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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

                        Comments

                        Joe (Wicks?) is doing youtube PE lessons for kids from 9am each weekday. I’ve popped it over to you on Messenger – might help parents…

                        June on Mar 22, 2020

                        Wow! To discover this has always been available, I feel ashamed not to have visited sooner

                        Catherine pike on Mar 22, 2020

                        What a fantastic resource……particularly at a time like this!

                        STEVE SATHER on Mar 22, 2020

                        In my (now long) lifetime, I owe so much to Radio 4. In more recent years, the internet in particular the “open culture” website and then YouTube. If you download the free copy of RealPlayer, Save YouTube videos, and press then press key to them MP4 and MP3 files to play later. Yale University has put a lot of its lectures on YouTube. All we need now are open tutorials to discuss and consolidate what he have seen and heard.

                        Iain Toms on Mar 22, 2020

                        There is no reason to be bored for more than 8 minutes…

                        Pat Delzell on Mar 22, 2020

                        I think learn your English

                        Rith lee on Mar 22, 2020

                        Thankyou. A most thought out resource package for all ages.

                        Pamela Bevan on Mar 22, 2020

                        Can you include learning crafts on here?
                        Thanks

                        Gill on Mar 22, 2020

                        This is a brilliant idea thank you .

                        Ruth on Mar 22, 2020

                        Thank you so much for putting together this list

                        Alison.jones on Mar 22, 2020

                        What an amazing resource for every day not just in these times.

                        Carole on Mar 22, 2020

                        Wonderful!

                        Margaret Johnston on Mar 22, 2020

                        Thanks
                        What can folks do with Waters… showers, baths, drinking, soaking for better sleeping and rest?

                        Prof Jonathan Paul De Vierville on Mar 22, 2020

                        A great list. Thank you.

                        Rom on Mar 22, 2020

                        Sign me up, please.

                        Sheila Togias on Mar 22, 2020

                        I am so happy my friend sent me this website. I am interested in a lot of these classes, tours, concerts, etc. Thank you

                        Ramona Font on Mar 22, 2020

                        Thanks for such a great resource. It will certainly help beat the boredom of being stuck at home

                        Lizz warden on Mar 22, 2020

                        Thank you

                        Maryna on Mar 22, 2020

                        I am going to attend your on-line courses

                        Maryna on Mar 22, 2020

                        What a brilliant piece of work – thank you so much for sharing this with the world!

                        Dr Melanie Mackintosh on Mar 22, 2020

                        Never Ever, did I dream all this was available… A literal Goldmine!!

                        Robert on Mar 22, 2020

                        Thank you for this amazing resource, especially right now.

                        Angela Murray on Mar 22, 2020

                        LOVE IT!

                        sue on Mar 22, 2020

                        This looks amazing.

                        Sue Chatt on Mar 22, 2020

                        Great if your either living on your own and a helpful resource for everyone

                        Connie Breczko on Mar 22, 2020

                        I’m an ESL teacher who loves learning foreign languages.

                        Shahima Manan on Mar 22, 2020

                        I’m an ESL and very interested to learn different languages. I would like to sign up,
                        Thank you

                        Shahima Manan on Mar 22, 2020

                        Future learn is also a great learning resource, full of free short courses.

                        Summar on Mar 22, 2020

                        I must come back to this informative post. From the bit I did read it will help a lot of people including me.

                        Anne Follent on Mar 22, 2020

                        This looks super! Such a huge list! Thanks for compiling!

                        Ardith Noble on Mar 22, 2020

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