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Hello everyone!

I just wanted to say THANK YOU for all of your messages, emails, and comments. It means the world to me to know how many people from all over the world are benefitting from this resource list.

ChatterPack is run on a voluntary basis in my *spare* (!) time to help share information and resources to those who need it. Have fun, explore the world from the safety of your home, and please stay safe.

Huge love to you all.

Claire Ryan 

P.s. You can find my book, ADHD and Me - a guide for children and young people, at the end of this list - please do share the link with others who might be interested, and/or get in touch if you have any questions :) 

 Alternative lists of free resources including support, advice, and information for families. Please do share the links for these with others/family/friends

    1. School closures: Resources, information, and activities for families to support Home Learning
    2. Support, advice, and resources for families of children with: speech, language, and communication needs & special educational needs and disabilities
Notices

        Virtual tours, and live webcams

        • Future Learn - Explore the architecture and history of Rome, walking around a 3D digital model of the ancient city, with this free online course.
            Museums and galleries

              Animals

              Explore the oceans (underwater cameras)

                • Aquarium – Otters, sea lions, pirana, jellyfish, and many others. 

                Birds

                  Online learning

                  • Open Culture - learn 48 different languages online - FREE
                  • University of Alabama - Free online archaeology and Egyptology Uni courses (create an account to log on)
                  • Open Learn - Free, online courses, Open university 
                  • Future Learn - Free, online courses including languages, health, coding, wellbeing, creative arts, etc. 
                  • Royal institute - Christmas lectures. A series of lectures presenting scientific subjects to a general audience in an entertaining manner.
                  • iDEA - An international programme that helps you develop/demonstrate your digital, enterprise and employability skills for free
                  • U3A - Online courses for mature students
                  • Blocky games - Games to help beginners learn computer programming skills
                  • Scratch - Beginners computer programming games/projects
                  • T.K.S.S.T - Smart videos for curious minds of all ages

                  Geography, nature, and history

                  • Tutorful - Top Geography websites, YouTube videos, and resources 
                  • Project Noah – Global site where you can view and share wildlife
                  • Seterra - Free world geography, online quizzes 
                  • UK parliament  - Politics, history, citizenship, etc. Written for children and young people, but lots of very interesting information, including how laws are made. 

                   Music 

                  *Check the location/time zones of live-streamed concerts to calculate the UK start time. Time Zone calculator

                  • Free Opera  - Dates confirmed until the end of March. Check the website via the link for future dates to be added

                  Arts and culture

                  • Parlia - The encyclopedia of opinion - mapping the worlds thinking
                  • Walter's Museum - houses the highest artistic achievements from nearly every corner of the world. View some of the past, present, and future exhibitions
                  • Teaching history - 100 objects from museums across the UK with resources, information and teaching ideas to inspire your students’ interest in history
                  • Black history - Telling the story of the black British experience

                   Literature online

                  • Gutenburg - Download free books, e.g. Shakespear, Edgar Allen Poe, Frankenstein, etc. 
                  • Listening books.org - For people with Parkinson's Disease, visual impairment, fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, mental health difficulty or learning difficulty such as Dyslexia, which impacts the ability to read or hold a book
                  • Solomon Kingsnorth - Books in PDF, Word and audiobook format - Alice in Wonderland / Wind in the Willows / The Railway Children / The Jungle Book / Peter Pan / Black Beauty
                  • Audible - Free for this period - Available in 6 languages

                  Learn a new skill or develop a current one!

                  • A tutorial resource guide to photography and editing - Adobe
                  • Tai-Chi - the moves and the method - BrightEducation
                  • Craft projects - Sew, Knit, Crotchet, quilt, and fun for the family too!

                  Miscellaneous & entertainment

                  • BBC Sport - Shares the greatest sporting moments
                  • Radio 4 - Comedy podcast, 'Now Wash Your Hands' featuring guest comedians
                  • Zooniverse - Digital volunteering opportunities 
                  • Life Story Hub - Inspiring creative communication with the young and old using the arts
                  • Expeditions App- Free virtual Reality Augmentation app for all ages, to take virtual trips around the world to hundreds of destinations.
                  • Roll20 - Build your own game - or play games with others online
                  • Latest free stuff - UK site (if you are outside of the UK, google 'latest free stuff' and add your location)
                  • Staying Put: A guide to planning for, arranging and funding care in your own home in old age including how new technology can help improve your lifestyle (£2.99)

                  Anxiety/Mental health/loneliness

                  • WeMeditate - Live streamed, guided meditation sessions
                  • Get Sober - Free, online support for anyone struggling with alcohol addiction and staying sober during this period

                  Image with ideas to help with wellbeing - things I can and cannot control

                  CBT image about managing emotions

                  Board split into sections with activity ideas to cope with isolation

                  Prayer resources

                  *Check the location/time zones of live-streamed masses to calculate the UK start time. Time Zone calculator

                    ADHD and Me, by Claire Ryan, ChatterPack. Find out More

                    A handbook designed to help children and young people figure out what ADHD means to them as a unique individual.

                    Written in an ADHD-friendly format, the book includes tips and strategies to help children, young people and the adults in their lives to better understand their ADHD.

                    ADHD and Me is now available as a digital download! Find out more

                      Alternative lists of free resources, support, advice, and information for families - please do share the links for these with others/family/friends

                        Written by ChatterPack

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                        Edward Carolan on Mar 22, 2020

                        What a fabulous list!
                        Here is ours for theatre and entertainment, maybe you could add it to your list?
                        https://www.londontheatre1.com/theatre-news/watch-theatre-online-or-at-home-musicals-plays-drama-opera-ballet/

                        Neil Cheesman on Mar 22, 2020

                        Wow so many amazing things to see and learn. What a great job to get this all organised 😊

                        June on Mar 22, 2020

                        I would like to be included in your updates please.

                        Hilary Anthony on Mar 22, 2020

                        Hey can you help by adding our Virtual Holiday Program to your list?
                        https://www.kidsunlimited.com.au/virtual-holiday-program.html

                        David on Mar 22, 2020

                        Wow I didn’t know how much could actually be accessed.

                        rosemary jones on Mar 22, 2020

                        Good idea I’ve shared this with friends

                        Tracy holt on Mar 22, 2020

                        Charades!!

                        Wendy cushing on Mar 22, 2020

                        Our guides are with us

                        Robert Novak on Mar 22, 2020

                        Thank so so much for this information!it will help a lot

                        Roger on Mar 22, 2020

                        Great site

                        Joyce M. Thomas on Mar 22, 2020

                        Thank you so much for this! It is the most comprehensive listing I have seen.

                        Deborah Watt on Mar 22, 2020

                        This is brilliant. Thank you x

                        Jennifer Jones on Mar 22, 2020

                        What an inspiration your site is for all. Thank you!

                        Nancy Reed on Mar 22, 2020

                        Thanks for sharing this

                        Kimberly on Mar 22, 2020

                        Well done, thankfully I don’t need your assistence but for many you are a lifeline……

                        Miriam King on Mar 22, 2020

                        This is a fabulous site and it’s existence should be passed around on the internet for all of us to enjoy.

                        Marilyn on Mar 22, 2020

                        Exceedingly interesting & useful site.

                        Roz Page on Mar 22, 2020

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                        Roz Page on Mar 22, 2020

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                        Peggy class on Mar 22, 2020

                        Hi. I thought you might be interested in this creative online jam I set up. It’s an online event that encourages children, and anyone else who wants to get involved, to create something inspired by an amazing object or work of art you’ve found in an online museum or gallery. That’s your treasure! I created it because I realise a lot of parents, child minders, etc are going to be under pressure to keep their children entertained over the foreseeable weeks (it was inspired by a discussion on the Museums Computer Group mailing list), so I hope this helps take some of that pressure off.

                        Make whatever you want to inspired by your museum object or work of art – a game, story, poetry, art, music, film, picture, or even a cat dressed up as Boudica, or a knitted velociraptor dinosaur, and upload them. If you can’t upload your creation (eg because it’s not physically possible to upload a 3D printed model of Mary Seacole, or a Victoria sponge cake in the shape of Queen Victoria), you can upload images, videos and text to the Treasure Jam page instead to show us what you’ve created.

                        Full details and resources here: https://itch.io/jam/treasure-jam

                        Ash Green on Mar 22, 2020

                        This is an amazing list! Thank you!

                        Wendy craig on Mar 22, 2020

                        Anyone that has young ones, feel free to join my free show Monday to Friday 11AM EST on Instagram TV. Follow me at @musicwithdrew.
                        Trying to bring free entertainment to as many kiddos as possible.

                        Drew on Mar 22, 2020

                        This is a fabulous collection of free online learning opportunities, I can’t wait to get stuck in and share it with my friends and family.
                        Thank you

                        Marie-Clare Kenyon on Mar 22, 2020

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