Online Courses

We have put together a selection of sites that offer educational content from online talks to online courses

• Edx: https://www.edx.org/

• Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/

• MIT’s Open CourseWare: https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

• FutureLearn: https://www.futurelearn.com/

• Stanford Online: https://online.stanford.edu/about-us/learning-for-a-lifetime

• Open Culture: lets you browse courses by subject from a multitude of sites like the above: http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses

A few minutes timeout

Take some time out for yourself with one of the calming options below

• Patrick Stewart reads Shakespeare (requires Facebook account): https://www.facebook.com/patrickstewart/videos/198993371551947/

• 5 minute Meditation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inpok4MKVLM

• Jigsaw Puzzles online: https://thejigsawpuzzles.com/

Cooking

Not able to get your favourite take out or would love to learn to cook an ethnic cuisine?  Make it at home!

• Korean Cooking with Maangchi: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8gFadPgK2r1ndqLI04Xvvw
• Jamie Oliver: https://www.youtube.com/user/JamieOliver
• Gordon Ramsey: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTzMGnJjrsSyTppvwM66fJbQQFeaEgyxE
• Tasty You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJFp8uSYCjXOMnkUyb3CQ3Q
• The Cooking Channel on You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/user/CookingChannel
• The Food Network: https://www.youtube.com/user/FoodNetworkTV

Practical Boredom Busters

It might not be fun but may as well get practical things crossed off your list.

• Clean the oven

• Create your budget

• Wardrobe clear out

• Clean the fridge

• Clean and organise the pantry

Online Talks

There are so many options within heaps of the below.  Search your heart out!!

• TED Talks: https://www.ted.com/talks 

• TEDx Talks: https://www.ted.com/watch/tedx-talks

• Auckland Libraries Heritage Talks: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkMKU0JvwTBbCZ7G11puLx8UkyPJqQ4Cq

Zoo's, Libraries, Museum's and Art Galleries

• Guggenheim Online: https://www.guggenheim.org/collection-online

• British Museum: https://britishmuseum.withgoogle.com/

• Natural History Museum: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdcEKPS6tOQ

• Zoos Victoria - live streaming: https://www.zoo.org.au/animal-house

• Vatican: https://digi.vatlib.it/

• Bodleian: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

Other

Everything from Yoga to colouring!

• Yoga (via YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7xsYgTeM2Q

• Internet Archive Audio Collections - “contains recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users” - https://archive.org/details/audio?tab=about

• Color our Collections; an online collection of colouring books created by museums and art galleries, turning items in their collections into colouring pages: http://library.nyam.org/colorourcollections/

• Take a  ride on the world's tallest, fastest and longest dive coaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PghLRu0rB4&feature=youtu.be

• See hidden places in US national parks - from volcanoes in Hawaii to Fjords in Alaska, there's lots to explore:  https://artsandculture.withgoogle.com/en-us/national-parks-service/parks

• Les Mills Ondemand: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/les-mills-ondemand