CogBlogged Tagged ‘dominoe’

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog You can go back to a place, but you can’t go back. Nor should you want to. But maybe you want to. On my trip around the East Coast, I have visited bits of my past, e.g where I did my undergrad years (or where I did my undergraduate fun). On plotting today’s odyssey leg from southeastern Pennsylvania to Washington, I noticed my route went very near Thurmont Maryland. Which is near Cactoctin Mountain Park. Which us where, almost exactly 25 tears ago (well in 3 weeks), is the place I lost Dominoe in the woods, and she found me.

Thanks to Martin Weller, I was tipped off to today’s flickr blog theme as being D is for Dalmatian. Of course, given my favorite of favorite lost/found/lost/found dogs, I had to take a peek. Interestingly, I spotted 53212 photos found by searching on “dalmatian” sorted by interestingness (well I did not actually count, I used the numbers at the bottom) Of those, some 4515 are licensed creative commons- that is a whopping 8.5% of the total. The road to openness and sharing is a long slow uphill climb. Or maybe I should try my “glass is already 8.5% full” attitude? Among the few is “The Perfect Dog” cc licensed ( BY SD ) flickr photo shared by J. Chris Vaughan And I knew one who was just as perfect to me– cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo [...]

If you’ve clicked by my 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell Story you will know I have told the same old dog story 50+ times, so it was a refreshing suprise when I got an email tonight from Claudia Ceraso describing a novel way she used Dominoe’s flickr set as a way to have her students create their own stories based solely on what they cold imagine from the photo set. I have shared with my teen and young adult students your Dominoe story. I simply showed them the slideshow without the text and told them it was part of a real life story. I asked them to write and here is the result: four stories -some done collaboratively, some not. I should have recorded the brainstorming we had after seeing your pics projected in an IWB. Their first reaction was to talk about feelings and a potential sad ending [...]

cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Today (July 24) is my day to honor my first and most special dog, Dominoe, who left this world in 1993. Is it really 17 years? That’s a full generation. And it was long after that that I told her story like 50 million times. cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog It’s been a long way too since Rossridge Apartments, in Baltimore, the place I was living when I took her in, when my room-mate Kevin literally called me and said, “do you want a dog?” This was a cusp of time in many ways, leaving the life of a place I grew up in and hardly left, and turning that whole leaf less than 10 monts later, by packing all my stuff, including Dominoe, into a 1973 Ford Maverick and driving it all the way to Arizona. You should never forget [...]