Classes start, our dog is found, a darn good day!

Classes officially started today at The Tiziano Project. We got to meet our first group of students, a talented mix of aspiring photographers, videographers and journalists who are sure to knock our socks off with their work during the next two months.

I led a couple of lessons today about how to create a timeline on Dipity and how to start a blog on Tumblr. If you're interested in trying out some of the lessons yourself, check out our Tiziano Project Classroom, which has our full curriculum for the workshop, free tutorials for Dipity and Tumblr and will be regularly updated with all the things we teach during our workshop. Part of the nonprofit's goal is to be collaborative with other people and organizations who are teaching new media journalism, so feel free to use these tutorials to teach yourself or others how to get off the ground as a new media journalist.

Also, about 48 hours ago our housemates lost the house's beloved English Spaniel, Sam. Sam is a former bomb-sniffing dog that is just about the cutest thing you'll ever meet and has a whole house full of burly men melting whenever he trots by.

We were so worried! each of us went out in shifts calling his name all around our neighborhood, worried that the poor puppy wouldn't last long in the more than 100 degree heat of the past two days.

But much to our delight we got a call this afternoon that Sam was alive and well and we got to pick him up this afternoon. He even got a little chubby from all the food his temporary caretakers fed him.

Welcome back Sam!