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|'''Activity time''' - You should create a concept map for your topic. Add nodes and child nodes. Insert hyper links to web pages and notes as you think will make your map richer and more useful. You should save the concept map in your personal digital library, you could save in a sub folder called 'concept map'. You should also save/ export the map in different formats in this folder.  

|'''Activity time''' - You should create a concept map for your topic. Add nodes and child nodes. Insert hyper links to web pages and notes as you think will make your map richer and more useful. You should save the concept map in your personal digital library, you could save in a sub folder called 'concept map'. You should also save/ export the map in different formats in this folder.  

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=== Creating text OER as a text document ===

=== Creating text OER as a text document ===

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Hit the ‘enter’ key to go to the next line with the next number.  For indenting and sub numbering, you can use the ‘Tab’ and 'shift Tab' keys. Hitting the tab key while at the beginning of a line, will move the cursor further and create a sub-number. Hitting Shift-Tab will move the cursor to the next higher level numbering. Using these keys, you can create any number of levels of numbering and sub-numbering.

Hit the ‘enter’ key to go to the next line with the next number.  For indenting and sub numbering, you can use the ‘Tab’ and 'shift Tab' keys. Hitting the tab key while at the beginning of a line, will move the cursor further and create a sub-number. Hitting Shift-Tab will move the cursor to the next higher level numbering. Using these keys, you can create any number of levels of numbering and sub-numbering.

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==== Creating a slide presentation (''LibreOffice Impress'') ====

=== Creating a slide presentation (''LibreOffice Impress'') ===

A slide presentation is a document that consists of slides, each slide can be considered as a ‘page’ which will contain a coherent set of information, usually presented as bullet points. A slide presentation is a useful method of sharing information, or in training or teaching. While a text document is useful as a descriptive resource, a presentation can be more useful as a summarized view.  A presentation can be created as a summary of a text OER.  Like in a text document, you can embed images, audio links, video links in the presentation. You can subsequently do a ‘slide show’ of this presentation, when you are finished creation.   

A slide presentation is a document that consists of slides, each slide can be considered as a ‘page’ which will contain a coherent set of information, usually presented as bullet points. A slide presentation is a useful method of sharing information, or in training or teaching. While a text document is useful as a descriptive resource, a presentation can be more useful as a summarized view.  A presentation can be created as a summary of a text OER.  Like in a text document, you can embed images, audio links, video links in the presentation. You can subsequently do a ‘slide show’ of this presentation, when you are finished creation.   

# Inserting a text box

# Inserting a text box

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==== Managing slides ====

==== Managing slides ====

[[File:COL_-_Creating_a_slide_presentation.png|thumb|450x450px|Image 35 - Creating a slide presentation, using LibreOffice Impress|left]]

[[File:COL_-_Creating_a_slide_presentation.png|thumb|450x450px|Image 35 - Creating a slide presentation, using LibreOffice Impress|left]]

[[File:COL_-_Entering_text_on_a_slide.png|thumb|450x450px|Image 36 - DST slide presentation, entering and formating text using LibreOffice Impress|left]]

[[File:COL_-_Entering_text_on_a_slide.png|thumb|450x450px|Image 36 - DST slide presentation, entering and formating text using LibreOffice Impress|left]]

When you select <u>File → Open,</u> you get to chose if you will create a text file or a presentation file. Hence, these four functions mentioned above for LibreOffice Impress are identical to perform as was explained in the LibreOffice Writer section (image 36).

When you select <u>File → Open,</u> you get to chose if you will create a text file or a presentation file. Hence, these four functions mentioned above for LibreOffice Impress are identical to perform as was explained in the LibreOffice Writer section (image 36).

In our slide presentation, we have entered text (by simply typing the text) and formatted text (changed font <u>colour – Format → Character → Font Effects → Font colour</u>) on the first slide.

In our slide presentation, we have entered text (by simply typing the text) and formatted text (changed font <u>colour – Format → Character → Font Effects → Font colour</u>) on the first slide.

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In the second slide, we copy pasted the objectives from our text file. We created a numbered list (<u>Selecting the text and then → Format → Bullets and Numbering → Numbering Type</u>) (image 37).

In the second slide, we copy pasted the objectives from our text file. We created a numbered list (<u>Selecting the text and then → Format → Bullets and Numbering → Numbering Type</u>) (images 37 and 38).

[[File:COL_-_Inserting_numbered_list_in_a_slide.png|thumb|450x450px|Image 37 - DST slide presentation, creating a numbered list and inserting a text box using LibreOffice Impress|left]]

[[File:COL_-_Inserting_numbered_list_in_a_slide.png|thumb|450x450px|Image 37 - DST slide presentation, creating a numbered list and inserting a text box using LibreOffice Impress|left]]

[[File:COL_-_Slide_with_numbered_list.png|thumb|450x450px|Image 38 - DST slide presentation with numbered list|right]]

[[File:COL_-_Slide_with_numbered_list.png|thumb|450x450px|Image 38 - DST slide presentation with numbered list|right]]

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We have also inserted a text box (<u>Insert → Shape → Basic → Rectangle</u>) at the bottom of the slide and typed the text ‘Can you suggest more possible objectives of DST?’. The background colour in this box is blue, to change the colour, select <u>Format → Style → Edit Style → Area</u>. Select the colour you want (white is a good background). Similarly, if you do not want a border for the text box, you can remove it. Select <u>Format → Style → Edit Style → Line → Style → None</u>.

