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An OER creation process begins with reuse of existing OER; the Internet is a rich source of text OER. It is important to access OER while creating your own because you cannot use content not licensed for reuse.  You could either access popular known OER repositories or you could search the internet for resources you want.  A browser is needed for accessing the internet, a free and open source browser is [[Learn_Firefox|Mozilla Firefox]].

An OER creation process begins with reuse of existing OER; the Internet is a rich source of text OER. It is important to access OER while creating your own because you cannot use content not licensed for reuse.  You could either access popular known OER repositories or you could search the internet for resources you want.  A browser is needed for accessing the internet, a free and open source browser is [[Learn_Firefox|Mozilla Firefox]].

====Search from known repositories====

====Search from known repositories====

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 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 (image 1). 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 (image 2).

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Wikipedia is available in more than hundred other languages, so you    may also be able to search for text OER in your native language.

Wikipedia is available in more than hundred other languages (image 2), so you    may also be able to search for text OER in your native language.

[[File:TextOER2.png|thumb|450x450px|Image 3 - Language option to access Digital Story Telling page in other languages|none]]

[[File:TextOER2.png|thumb|450x450px|Image 3 - Language option to access Digital Story Telling page in other languages|none]]