Gather your Resources [Oct. 2, 2012, 11:31 a.m.]
What do you want to share? Will it be course lectures and presentations? Student notes and projects? Will you be building a website or learning modules? Posting a series of photos or making a video? In this step, identify all that you’ll hope to publish as OER.
At this point, you also ensure that all materials are in their native file formats, e.g. MS PowerPoint (.ppt), MS Word (.doc), OpenOffice.org Writer (.odt). This ensures that you and others you’re working with can easily make any necessary edits and additions to the content. You’ll also want to convert .pdf documents and other uncommon files into formats you and others can easily edit.
NOTE: Online collaborative working spaces like Google Docs are great for building documents or presentations as a group. These can then be exported in a variety of editable formats or even shared directly online with the public.