We're not supposed to go anywhere unless we really have to, so even if we're still going to a workplace, we're at home more than usual. Are you looking for things to do at home besides watch TV or play video games all day long? Already ate all your quarantine snacks? Are the kids climbing the walls? Here are some resources:
The Butte College Library has tons of online resources for you to do your work remotely; take a look at our guide on "Using the Library Remotely" for all kinds of helps. But you can also use the Library remotely for fun and learning! Try these:
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- Explore twelve world-class museums with virtual tours.
- Practice your geography with the online game GeoGuessr.
- Bluprint, an online maker center, is offering free unlimited access to classes until April 9th.
Try some new forms of exercise:
- Gold's Gym is offering its app for free through May, with hundreds of workouts and videos.
- Try yoga! Down Dog is offering all their workout apps for free until April 1st, and here are several free video workouts from Core Power Yoga.
- Peloton is offering its workout app for free for 90 days.
- Work out with Chris Hemsworth for six weeks!
Read a free book on your device.
- The Butte County Public Library may be closed in meatspace, but online it offers lots of books, movies, and subscriptions.
- Project Gutenberg is a massive collection of free online books.
- Poke around the Internet Archive to find free books and videos, or entertain yourself by using the Wayback Machine to look at webpages from ten years ago.
- You don't need a Kindle to read Amazon books on your device; there's a Kindle app. Look at the daily deals for low-cost reads, or read one of the many books that are out of copyright and free to download.
Miss your live sports? Watch some classic games for free!
- The NBA is offering a free preview
- Watch NFL games for free until May
- You can watch hockey games too!
Listen to music! Many popular stars are offering content on their social media platforms. You can also try these offerings:
- The Metropolitan Opera has a free show every night!
- The Seattle Symphony also has a nightly performance.
- Wigmore Hall, one of the world's great concert halls, is offering past livestreams on demand.
- Playbill has a list of musicals available on streaming.
Learn stuff!
- Free guitar lessons from Fender
- Practice your math skills and learn new material at Khan Academy! Science videos too.
- HistoryExtra, the BBC's history magazine, is offering two weeks of unlimited access. Read all about historical plagues, from the Black Death to the sweating sickness!
- A free stop motion animation course, why not?
- Scholastic is offering its online courses for free right now, for K-9+. Practice your skills -- or have your kids practice theirs!
- Take an Ivy League class online for free. Here's a list of 450 courses you can start now.
- Learn all sorts of interesting things at How Stuff Works.
- Learn to write a play from a playwright! Or, take a free writing course!
- Got any embroidery thread lying around? Learn to do some fun decorative stitches that go on anything. (One of us has a teenage niece who is decorating her little sister's jeans)