The following list has been copied over from Chatterpack.net

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Click any of the underlined headings to access that website

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Maths

• https://www.themathsfactor.com/

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Online learning

• Open Culture - 1,500 free courses from top Universities

• Open Culture - learn 48 different languages online - FREE

• University of Alabama - Free online archaeology and Egyptology Uni courses (create an account to log on)

• Open Learn - Free, online courses, Open university 

• BBC languages - Learn languages online free

• FrenchTeacher.Net - Free French study packs

• Sociology courses - Free online study

• Creative courses - Free online study

• A range of short, free online courses 

• Cambridge University Press - ALL 700 textbooks are currently available FREE in HTML format 

• Cambridge university - Higher education/Undergraduate courses and resources

• Royal institute - Christmas lectures. A series of lectures presenting scientific subjects to a general audience in an entertaining manner.

• Learn 10 useful things to say in...

  • French

  • Portuguese

  • German

  • Italian

  • Spanish

• Milan Presse - French magazines available to download

• Periodic videos - Science-related YouTube videos 

• Infobase databases and video streaming collections - Username: JCS_Distance and Password: learning to access:

  • Modern World History

  • Ancient and Medieval History

  • Science Online

  • Bloom’s Literature

  • World Religions

• iDEA - An international programme that helps you develop/demonstrate your digital, enterprise and employability skills for free

• U3A - Online courses for mature students

• Blocky games - Games to help beginners learn computer programming skills

• Scratch - Beginners computer programming games/projects

• T.K.S.S.T - Smart videos for curious minds of all ages

 

Geography and nature

• National Geographic

• Tutorful - Top Geography websites, YouTube videos, and resources 

• Project Noah – Global site where you can view and share wildlife

• Seterra - Free world geography, online quizzes 

• Online film festival - Resistance in the Rainforest

• Kent Wildlife association - Simple ideas you can do in the garden to help wildlife

• World games - Geography games 

• Wild Science - Podcast 

• The relationship between humans and animals - podcast

 

Music 

*Check the location/time zones of live-streamed concerts to calculate the UK start time. Time Zone calculator

• Concerts online - Various concerts held without audiences to stream online for people having to stay at home - list of live streaming concerts

• Free Opera  - Dates confirmed until the end of March. Check the website via the link for future dates to be added

• Free classical orchestras - Live streaming performances

• Free Chamber music - Live streaming

• Berlin Philharmonic orchestra - Live streams and performance archive

• Announcements/lists - of worldwide performances being streamed

• Livestream concerts list - artists and bands

• Bands and artists - streaming performances 

• Full-length concerts - watch online free

• Celebrities performing on social media

• Facebook Virtual Choir - Duet with a choir online

• Chris Martin (Coldplay) streaming from his home - YouTube

 

Arts and culture

• J P Brewer - View classic paintings online

• Walter's Museum - houses the highest artistic achievements from nearly every corner of the world. View some of the past, present, and future exhibitions

• Rob Biddulph an artist posting draw-along videos via Twitter here

• Google Arts and culture - Learn something new every day! 

• British Museum - Free videos

• BBC Radio 4 - The History of the world - podcasts

• 50 things that made modern economy - Podcasts

• Marquee TV - streaming arts and culture

• Teaching history - 100 objects from museums across the UK with resources, information and teaching ideas to inspire your students’ interest in history

• Exploration of the day - Artistic website connecting people from around the world

• Drama Online - Online theatrical performances

 

Literature online

• Gutenburg - Download free books, e.g. Shakespear, Edgar Allen Poe, Frankenstein, etc. 

• Listening books.org - For people with Parkinson's Disease, visual impairment, fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, mental health difficulty or learning difficulty such as Dyslexia, which impacts the ability to read or hold a book

• Solomon Kingsnorth - Books in PDF, Word and audiobook format - Alice in Wonderland / Wind in the Willows / The Railway Children / The Jungle Book / Peter Pan / Black Beauty

• Read great literature online - Free Ebooks, poetry, classic literature

• Read Free Literature - also includes study guides

• 50,000 free ebooks - arranged by genre

• Open Library Access - Free

• Audible - Free for this period - Available in 6 languages

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