If you are seeking some entertainment while remaining at home, there is a wealth of resources online to help you continue to learn new skills and take in culture. The following links include music, museum tours, ways to learn a language and more, all via the internet and all gathered from members of the BCB community. Learning and growing are still possible in the times of social distancing.
- Museums in Paris have published over 100,000 images online—delve into the artistic variety and depth of these collections here.
- Tune into live streams of classical music, featuring the Met Opera and the Berlin Philharmonic.
- Feeling artsy? Download free coloring books from 113 museums.
- Twelve museums from around the world, from the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, are offering free virtual tours of their museums.
- This list includes many quarantine activities, mostly games for children, but potentially appropriate for the playful of any age.
- Adobe Creative Cloud has made all Creative Cloud tools free for students (includes Photoshop, InDesign and more!).
- On his Facebook profile, this fantastic festival programmer is offering a curated selection of short films for the Corona age.
- Duolingo is an app that allows users to learn and practice a number of languages, including Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Welsh, and even… High Valyrian?
- Verso Books has created a selection of free ebooks available until April 2nd.
- BBC Earth, Nature PBS, Explore Oceans, and Explore Birds, Bats and Bees are four YouTube channels with high-definition nature videos. Looking at nature (even on a screen) has been proven to calm you down and help you focus
- This list, provided by The New York Times, suggests some comforting TV shows.
- This website compiles writing exercises and prompts, including random story title ideas, fictional film plots, and character exercises.
- Grokker has made their yoga content free for in-home yoga workouts during this time.
- BCB has registered with this app, Down Dog, to provide free in-home yoga lessons until July 1st.
- Planet Fitness has also created free live-stream at-home workout videos.
- The Smithsonian Museum has an open access portal in which you can view many images and objects from their collection.
- Google Arts and Culture has many interesting images and articles about paintings, photos, buildings and more from all over the world.
- Through Coursera, users can take many free courses from universities including Stanford, Duke, and Imperial College.
- Compiled on Free Code Camp, here is a list of 450 Ivy League courses that you can take for free.
- Google also has a number of free online courses, provided by Google as well as a number of other institutions.
- This website provides various art and coloring exercises, a great way to slow down and do a meditative task.
- For the game lovers, here is online sudoku and online chess.
- The US National Aquarium has a live stream available here.
- There are plenty of full-length lectures available on Youtube, provided by Yale, Stanford, Harvard, Oxford, and MIT.
- Codeacademy is a website that allows users to learn to code for free.
- Get access to films online through Bard on Kanopy.