Saturday 15 May 2021

Saturday, May 15, 2021

 

Free online educational & entertainment sites, to help while the world is dealing with the pandemic. Also perhaps helpful in creating a new normal.

EDIT: Also some deals, as well as freebies.






Now here's something cool I found online recently, a YouTube page where you can listen to actors reading stories for your kids! https://www.youtube.com/user/StorylineOnline/videos

Here's a cool page, free audiobook short stories:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDDvUcNa5_hDQJ1-jWSJF4Q

LibriVox has free public domain audio books, to listen to or download: https://librivox.org/

 Both free & paid classes on learning American sign language: http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/index.htm

Here's some awesome online educational sites:
https://www.abcya.com/  (Has free & premium options)
https://www.nature.com/scitable/ A collaborative learning space for science.
https://www.duolingo.com/ Learn a language for free, forever.




Here's a list of free entrance days @ US National Parks:  https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/fee-free-parks.htm

I suppose you've heard of drag queen story time at libraries? Well, they've gone online, so nobody misses out while the libraries are closed.  Check it out! They also have a Facebook page! Here's a list of their Livestream events:  https://www.facebook.com/dragqueenstoryhour/events/



Google has a massive collection of art galleries & museums you can view online: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner?hl=en


Open Culture has 1,700 free online courses from top universities: https://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses
They also have hundreds of free e-books for i-pad, kindle or other devices: https://www.openculture.com/free_ebooks


90 Harvard University Online Classes, free:  https://online-learning.harvard.edu/catalog/FRee

MIT publishes virtually all of its course materials online for free. You can take hundreds of college courses completely free: https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm?fbclid=IwAR2H1xCfa6OJwJX4QR6Nn5Y16SBM1xfpFWO9peyac6nS18AU-NIVUV24Iyw

May 11, 2023 - Minnesota may soon have free tuition for public colleges for state residents whose families make less than $80,000  year (Actually, it's gone through the House & is now before the Senate):  https://scrippsnews.com/stories/minnesota-lawmakers-approve-free-tuition-for-public-colleges


Would you like to learn how to type (or improve your touch-typing skills?) The free "typing tutor" at this site offers 30 typing lessons that progressively teach the keyboard. Here, you'll also find fun, interactive, touch-typing games and tests. No downloads, installations, or registration is required to use this site.  https://www.freetypinggame.net/Default.asp

I couldn't help noticing that 1 of my favourite free ebook sites, wasn't listed. I've gotten many hours of excellent reading pleasure via the site prolific works, you can find out more here:  https://www.facebook.com/instafreebie/ 


UPDATE: December 17, 2022 - Ontario Universities are offering several free online courses:  https://www.narcity.com/toronto/ontario-universities-are-offering-so-many-free-courses-this-winter-here-are-7-you-can-try

Speaking of saving money, have you ever considered giving up cable? I did & it ain't that bad. If you are in Canada, CBC, CTV, Global & CITV all have shows online that you can watch for free the day after they come out on TV. Links are here:
CTV also has a list of older shows available free online, as well as movies: 
For CBC, go here: https://gem.cbc.ca/  & create a login account. They will of course, try to sell you a premium membership, you can just ignore it. You'll need to do some digging after that, but they have some interesting shows, including Coroner & Endlings. 

In the US, CBS, & NBC also do this. ABC has something similar, but you have to wait a week after the broadcast date. Fox gives you a free hour, I think. Netflix is still under $10 a month I think, & in the US, Hulu is $7.99 a month & it also has a free trial & optional add-ons for HBO, Showtime & Cinemax (at an extra cost, of course). You can also watch Crackle online, but it is no longer available in Canada, sorry. 

Slice TV is available online for free:  https://www.slice.ca/video/

I just found another one:  https://pluto.tv/

 Another interesting free site, lots of nature shows & documentaries: www.waterbear.com

Another new online free streaming site, is TubiTV:  https://tubitv.com/home
Both PlutoTV & Tubi are wonderful. But alas, the selection of shows is much more limited on Tubi in Canada, just like Netflix is.

The NFB (the Canadian National Film Board) has over 4,000 free films online, here:  https://www.nfb.ca/films/

Here's another, mostly comics, some strange stuff here, definitely worth checking out: 

Plus there's a lot of interesting content available on YouTube.  I even have a channel there: https://www.youtube.com/user/MichaelannDahlman/videos 
I am planning on doing a lot more videos there, including book reviews & other vlogs.

I just found this article & wanted to share it: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/10/3-easy-ways-help-kids-unlearn-gender-identity-sexual-orientation-bias-pandemic/?utm_content=buffer1359d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer&fbclid=IwAR1XCewCJQ8j8YOsB2_OnD0SPvmCNplxQcMv1N07QHDNC2fa-fIc31VedEE

And here's a helpful article, lots of streaming services are offering steep discounts &/or free trials: https://www.tvguide.com/news/streaming-services-for-free-discounts-coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR0fEld_iePx8_6gJwleVySUWWHZDhgHio8wGnaswM0bngSBb0GbJrEecqA
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