Thread by @ramonapringle

In my @cbcradio column today, I have a roundup of online resources to keep everyone from kids to adults busy at home, while we all do our part to #FlattenTheCurve. Here are the links: /1

**Starting with kids** lots of parents are worrying about how they’ll keep little ones occupied while they’re home from school. The good news is, there are a ton of online resources and many of them are free right now: /2

Kahn Academy offers free online lessons in a range of topics. They’ve created learning schedules that parents can download and tweak with suggestions on how to spend the day for different age groups & learning resources. /3

docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…

Scratch is a great resource that has always been free. With this MIT-developed tool, kids can learn the basics of coding (and you can learn right alongside them!) Make games, animations, and interactive stories, and then share them with the community. /4
scratch.mit.edu/about

Scholastic has launched a free “Learn at Home" website that has daily courses for students from Pre-K to grades 6 /5
classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learna…

Here's a comprehensive list of other educational apps that are currently available for free /6 kidsactivitiesblog.com/135609/list-of…

For little artists (of all ages) out there, Kennedy Centre Artist in Residence Mo Willems is doing live lunch doodles daily at 1pm EST /7

For higher education and K-12 customers who currently provide Adobe Creative Cloud apps to their students and employees, Adobe is now offering free access at-home access to the apps if the organization requests it. /8
theblog.adobe.com/adobe-enables-…

Starting next Monday 3/20, Cleveland Inner City Ballet will launch a FREE Virtual Online Ballet Instruction Program /9 facebook.com/ClevelandInner…

Ok, now for **older learners** : /10

Here’s a great list of 450 free online courses you can take from Ivy League schools, covering topics including programming, art and design, health and medicine, and education and training. /11 freecodecamp.org/news/here-are-…

If you want to use this time to brush up on your musical production, popular synth apps Moog and Korg have made their apps free. /12
faroutmagazine.co.uk/moog-korg-synt…

If you’re curious to learn more about Hackers, Hack_Curio is packed full of videos that help “explain why hacking is one of the most important phenomena of global culture and politics in the late 20th and early 21st century.” (h/t @BiellaColeman) /13 hackcur.io

Also don’t underestimate Youtube! Want to learn woodworking? Create your own sourdough starter?

Sour dough starter:


Rainbow-everything treats to bake some cheer:
youtube.com/channel/UCoMum…

/14

Next up, **cultural activities** for the whole family: /15

Take virtual tours of some of the world’s top museums: For instance, you can walk through the Musée D’orsay in Paris, which is home to artworks from Monet, Cézanne, and Gauguin, among others. /16 artsandculture.google.com/partner/musee-…

And if you miss the experience of going to the museum gift shop, Open Culture has a collection of free colouring books from top museums and galleries as well, that you can download & print. /17
openculture.com/2016/02/downlo…

Then, if you want an evening activity to look forward to, New York's Metropolitan Opera is offering free digital shows every night at 7:30 pm EST /18
metopera.org/about/press-re…

Movies are moving online, too. Disney+ has the mega-hit Frozen 2 streaming three months before it was scheduled, and NBCUniversal has announced that the movies it had scheduled for theatrical release will now be made available on-demand. /19

**For animal lovers:** /20

The Cincinnati Zoo has launched Home Safari Facebook Live each weekday at 3pm at 3pm EST where they will highlight one of animal and include an activity you can do from home. /21
facebook.com/cincinnatizoo/…

There are lots of live webcams you can bookmark, like the Monterey Bay Aquarium which has live web cams to watch otters, sharks and penguins:
montereybayaquarium.org/animals/live-c…

Africam has a number of live safari cameras:
africam.com/wildlife/index…

/22

Here's a few more suggestions from friends and colleagues across the web: make plans to get dressed up and have "virtual drinks" Friday night, where you log into Google Hangout together... /23

Or, try something similar for brunch on Sunday, where everyone cooks at home then logs in to a shared video conference. That's why we love brunch anyway, isn't it? Catching up with each other ❤️ /24

So many of the suggestions in this list can be turned into (virtual) communal activities: check out the same museum with your friends, take an online course together and hold discussions, start a baking club where to try the same recipes (#NailedIt) /25

Socially distancing ourselves is critical right now, but that doesn't mean we should be socially isolated.

Hope this thread has been helpful!

I'd love to hear how you're all staying busy, and staying connected. /26

❤️❤️

This "Virtual Camp" looks like it could be neat too: "From math puzzles, to treasure hunts... space travel to robot designers, we intend to provide parents and kids with as much live, fun, and educational content as possible." eventsystempro.com/virtualcamp/in…

Another: Netflix Party is a new way to watch Netflix with your friends online. Netflix Party synchronizes video playback and adds group chat to your favorite Netflix shows. netflixparty.com/?fbclid=IwAR33…

And this one: from the good people at Let's Talk Science, a feed of quality, informative science videos, filterable by grade and topic, and human-curated by journalists at @vubblePOP letstalkscience.ca/educational-re…

Stay at Home Fest -- listing of online music events stayathomefest.com/?fbclid=IwAR2r…