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[[File:COL_-_Wikimedia_Commons_Search_Image_-_DST_.png|left|thumb|450x450px|Image - Search and display DST on Wikimedia Commons]]
[[File:COL_-_Wikimedia_Commons_Search_Image_-_DST_.png|left|thumb|450x450px|Image - Search and display DST on Wikimedia Commons]]
* 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 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 and selecting the ‘Images’ link.
You can search for images relating DST to simply typing in Digital Story Telling in the search bar of the search engine and selecting the ‘Images’ link.
[[File:Tux_Paint_-_creating_a_picture.png|left|thumb|450x450px|Image - Creating a drawing using brush in Tux Paint]]
[[File:Tux_Paint_-_creating_a_picture.png|left|thumb|450x450px|Image - Creating a drawing using brush in Tux Paint]]
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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. The left tool bar also has an eraser in case you want to erase any part of your drawing!
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. The left tool bar also has an eraser in case you want to erase any part of your drawing!
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You can thus easily create an image OER using Screenshot of an image from your computer or the web. As mentioned earlier, taking a photo of a copyrighted material (such as a photo), is a violation of the copyright law, with exception given for ‘fair use’.
You can thus easily create an image OER using Screenshot of an image from your computer or the web. As mentioned earlier, taking a photo of a copyrighted material (such as a photo), is a violation of the copyright law, with exception given for ‘fair use’.
We have inserted the image of the students interacting with the Community Health Institution official and a text box by the side of the image. The combination of an image and text resource adds more power and meaning of the information conveyed, than only the text or the image would have conveyed.
We have inserted the image of the students interacting with the Community Health Institution official and a text box by the side of the image. The combination of an image and text resource adds more power and meaning of the information conveyed, than only the text or the image would have conveyed.
=== Alternative applications - Tux Paint ===
=== Alternative applications and alternative platforms ===
Please refer to [[Teachers'_toolkit_for_creating_and_re-purposing_OER_using_FOSS/Annexure|Annexure]], for a list of equivalent Free and Open Source Software applications on the GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows and Android (Mobile phone) platforms and on the web, for image and animation software.
