Fusion 2009 presentation entitled Course Shells Aren't Just For Courses! Other Uses in Desire2Learn by Meagan Taylor-Booth, Cathy Cheely, and Dana Anderson.  About 30 people in attendance.

Fusion 2009 presentation entitled Where's My Stuff: Are Your Students Content with Your Content? by Sherry Lindquist and Karen Znajda.   About 40 people in attendance.

Fusion 2009 hands-on presentation entitled Developing Labs for Online Science Courses by Theresa Hornstein and Deanne Roquet.  About 20 people in attendence.

Fusion09 presentation entitled as Good Reasons to Blog by D2L Staff.  About 30 people in attendance.

Fusion09 presentation entitled Combining Multimedia and "Active Learning" Techniques to "Stimulate Learning" by Jennie Mitchell and Daesang Kim.  About 20 on provided PCs and 12 of us sitting to the side. ...left early.  Turned out to be a hands-on how-to insert multimedia into D2L.  Since I do that daily, it wasn't necessary for me.

Professor Sue McKnight, moderator

Panelists: Terri-Lynn Brown, Alfred Essa, Stephen Downes

We only exist because of the needs of students.

• Don't assume you know what the students needs, because unless you really try to find out, you don't.
• Survey found discrepency between what observers anticipated student response to be and actual student response (shocking!)

How do we know what students need (Terri-Lynn)

Fusion09 presentation entitled Yep, You Can Do That!  Creative Solutions to D2L Troubles by Greg Jorgensen and Karin Duncan.  About 40 people in attendance.

Fusion09 presentation entitled Creating Accessible Course Content presented by Sandra Earl and Kyle Mackie.  About 35 in attendence.  A good primer on the topic.

Fusion09 Presentation entitled Enhancing the Online Classroom Experience with an Array of Web 2.0 Tools by Sheri Steinke, Laurie Lykken, and Kathy Grady.  About 50 people in attendence. A descent presentation.

An interesting evening...  A cool acrobatics show with a D2L products announcement intermission in the middle.  A bit odd, but still, a few neat announcements came from that part: