Creation in Progress...

I was quite enamored with the CLT! I had known vaguely that it was there and wandered in/by a few times early on in the school year, but I never got a proper tour or learned about all it could do. I have plans to spend a great deal of time there!

I for the most part see my future use of the CLT as personal and recreational, but I can see a few more practical, school-related (though to be fair, those two don't always coincide) uses as well. 

For our CS1300 class, I believe we will be making websites, or at least pages, at some point near the end of the semester, if I remember the syllabus right (if not, this entire argument goes out the window). I would imagine the nice techies in the CLT would be quite useful in spiffing up my page- helping me create and imbed little videos, have nice, creative layouts rather than that which shows up from the most basic HTML coding, etc. 

For other classes (I can think specifically of my Comparing Countries class), they can help me put together visually stimulating and impressive presentations- getting a little flashier than your standard powerpoint! Having decent points and information are of course up to me, but I think it is safe to assume that if I am willing to spend several hours learning how to use the fancy technology to make my pretty presentation, I will be invested enough in the presentation to have good facts and arguments. 

More often than not, however, I think I will use the CLT for my own projects and amusement. I am an amateur (future professional) filmmaker, but I have always absolutely abhorred the editing process, mainly because I sort of fail at it. I am excited that I now have an excellent resource to learn how to do this, and fabulous equipment and software with which to do it! Also, I can't begin to tell you how excited I am about the VHS-to-DVD conversion thing they have going.