Resources for everyone at home for an extended period

LIBRARY SERVICES YOU CAN ACCESS FROM HOME

Although the Halswell Library Te Hāpua is now closed for the next month at least,there are still many resources that you can access with your library card online.  AND you can also get a library card if you don't already have one!

• Choose from over 50,000 titles that you can read or listen to on your tablet, smartphone of laptop for free. Explore popular eBooks, eMagazines and eAudiobooks.
• Take a free course to sharpen your skills with Lynda.com. Over 6,300 courses and 267,000 tutorials on software, technology, creative and business skills are available. Check out other free eLearning resources.
• Choose from 10,000 epic films and documentaries through video streaming service Kanopy.
• Study one of 60 popular languages from basic right through to advanced levels with Mango Languages.
• Tamariki can check out fun games, animated stories and other eResources for kids. This page also has loads of fun learning tools.  
• Family history buff? Get started on your family tree with online eResources.

You’ll need a library card and PIN number to access most of the eResources. No card? No problem, sign up online now.

If you need help, use the online chat service, LiveOnline, or call 03 941 7923. 

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WORKING OUT WITH AN ONLINE CLASS

Christchurch City council sport and recreation have a number of online classes available to help you work out at home.  Scroll down this page to check out the different options and if you like these you might like to join in real time each day.


https://youtu.be/gHUVJKkjmSY   dance exercise ______________

LISTEN TO A PODCAST

Check out thousands of podcasts on every imaginable topic here
and listen to a few of them.


Here are some interesting sites sent in by Sylvia Lukey 

https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/eating-fried-chicken  

https://thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/business-is-boring-callaghan/27-03-2020/how-nanogirl-built-a-lockdown-ready-online-learning-platform-in-three-days/
 
Te Papa Museum 

Christchurch Art Gallery

Guggenheim Art Gallery

Tate gallery London

New South Wales Art Gallery

Learn about our night sky from these websites:

https://www.space.com/skywatching

World wide telescope
 
Skillshare  and Creative Live both offer a range of options for trying new stuff and learning how to do new things some free and some paid.  ‎  
 
 An article from Consumer on self–isolation and how to survive using technology. Good tips!

 
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LEARN SOMETHING NEW

Sign up free with Duolingo  or other language learning platforms and try learning a new language

www.coursera.org Some of the world’s leading Universities and organisations offer nearly 4000 free courses on science, arts, engineering, health, languages and more (including these new ones on COVID-19). Taught by enthusiastic lecturers who like to teach, they go from beginner through to degree level. 
Hint – most courses are free, but even the courses with a fee can be taken for free by selecting the ‘audit’ option at the enroll page.

Free on line learning at MIT-  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
Harvard University – some interesting free courses.


From a Stanford University experiment

here are some links to music 

NZ musicians 

Documentary about Cellist YoY o Ma. A wonderful documentation of what music is all about. 

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FIND MOVIES

Like movies?  Check out this website here and search for any movie to find out where you can get it and what it will cost.  

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WATCH OR LISTEN TO A TED TALK

Thousands of topics and speakers to choose from here

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Check out these craft projects  

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