How to Toolkit
Introduction
What is the CC Toolkits project?The CC Toolkits project is an ongoing effort to improve the content resources available to people who care about Creative Commons, and want to share it.
We're piloting new ways to collect and remix media toolkits, and are starting here with Wordpress as a foundation.
This slide deck will explain details of the CC Toolkits site, and show how you can use the page editor to create a toolkit!
Important Ideas
- A toolkit is simply a curation of linked learning materials
- Link out to other resources on the Web whenever possible
- Remix existing content when you can, always w/attribution
- There are no prescription for a toolkit, remix away!
The CC Toolkit template is licensed CC BY, and was designed by a team of volunteers in the CC community.
FInd your toolkit
Log in to Wordpress and navigate to the site Pages
Your toolkit page is already waiting for you, ready to have content loaded into it.
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 include attribution details in the "credits" field
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
We are still working on a simple way create a .zip of your toolkit, which will be placed in this field.
translations (1/2)
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.
translations (2/2)
Translations of the plain text documents can be placed in this folder
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
How to Make a Toolkit
By Billy Meinke
