Virtual Events/Resources List for Students/ALFA
Looking for something to do from the comfort of your home? Here's a few ideas to keep you entertained.
- My Bayut (Museums of Dubai)
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Paris Museum
- Metropolitan Opera streams
- National Parks Virtual Tour
- Disney Virtual Rides
- Virtual Field Trips
- Live Animal Streams
- Center for Puppetry Live Stream
- Virtual Buckingham Palace and other Historic Homes
- 300,000 Downloadable Books from the NYC Public Library
- Virtual Concerts to Watch
- NASA Digital Library
- Free Coloring Books from 113 Museums
- (Grand) Parent’s Guide to Google Classrooms
- 53 Virtual Activity Ideas
- Mutual Aid for Worcester
- List of Restaurants with Take-out
- Unemployment assistance
- Bartender Emergency Assistance Program
- College PenPal Program (must be college student to use)
- Online Cooking Club
- Free Audio Books
- Stay at Home - Online Music Festival and Events Calendar
- Astronauts Reading Stories from Space
- Costura Creative Living Room Reading Series - Join Costura artists for a virtual reading series
- The Social Distancing Festival
- Virtual Tour of the Great Wall of China
- Go to MARS - Take a tour of a 3D replica of the Martian surface recorded by the Curiosity rover
- The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Museum Resources, E-Learning, and Online Collections
- Free Lectures on a variety of topics - California State Chico
- Imagineering in a Box (Disney)
- Dancing Alone Together - Online classes, community building, and performance
- Code Academy - Learn how to do basic coding with free classes using Python, SQL, HTML, and many others
- Smithsonian Digital Volunteers - Help transcribe hundreds of digitized letters, diaries, notes, and files
- Library of Congress - Similar to the Smithsonian the LoC has a transcription service for volunteers (no registration needed)
- New York Public Library - The NYPL needs help transcribing menus from restaurants both modern and ancient