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Teachers' toolkit for creating and re-purposing OER using FOSS/Text OER (view source)
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One method of accessing existing OER is to search some text repositories. The most popular text OER repository is the digital encyclopedia, Wikipedia. You can access Wikipedia on <nowiki>http://en.wikipedia.org</nowiki>. Wikipedia is available in more than hundred other languages, so you may also be able to search for text OER in your native language. You can search for your topic in Wikipedia, by simply typing this text in the search bar. We will do this for ‘Digital Story Telling’ (DST) which is the OER proposed to be created as an exemplar by this tool-kit.
One method of accessing existing OER is to search some text repositories. The most popular text OER repository is the digital encyclopedia, Wikipedia. You can access Wikipedia on <nowiki>http://en.wikipedia.org</nowiki>. Wikipedia is available in more than hundred other languages, so you may also be able to search for text OER in your native language. You can search for your topic in Wikipedia, by simply typing this text in the search bar. We will do this for ‘Digital Story Telling’ (DST) which is the OER proposed to be created as an exemplar by this tool-kit.
[[File:COL_-_Searching_in_Wikipedia.png|left|thumb|450x450px|Wikipedia page]][[File:TextOER1.png|none|thumb|450x450px|Digital Story Telling page on English Wikipedia]][[File:TextOER2.png|thumb|450x450px|Language option to access Digital Story Telling page in other languages|left]]
[[File:COL_-_Searching_in_Wikipedia.png|left|thumb|400x400px|Wikipedia page]][[File:TextOER1.png|none|thumb|450x450px|Digital Story Telling page on English Wikipedia]][[File:TextOER2.png|thumb|450x450px|Language option to access Digital Story Telling page in other languages|none]]
Other popular OER sites include <nowiki>http://www.wikieducator.org</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://oercommons.org</nowiki>. A list of OER sites is available on <nowiki>http://www.searchoer.com/list-of-oer.html</nowiki>
Other popular OER sites include <nowiki>http://www.wikieducator.org</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://oercommons.org</nowiki>. A list of OER sites is available on <nowiki>http://www.searchoer.com/list-of-oer.html</nowiki>
====Searching the web for OER====
====Searching the web for OER====
In addition to accessing on the Wikipedia, you could also use a search engine to access information can use a search engine such as Google search engine or DuckDuckGo search engine. You could look for information by simply typing in Digital Story Telling in the search bar of the search engine; shown below are examples of how a search for "Digital Story Telling" would look like.
In addition to accessing on the Wikipedia, you could also use a search engine to access information can use a search engine such as Google search engine or DuckDuckGo search engine. You could look for information by simply typing in Digital Story Telling in the search bar of the search engine; shown below are examples of how a search for "Digital Story Telling" would look like.
[[File:COL_-_Google_Search_-_Adavance_Search_for_OER_1.png|left|thumb|450x450px|Image to display DST using Google search engine]]
[[File:COL_-_Google_Search_-_Adavance_Search_for_OER_1.png|left|thumb|500x500px|Image to display DST using Google search engine]]
[[File:COL_-_Searching_DST_using_DuckDuckGo_search_engine.png|thumb|450x450px|Image to display DST using DuckDuckGo search engine|none]]
[[File:COL_-_Searching_DST_using_DuckDuckGo_search_engine.png|thumb|500x500px|Image to display DST using DuckDuckGo search engine|none]]
The search engine will retrieve web pages for your topic that are both OER and non OER and it is important to specify OER in your search criteria.
The search engine will retrieve web pages for your topic that are both OER and non OER and it is important to specify OER in your search criteria.
