The toolkit has OER in different formats (text, image, animation, audio and video) and internal and external hype-links as well. Hence this toolkit is itself an example of creating OER using FOSS

While you can use WordPress to create your own web site, where you can host all the OER you create, MediaWiki is a candidate platform to host OER, which is sought to be collaboratively produced. MediaWiki allows multiple users to edit the same content, it allows embedding of image, animation, audio and video resources. It stores the history of edits, so that at any time, you can roll back to a previous version. It has several reports to give you information about the data and [[wikipedia:Metadata|metadata]] on the OER. It is also possible to define processes of creation-review-curation-publishing on MediaWiki. The power of MediaWiki is what enables the world's most popular OER repository Wikipedia, to support collaboration amongst thousands of creators-editors-reviewers across the world, to create OER in more than a hundred languages.  

While you can use WordPress to create your own web site, where you can host all the OER you create, MediaWiki is a candidate platform to host OER, which is sought to be collaboratively produced. MediaWiki allows multiple users to edit the same content, it allows embedding of image, animation, audio and video resources. It stores the history of edits, so that at any time, you can roll back to a previous version. It has several reports to give you information about the data and [[wikipedia:Metadata|metadata]] on the OER. It is also possible to define processes of creation-review-curation-publishing on MediaWiki. The power of MediaWiki is what enables the world's most popular OER repository Wikipedia, to support collaboration amongst thousands of creators-editors-reviewers across the world, to create OER in more than a hundred languages.