We have also inserted a text box (<u>Insert → Shape → Basic → Rectangle</u>) at the bottom of the slide and typed the text ‘Can you suggest more possible objectives of DST?’. The background colour in this box is blue, to change the colour, select <u>Format → Style → Edit Style → Area</u>. Select the colour you want (white is a good background). Similarly, if you do not want a border for the text box, you can remove it. Select <u>Format → Style → Edit Style → Line → Style → None</u>.

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|'''Activity time''' - You should create a slide presentation for your topic. Add slides for different ideas related to the topic. Insert text boxes and images in the presentation document. Insert hyper links to web resources, as you think will make your slide presentation richer and more useful. Save the slide presentation in your personal digital library, you could save in a sub folder called 'slide presentation'

|'''Activity time''' - You should create a slide presentation for your topic. Add slides for different ideas related to the topic. Insert text boxes in the presentation document. Insert hyper links to web resources, as you think will make your slide presentation richer and more useful. Save the slide presentation in your personal digital library, you could save in a sub folder called 'slide presentation'. You should open the file again and see the slides in the 'slide show' mode (Slide Show -> Start from the first slide).

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# Freemind is an alternative to Freeplane for making concept maps. Its features and interface is similar to Freeplane.

# Freemind is an alternative to Freeplane for making concept maps. Its features and interface is similar to Freeplane.

# An alternative to LibreOffice for creating text resources and slide presentations is OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice.org also has a similar Writer and Impress applications.

# An alternative to LibreOffice for creating text resources and slide presentations is OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice.org also has a similar Writer and Impress applications.

# gedit is a plain text editor. If you are copying content from a website into your LibreOffice Writer document and the formatting will get lost. You could instead copy from the website and paste into a gedit file and then copy from the gedit file to your LibreOffice Writer document, this will remove all formatting and help you organize the text more easily.  

# Gedit is a plain text editor. If you are copying content from a website into your LibreOffice Writer document, sometimes the formating of the content on the web page will be copied to the Writer document but may be garbled. If you do not want the formatting but only the content, you could instead copy from the website and paste into a gedit file and then copy from the gedit file to your LibreOffice Writer document, this will remove all formatting and help you organize the text more easily.  

# LibreOffice Writer is also available on Microsoft Windows, on http://libreoffice.org/download/download. LibreOffice Writer is part of the LibreOffice suite on Windows. [[wikipedia:LibreOffice_Writer|Wikipedia]] has more information about LibreOffice Writer. The functions and menu options of LibreOffice Writer on Windows are similar to those on Ubuntu platform. Learning LibreOffice Writer on Windows is similar to learning it on Ubuntu

# LibreOffice Writer is also available on Microsoft Windows, on http://libreoffice.org/download/download. LibreOffice Writer is part of the LibreOffice suite on Windows. [[wikipedia:LibreOffice_Writer|Wikipedia]] has more information about LibreOffice Writer. The functions and menu options of LibreOffice Writer on Windows are similar to those on Ubuntu platform. Learning LibreOffice Writer on Windows is similar to learning it on Ubuntu.

# LibreOffice Impress is also available on Microsoft Windows, on http://libreoffice.org/download/download. LibreOffice Impress is part of the LibreOffice suite on Windows.  The functions and menu options of LibreOffice Impress  on Windows are similar to those on Ubuntu platform. Learning LibreOffice Impress  on Windows is similar to learning it on Ubuntu

# LibreOffice Impress is also available on Microsoft Windows, on http://libreoffice.org/download/download. LibreOffice Impress is part of the LibreOffice suite on Windows.  The functions and menu options of LibreOffice Impress  on Windows are similar to those on Ubuntu platform. Learning LibreOffice Impress  on Windows is similar to learning it on Ubuntu

# Short videos on LibreOffice Impress are available on http://spoken-tutorial.org/tutorial-search/?search_foss=LibreOffice+Suite+Impress&search_language=English

# Short videos on LibreOffice Impress are available on http://spoken-tutorial.org/tutorial-search/?search_foss=LibreOffice+Suite+Impress&search_language=English

See [[Teachers' toolkit for creating and re-purposing OER using FOSS/Annexure|Annexure]] for more information on alternative applications and platforms.

See [[Teachers' toolkit for creating and re-purposing OER using FOSS/Annexure|Annexure]] for more information on alternative applications and platforms.

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