Weekly Activities

Note: The Library2.Oakton learning program was officially held in the summer of 2008, but the learning continues on this blog. New news and tips will be added! Please feel free to go through the original 8-week program if you’re visiting for the first-time and are interested in learning about these great tools!

More information on the topics and activities will be posted on this blog by Monday morning of each week. Participants will also receive an email with the same information. Questions? Email oaktonlibrary@gmail.com.

Week 1, June 2-8: Blogs

Week 2, June 9-15: RSS

Week 3, June 16-22: Wikis

Week 4, June 23-29: Flickr & YouTube

Week 5, June 30-July 6: Social Bookmarking

Week 6, July 7-13: Online Social Networks

Week 7, July 14-20: Instant Messaging

Week 8, July 21-31: Online Tools & Applications

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Bonus Discovery Period, August 1-20

Spend this time before the fall semester begins to go back to any activities you might have rushed through or to dig deeper into any activities that especially caught your interest. Apply these tools to your own work and the Library’s services as a whole. How can we take advantage of these tools and technologies to improve services to the OCC community? Explore! Discover! Play!

Wrap-up @ All-Library meeting, August 21

You explored, discovered, and played with these new tools and technologies! Now it’s time for us to come together and wrap things up!