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Teachers' toolkit for creating and re-purposing OER using FOSS/Image and animation OER (view source)
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=== Accessing image OER repositories ===
=== Accessing image OER repositories ===
* Like [https://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] is a popular text OER repository, [[commons:Main_Page|Wikimedia commons]] is an image OER repository. You can search for your topic in Wikimedia Commons, by simply typing the topic name in the search bar. We will do this for ‘Digital Story Telling’ (DST) which is the OER being created as an exemplar in this toolkit.
* Like [https://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] is a popular text OER repository, [[commons:Main_Page|Wikimedia commons]] is an image OER repository. You can search for your topic in Wikimedia Commons, by simply typing the topic name in the search bar. 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|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:COL_-_Google_Search_-_Adavance_Search_for_OER_1.png|left|thumb|450x450px|Image - Google advanced search for Image OER]]
[[File:COL_-_Google_Search_-_Adavance_Search_for_OER_1.png|left|thumb|450x450px|Image - Google advanced search for Image OER]]
To get images that are OER, you can provide OER as a criteria in your search itself. In Google image search select <u>Settings → Advanced Search</u>. In Advanced Search, you can select Usage Rights as ‘free to use, share or modify, even commercially’ to get OER that you can re-use, with or without modification.
=== Creating image resources using your camera ===
=== Creating image resources using your camera ===
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=== Inserting images in a text document (''LibreOffice Writer'') ===
=== Inserting images in a text document (''LibreOffice Writer'') ===
One of the ways of making OER powerful and high quality is by suitably integrating multiple resource formats. Images can be embedded / inserted into a text document. The image and the related text enhance the value of the other in the document.
One of the ways of making OER powerful and high quality is by suitably integrating multiple resource formats. Images can be embedded / inserted into a text document. The image and the related text enhance the value of the other in the document.
