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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.  This chapter will focus on accessing image repositories, tools for creating image OER, editing image OER, remixing image OER with other formats and publishing.   
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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.  Images can be used standalone, or in a sequence as an animation, or in combination with text to create picture stories for communication.  With increasing use of ICT, creating, 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 help the greater creation, re-purposing and publishing  of image and animation OERs.  This chapter will focus on accessing image repositories, tools for creating image and animation OER, editing image OER, remixing image OER with other formats and publishing.   
    
By the end of this chapter, you will be able to  
 
By the end of this chapter, you will be able to  
 
# access image OER from popular repositories  
 
# access image OER from popular repositories  
 
# create image OER using your camera (''on your feature mobile phone'')
 
# create image OER using your camera (''on your feature mobile phone'')
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# create image OER using a drawing tool (''Tux Paint'')
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# create image OER using a drawing tool (using ''Tux Paint'')
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# create a simple animation OER (''Tux Paint'')
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# create a simple animation OER (using ''Tux Paint'')
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# create image OER using a screen capture tool (''Screenshot'')
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# create image OER using a screen capture tool (using ''Screenshot'')
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# edit image OER using an image editor (''GIMP'').
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# edit image OER using an image editor (using ''GIMP'').
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# embed / insert images in a text document to create a picture story (''LibreOffice Writer)''
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# embed / insert images in a text document to create a picture story (using ''LibreOffice Writer)''
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# present image resources in a ‘slide presentation’ format (''LibreOffice Impress'').
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# present image resources in a ‘slide presentation’ format (using ''LibreOffice Impress'').
    
=== Accessing image OER repositories ===
 
=== Accessing image OER repositories ===
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==== Searching from popular Image OER repositories ====
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==== Searching popular image OER repositories ====
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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(image 1). 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|thumb|450x450px|Image 1 - Search and display DST on Wikimedia Commons|none]]
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Like [https://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] is a text OER repository, [[commons:Main_Page|Wikimedia commons]] is a repository of media (images, audio and video), managed by the same [[wikipedia:Wikimedia_Foundation|WikiMedia Foundation]].  You can search images related to your topic in Wikimedia Commons, by simply typing the topic name in the search bar(image 1). 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|thumb|450x450px|Image 1 - Search and display DST on Wikimedia Commons|none]]
    
==== Search the web for image OER ====
 
==== Search the web for image OER ====
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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 (image 2) and selecting the ‘Images’ link (image 3) .  As in the case of text, you can select images that are licensed for reuse by specifying the search settings.
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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 (image 2) and selecting the ‘Images’ link (image 3) .  As in the case of text, you can select images that are licensed for re-use by specifying this in the search settings.
 
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A simple and easy way to create an image OER is to take a photo of the object you want an image of, using your camera or a mobile phone. Of course this will apply only where the topic is such that you have objects you can take a photo of. Sometimes an image can also be a digitization of hand-drawn images or paintings. Digitized representations of student drawings or paintings can be a useful collection of image OER. These photographs can be edited for further re-purposing as OER. Usually images are stored in .jpeg or .png formats.  
 
A simple and easy way to create an image OER is to take a photo of the object you want an image of, using your camera or a mobile phone. Of course this will apply only where the topic is such that you have objects you can take a photo of. Sometimes an image can also be a digitization of hand-drawn images or paintings. Digitized representations of student drawings or paintings can be a useful collection of image OER. These photographs can be edited for further re-purposing as OER. Usually images are stored in .jpeg or .png formats.  
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Note – Taking a photo of a copyrighted material (such as a photo), is a violation of the copyright law, with exception given for ‘fair use’. For more information on what you can photograph and cannot, read the [http://wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2006/02/article_0010.html WIPO advisory]. Wherever possible, you could take permission of the copyright holder to use an photo of the material.
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Note – Taking a photo of a copyrighted material (such as another photo), is a violation of the copyright law, with exception given for ‘fair use’. For more information on what you can photograph and cannot, read the [http://wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2006/02/article_0010.html WIPO advisory]. Wherever possible, you could take permission of the copyright holder to use an photo of the material.
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|'''Activity time''' - Imaging what kind of photographs may enrich the OER you are creating. Identify a few of them and use your camera / mobile phone to take photographs. You can copy these from the camera / mobile phone to your computer in your image OER folder.
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==== Using a drawing software - [http://tuxpaint.org/ Tux Paint] ====
 
==== Using a drawing software - [http://tuxpaint.org/ Tux Paint] ====
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The files created by you, are stored in the home/.tuxpaint/saved folder, in the 'png' format. To open the .tuxpaint folder, you may need to select the 'view hidden' files in the /home folder on Ubuntu. The file name will begin with 'year+month+date' in YYYYDDMM format, followed by a serial number.
 
The files created by you, are stored in the home/.tuxpaint/saved folder, in the 'png' format. To open the .tuxpaint folder, you may need to select the 'view hidden' files in the /home folder on Ubuntu. The file name will begin with 'year+month+date' in YYYYDDMM format, followed by a serial number.
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You should also create a drawing on an issue connected to your topic. One possibility is you could use any image you found as a reference, and draw it using Tux Paint.<br>
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|'''Activity time''' - You should also create a drawing on an issue connected to your topic. Another possibility is you could use any image you found as a reference, and draw it using Tux Paint.
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==== Creating image resources using a screen capture tool [https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/screen-shot-record.html Screenshot] ====
 
==== Creating image resources using a screen capture tool [https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/screen-shot-record.html Screenshot] ====
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