Week 5: New Challenges

In the beginning of this summer I became a lucky owner of a beautiful gray Merida – my super bike! And yesterday I rode my first 23 km (14.3 mi) tour around an amazing Baidary Valley near my home town. My first time. Sometimes I thought I would die – it was hard to ride uphill. But I did it! I felt like a champion. No! A super hero! How many ‘first times’ did you have when you were happy ever after?

Well, it all may sound like fun but let me testify to more ‘first times’ that have been happening and happening to me since the end of June. Participating in the UO summer course, I:

• wrote an ABCD objective,
• joined Delicious.com,
• created a WebQuest,
• wrote an assessment rubric,
• started a reflection online journal,
• wrote a technology-enhanced lesson plan 

for the first time!

Every task is a challenge and I feel really tired. This summer I spend more time at the computer and not at the beach (I live right on the coast of the Black Sea, two minutes of walking to the nearest beach.) However I am excited to do a task after a task because I want to learn more and I am open to new ideas. I want more ‘first times’ in the coming five weeks.

It’s a challenge that makes me happy.

Image courtesy of Dreamstime.com