Introduction

In the previous section you learned how to find, manage and critically evaluate digital resources created by other people or organisations. In this Unit you will find out how to create and share your own digital resources to tell your own digital stories.

Outcomes

Upon completion of this unit you will be able to:

• Understand the concept of digital storytelling
• Produce some of your own digital resources
• Share your own digital resources
• Identify and find open educational resources
• Re-purpose content originally created by someone else.

Terminology

Digital storytelling:
Using digital media to create fictional and nonfictional narratives for different audiences.

Re-purpose:
Use an OER or openly-licensed resource in a new educational context or for a specific teaching objective.

Re-use:
Use an OER openly-licensed resource created by someone else in your educational context.

Re-mix:
Combine one or more OER openly-licensed resource with other educational content to produce a new resources.

Mash-up:
A more radical form of remixing in which content is substantively altered or transformed while being combined with other material.

OER:
Educational materials that are made available under an open licence that unambiguously states how they may be reused.