put a creative commons license on your blog

Next week we're going to talk about creative inspiration and collaboration, and how writers get ideas.

As you probably know, the internet has made it easier than ever to find and use others' work as we create our own.  It's important to understand what is available for free, and what we have to license and/or pay for.  So, we will also talk about intellectual property and who owns what in the digital world.

For Monday, please post a Creative Commons license on your blog.  You can do this easily:
1. Open the Blogger dashboard
2. Open the Layout page
3. Click the blue +Add a Gadget box (mine is in the sidebar-right-1 section); this will open another window with a list of gadgets
4. Click the blue/white plus sign next to HTML/ Javascript; this will lead you to a screen that looks like a blog post, with spaces for the title and content
5. You can leave the title empty
6. Paste the code below into the content box

<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License</a>.

7. Click 'Save'

When we meet, I'll explain more about Creative Commons and this particular license.  Each of you can then decide whether to keep this license or to change the permissions you want to share with the people who see your work.