Showing posts with label virtual learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label virtual learning. Show all posts

Friday, September 4, 2020

UPDATED: 99 Online Museums to Visit Without Leaving the Classroom

 

Taken at the Museum of Tolerance
Here's a pretty extensive listing of museums for you to use in your curriculum. I've covered subject areas of art, culture, history, natural history, science, technology and miscellaneous. Please add any suggestions you have to the comments section.

PARTIALLY UPDATED: 4/28/26

ART AND OUR CULTURE

Art Institute of Chicago

Artsonia- world's largest art museum for young artists; this is an excellent place "to post and find student art"; all graphics are done by students.

The Barnes Foundationan art collection and educational institution promoting the appreciation of art and horticulture

Bling Universe- art museum in Maryland

Musee d'Orsay-very large galleries

Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)- multimedia site

National Gallery of Art- online tours of the Washington, DC museum

National Museum of Women in the Arts- more than 3,000 works from the 16th century to the present

National Portrait Gallery: London- digital history resources

Philadelphia Museum of Art- explore online collection database

The Rodin MuseumWith nearly 150 bronzes, marbles, and plasters, the distinguished collection housed in the Rodin Museum represents every phase of Auguste Rodin’s career.

State Hermitage Museum- St. Petersburg, Russia

Tate Online- British & International Modern Art

The Van Gogh Museum- located in the Netherlands

Uffizi Gallery- Florence, Italy

Vatican Collections Online-virtual tour of the Sistine Chapel



HISTORY
American Memory Historical Collections

The Anne Frank Museum

The British Museum

Colonial Williamsburg Museums

Conner Prairie Interactive History Park- Indiana

The Hermitage- located in Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ
Imperial War Museum

Memorial Hall Museum Online: American Centuries, View from New England
- for researcher, educators and students; explore American History with hands-on activities, exhibits, lessons, historic documents and artifacts.

Museum of Tolerance

National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum

National Museum of the American Indian

Boston Children's MuseumThe Boston Children’s Museum welcomes online visitors into its exhibits (no lines!) and you can supplement the images with your own at-home activities and games.

The Freud Museum (London)

Mathematics Museum (Japan) 

National Inventors Hall of Fame

Canadian Museum of Nature 

Museum of Paleontology- Univ. of California, Berkeley

Natural History Museum- Los Angeles County- activities and programs; teacher resources

Natural History Museum of Florence University- botanical

Nature Online- Natural History Museum; London

Ology at the American Museum of Natural History- for young children

University of Michigan Exhibit Museum of Natural History-virtual tour 

                                          


Science and Technology
The Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexel Universitythe oldest natural science research institution and museum in the Americas; features Science from Home page, Academy Kids and more.

Computer History Museum

Exploratorium- this is a hands on science museum which has online versions of some of their exhibit

The Field Museum-several permanent exhibits

IEEE Virtual Museum-the history of electronics, electricity and computers

MIT Museum- multimedia


The Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia- a medical museum which contains a collection of anatomical and pathological specimens, wax models, and antique medical equipment

National Air and Space Museum- Smithsonian

The Paley Center for Media (formerly The Museum of Television and Radio)

Robotics- part of the Tech Museum


The Science Museum of London- students can explore over 250,000 objects and archives from the collection of the Science Museum Group.

Science Museum of Minnesota-online activities

Try Science- virtual field trips for kids

Friday, March 20, 2020

Thousands of Online (Mostly FREE) Resources to Deal With Social Distancing


We are all in this together. Many companies are stepping up and offering free concerts, movies, lectures and classes, and it's wonderful that we have all these options! (Don't forget to read, folks!) Here's my curated list of things to view while you practice your social distancing. Feel free to add any suggestions in the comments section, as I will be updating this post regularly.



eBOOKS
150 Free Textbooks- meta collection from Open Culture's blog

1,000+ Open Textbooks and Learning Resources for All Subjects


4eBooks- computer programming books; very large collection


Academic eBooks- covers humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, formal sciences and professions & applied sciences.


askSam eBooks  and Databases- askSam viewer needed for downloaded books


Barnes and Noble Free Nook Books- search 0.00 and get a listing of free eBooks


Bartleby-small site contains classic literature, poetry and reference works.


Bibliotastic-free downloads for indie authors; rating system for titles


BluePortal- computer-related titles, such as Facebook for Dummies, Javascript Bible and the Digital Photography Workflow Handbook.


Bookyards- currently 800,000 ebooks

Books Buddy- a Nook app to locate free books

Digital Library NJ- Kindle, Nook; library card needed

eBooks Habit- regular postings

eBook Lobby- categories include art and photography, children's books, literature and fiction and sports.

eBooks Directory- close to 1700 titles; includes textbooks, lecture notes; updated daily


Flatworld Knowledge- free textbooks


FreeBookSpot- 96 categories and over 4,4000 titles


Free-eBooks- register for free; download on iPhone or computer; includes magazines


Free Computer and IT Books


FreeComputerBooks- 12 major categories and 150 sub-categories; includes tutorials. lecture notes and computer and math eBooks.


