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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 a media(images, audio and video) 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
* Like [https://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] is a popular text OER repository, [[commons:Main_Page|Wikimedia commons]] is a media(images, audio and video) 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|Search and display DST on Wikimedia Commons]]
[[File:COL_-_Wikimedia_Commons_Search_Image_-_DST_.png|left|thumb|450x450px|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.
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To get images that are OER, you can provide OER as a criteria in your search itself.</span> 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.
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.
[[File:COL_-_Google_Search_-_Adavance_Search_for_OER_1.png|left|thumb|500x500px|Google advanced search for Image OER]]
[[File:COL_-_Google_Search_-_Adavance_Search_for_OER_1.png|left|thumb|500x500px|Google advanced search for Image OER]]
[[File:COL_-_Google_Advanced_Search_for_OER_-_Usage_rights.png|thumb|500x500px|Google advance Search for Image OER - choosing the usage rights|none]]
[[File:COL_-_Google_Advanced_Search_for_OER_-_Usage_rights.png|thumb|500x500px|Google advance Search for Image OER - choosing the usage rights|none]]
=== Creating image resources using your camera ===
=== Creating image resources using your camera ===
=== Creating a simple animation (''Tux Paint'') ===
=== Creating a simple animation (''Tux Paint'') ===
Tux Paint allows you to create simple animations by letting you create a slide presentation of a set of images. You can save the image you drew. Make small changes to it and save it as a new file. You can then ‘play’ the two photos in a recurring manner to create a simple animation. Your animation can have as many images as you like.
Tux Paint allows you to create simple animations by letting you create a slide presentation of a set of images. You can save the image you drew. Make small changes to it and save it as a new file. You can then ‘play’ the two photos in a recurring manner to create a simple animation. Your animation can have as many images as you like.
[[File:COL_-_Simple_animation_using_Tux_Paint_-_Tree_with_leaves_and_fruits.png|thumb|400px|Creating an animation using two drawings in Tux Paint]]
We have created two drawings of a tree, one without fruits (shown in previous section) and one with (below). The second one is created simply by painting small fruits on the earlier painting and saving the same. Playing these two images recurrently in Tux Paint creates a simple animation of the changes in the tree over the seasons.
We have created two drawings of a tree, one without fruits (shown in previous section) and one with (below). The second one is created simply by painting small fruits on the earlier painting and saving the same. Playing these two images recurrently in Tux Paint creates a simple animation of the changes in the tree over the seasons.
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=== Creating image resources using a screen capture tool (Screenshot) ===
=== Creating image resources using a screen capture tool (Screenshot) ===
One of the simplest and yet very powerful ways of creating an image is to simply take a picture of your computer screen. You may have opened a web page on which there is an image or some text you want to store as an image, or it may be from a file on your computer, or it may be a snapshot of a video you are playing.
One of the simplest and yet very powerful ways of creating an image is to simply take a picture of your computer screen. You may have opened a web page on which there is an image or some text you want to store as an image, or it may be from a file on your computer, or it may be a snapshot of a video you are playing.
