Dear All

Dear All,

Here's the link to my story with the working title "Toby saves Teddy". I'm open to any other suggestions.
I would love to hear from you - how relevant is the story in your countries and would you be willing to discuss this topic with your students? In Greece, the atrocity of dog abuse is something we experience every day. (BTW, at the moment, I feed many strays, but I'm taking a special care of two lovely 4-month-old puppies and I'm desperately looking for families and homes for them. So, if you know sb who is willing to adopt, contact me.) See, this is my reality, and I feel that I must do much more than just feed, give water and find a home for a couple of strays when millions of them need help. People in Greece need to get educated, and the best way is to reach the very little ones and shape their attitudes from the start.
Sorry for all the talking, but I just can't stop when I bring up the subject.
Looking forward to reading your feedback.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rOr4-SDhWwOv-S8ru-xSIqAIqnWb35hB/view?usp=sharing

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  1. Laura PerrottaSeptember 9, 2018 at 6:44 AM

    Margarita Kosior the same situation in Argentina! It'll work very well here. I can't leave comments, it says "only view"

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  2. Margarita KosiorSeptember 9, 2018 at 6:46 AM

    Laura Perrotta thanks for letting me know. I'll change the settings now. Don't go anywhere :)

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  3. Margarita KosiorSeptember 9, 2018 at 6:50 AM

    Laura Perrotta I opened this doc in an incognito window and I can add comments. I just click on the middle button. Does it look like this on your computer?
    https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eliIGitGuvw94qaSOcg4avBFZQ6QLgLlTv1NEmsdL51uZcbF8ycrxmFeTKg_nPk-9e7GKWSV8h6kco=s0

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  4. Laura PerrottaSeptember 9, 2018 at 6:52 AM

    Lovely lovely story!!!! 💕

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  5. Margarita KosiorSeptember 9, 2018 at 6:52 AM

    Maybe this helps better:
    https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/zaf0cllduThxPJ_RG3xctA5HR61QlJ1QGQDiuHDIba19vC6FPn8okw10KWVk3KMn8apWvfNxzzyMu6Q=s0

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  6. Margarita KosiorSeptember 9, 2018 at 6:54 AM

    Laura Perrotta Thank you for taking the time to read my story. I'm really happy you like it. I hope you manage to leave some comments, too.

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  7. Dorothy ZemachSeptember 9, 2018 at 10:40 AM

    I was able to add comments... What a sweet story! Do you have any of the illustrations you can share? What kind of file format are they?

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  8. Margarita KosiorSeptember 9, 2018 at 10:49 AM

    Dorothy Zemach my daughter is starting to draw. I should have the first images ready tomorrow. I will scan them and they'll be in the jpg format. I'm happy you liked the story :) It's my dream to have these stories out in print too. The case of stray dogs is exceptionally important for me.

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  9. Margarita KosiorSeptember 9, 2018 at 1:41 PM

    Dorothy Zemach I just checked and I cannot see your comments. I hope they didn't just disappear... Any idea what went wrong?

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  10. Dorothy ZemachSeptember 9, 2018 at 2:17 PM

    Margarita Kosior I'm not sure! Let me check around...

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  11. Dorothy ZemachSeptember 9, 2018 at 2:19 PM

    Margarita Kosior Odd... I don't even see the comment from the other person now. Let me check with Barb and see if she has any ideas.

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  12. Dorothy ZemachSeptember 9, 2018 at 2:21 PM

    Margarita Kosior I still see it in MY google drive with all my comments... is the document not in YOUR google drive anymore?

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  13. Margarita KosiorSeptember 9, 2018 at 2:31 PM

    Dorothy Zemach The first comment was from my partner, Dimitris. It was a test comment which he added after my chat with Laura. I shared the file with him to see if he could leave comments. I have just now deleted Dimitris' comment so that it doesn't confuse us. And the Word file is still in my drive...

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  14. Dorothy ZemachSeptember 9, 2018 at 2:37 PM

    Well, I'm not sure, then! I've asked Barb for help. Can you see the comments here?

    docs.google.com - Toby to the rescue

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  15. Dorothy ZemachSeptember 9, 2018 at 2:38 PM

    Margarita Kosior I think maybe you shared a Word doc that you didn't put in Google Drive? Did you follow these steps (posted by Barb)?

    To do that, you'll need to upload your word doc to Google Drive, and then get a shareable link that allows comments. Share that link in the category "Works in Progress". Google community only allows us to share links, so documents need to be stored somewhere online, and Google Drive works well for this.

    After you upload your doc to Google Drive, click on "get shareable link" and then make sure that you choose the permissions option that says "Anyone with the link can comment".

    This is the link from MY google drive. Can you read the comments here?

    docs.google.com - Toby to the rescue

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  16. Margarita KosiorSeptember 9, 2018 at 2:43 PM

    Dorothy Zemach Yes I can! I'm gonna work with this. Thanks a million. Tomorrow my daughter, Evita, will have the cover image ready for me. It will probably be the same with the last-but-one image in the story: close-up of little Nick and the dog close to each other. Evita's idea was to have the cover with the boy and the dog with Teddy in his mouth - but that would give away the ending of the story, wouldn't it? What do you think?

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  17. Dorothy ZemachSeptember 9, 2018 at 2:46 PM

    Margarita Kosior It might be OK--after all, we don't know from that image if the dog found the toy or stole it, right?

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  18. Margarita KosiorSeptember 9, 2018 at 2:49 PM

    Dorothy Zemach No idea what went wrong in the whole process. I have just opened the original document, the one which is in my drive, in a new incognito window and left an anonymous comment and it's there and I can see it. The good thing is I can see your comments now but I hope I'm not missing other people's comments just because I can't see them :/

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  19. Barbara Hoskins SakamotoSeptember 10, 2018 at 6:22 AM

    I've looked at both docs and can see (and add comments to both). I don't really know what happened, but it's possible that when Dorothy added the document to her drive (rather than just clicking this link to open and then adding comments to that doc) it made a copy of the doc. Probably the important thing is that you can see the comments on the link Dorothy shared :)

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  20. Wilma LuthSeptember 10, 2018 at 9:31 AM

    Such a sweet story. I've added comments. :-)

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