How to Toolkit
Important Ideas
- Toolkits are a 'framing' for content, a remix about CC
- It is better to link out to other resources on the Web
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Take an existing kit and fork it (when possible)!
The CC Toolkit template is licensed CC BY, and was designed by a team of volunteers in the CC community.
Anyone can make a toolkit
All of the content is viewable in HTML, and the basic template will be available to copy into Wordpress sites. If you can read HTML or edit a WP page, you can remix a toolkit yourself.
No programming required (but it helps).
Why would I want to make a toolkit?
- I love Creative Commons, and want to share what I know
- It's nice to have little bundles of content to share about CC
- There's no toolkit that focuses on "CC and (insert topic)"
- An awesome toolkit exists, and I want to translate it!
- I want to add my personal touch to a toolkit!
Two ways to start
FInd your toolkit
Log into Wordpress and navigate to the site *pages
Your toolkit is already waiting for you, ready to have content loaded into it.
Pieces of the Toolkit
Edit your toolkit
This is what the editor for a toolkit page looks like
Fields to embed media
It's easy to make this toolkit your own. There are areas for text, which can be edited with basic HTML, and pre-formatted areas for media embedding.
Edit fields & text with tags
Describe the content/media
TASL (title of work, author name, source, license)
EMbed a sidebar Video (1/2)
Enter a title, paste in the embed code, write (and link) attribution
EMbed a sidebar video (2/2)
The video will appear and be playable in the sidebar, with attribution details below
EMbed a Slide deck (1/2)
Again, enter a title, paste in the embed code, and describe (and link) the attribution
Embed a slidedeck (2/2)
The slides will appear in the sidebar, as above
Upload Media files to Drive
Allow the media to be downloaded
One-click download
When ready, we will create a .zip of your toolkit folder, and place a link to it from the toolkit
Collect localizations
When a toolkit is translated, it can be connected and hosted with the original/base toolkits. Similarly, when a toolkit is adapted or contextualized, it can be mapped and highlighted on the toolkits website.
What you can do with a toolkit
- View a useful collection of media that explains CC
- Download the toolkit in part or as a whole
- Translate the toolkit and submit it to the site
- Take a copy of a toolkit and remix it for your own site
- Share your remix of a toolkit on the map
CC Toolkits Template / Editing Guide
By Billy Meinke
