Using Creative Commons (CC):

 

1.     Go to http://creativecommons.org/

-this site can be used as a search engine or to upload your own information to share using licensing and copyright-fees apply

2.     Click on the “About” tab

a.     Click on “Videos and Comics” on right panel (6th item in blue text)

b.     Watch the videos to learn what CC is about and how to navigate

                                                    i.     Most basic: “A Shared Culture”

                                                   ii.     Whose using CC: “Wanna Work Together?”

3.     Add a Creative Commons link to your blog to help spread the word

a.     Click on the “Donate” tab

b.     Click on “Spread the Word”

c.     Get a Button

                                                    i.     Copy the HTML text from the box

                                                   ii.     Sign into your blog

                                                  iii.     Customize-top toolbar

                                                 iv.     Under the Layout tab-Edit HTML

                                                  v.     Find the text <body> at bottom of the HTML for your blog

                                                 vi.     Right above this (between <div> and <body>) past the HTML text from Creative Commons. It should look like this (see red arrow):

 

 

 

Save the template.

 

 

 

View blog and the icon should appear at the bottom of your blog.