FreeBook-s- download for iPad, smartphone or eBook reader; this is a search engine which looks through many collections to find eBooks.



FreeTechBooks- covers computer science, engineering, programming, textbooks and lecture notes.

eReaderPerks- Kindle, Kobo and Nook; also, the "latest device news, book/ereader reviews and author interviews."

Feedbooks- Kindle, Nook; public domain books

Fictionwise eBooks- Kindle, Nook

GetFree eBooks- free legal downloads

Globusz Publishing- ePublishing house which has free downloads

Goodkindles- up and coming authors offer short-time free downloads via Amazon

Inkmesh- search engine for free eBooks, including Kindle and Nook

Internet Archive- Kindle, Nook

Kindle Store's Top 100 Free

KnowFree- ebooks, video training, educational materials; IT books and magazines

Kobo- includes NY Times Bestsellers, Oprah's Book Club


Lendink- loan and borrow "officially lendable eBooks for your Kindle and Nook."

Librophile- search by genre


ManyBooks- more than 29,000 eBooks; download to iPod, eBook reader or PDA

Memoware- some categories include literature, (biography, horror, children, western...) reference, (education, computers, history..)

Mobipocket- Kindle


New Jersey State Library- new ebooks


The Online Books Page-"over 1 million free books on the web".

OnlineComputerBooks- just what the title says....free computer books

Online Free eBooks- mainly pdf downloads; nine categories

The Open Library- Kindle, Nook; one million titles


Page By Page Books

Planet eBook- free classic literature

Project Gutenberg- 15,00 titles, all in the public domain. Easy download text files written in ASCII; readable on all computers.

Penn State University's Electronic Classic Series Site- Kindle, Nook; pdf files Pixel of Ink- free and bargain Kindle books

World Public Library"the world’s largest eBook provider"mp3, pdf files; they have classic literature, graphic novels, audio books, children's literature and so much more"







BROADWAY SHOWS

BroadwayHD- free 7-day trial; $8.99/month after ($99.99/year)




MarqueeTV- known as "The Neflix of the Arts"; get 30 days free; $8.99/month after (First year $69.99)


PBS' Great Performances- full shows for Kinky Boots, The King and I, 42nd St., The Sound of Music, Much Ado About Nothing.






CONCERTS
Austin City Limits

Billboard's Live Streams & Virtual Concerts to watch- updated daily


Chamber Music Society- livestreams, concerts, lectures and master classes


ClassicFM- list of classical music organizations who have made their concert archive free for streaming; worldwide listing


Glamour- all artists offering free concerts online


The Guardian- 'Quarantine soirees' include operas and classical concerts


NPR-stream live concerts; classical included in this list


NPR Music: Tiny Desk Concerts-YouTube channel


Syracuse.com- Artists sharing live music


Vulture-all musicians streaming live concerts





HEALTH, FITNESS, WELL BEING
7 Online Fitness Classes to Stream- some have free trials

12 Meditation Apps for Better Sleep & Less Stress


13 Online Workouts-Amazon Prime $


21 Best Meditation Podcasts to Listen to in 2020


Daily Burn- free 30 day trial


Fitness Classes on YouTube


Meditation Classes on YouTube


Philly Fitness Studios Offering Online Classes via Facebook


Planet Fitness- free at-home workout classes


Studios Live-Streaming Fitness Classes- CBS News article


The Ultimate List of Free Meditation Resources


YMCA360- free on demand classes include Bootcamp, Barre, Yoga, Active Older Adults, Weightlifting, Tai Chi, YBox.


Yoga Classes on YouTube





FREE ONLINE CLASSES / VIRTUAL LEARNING
20 Biology Courses- Alison


77 Online Museums- from this very blog!


Coursera- audit classes for free


edX- 2500+ online courses from Harvard, M.I.T., Boston University, Berkeley UCal, Stanford; 140!


Photoshop Cafe- free tutorials


Photoshop Essentials


SkillShare- listing of free courses offered; categories included create and build.



VIRTUAL VIDEO COMMUNICATION TOOLS
Apple's Facetime- I'm sure that if you own an iPhone, you are familiar with 

Facetime; one call at a time.


Google Hangouts- add to Chrome browser

Skype- owned by Microsoft, you need to download software for Mac or PC

Webex- current upgraded basic plan

Zoom- Basic plan allows up to 100 participants and a 40 minute meeting; educators and schools do not have the 40 minute limit.

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