Looking for more films to shed light on these days (and nights)? Criterion, which brings together classic, world, and other important films, is also providing free streaming access to films by and about the Black experience, including the collection, Pioneers of African American Cinema. Browse at CriterionChannel.com.
Category: Learning at Home
Film – Black Stories to Inform & Empower
Cineplex has curated a collection of films that tell Black stories. This collection is intended to “elevate Black stories, artists and filmmakers and spark discussion”. At the Cineplex site you can view these films for free. So grab some popcorn and prepare to be challenged, entertained, and educated.
Magazines?
If you like flipping through magazines, you can now access loads of them, for free, through Flipster. It’s the same password as for World Book and Britannica. Or email me for it. Find the link another time under Reading – Free Audio & eBooks.
Databases
If you need a reminder on logging into, and using Gale or Ebsco, check out these (short) videos. For passwords, email me (address above). EBSCO GALE
Online Databases Help
Are you needing to use the online databases – Gale, Ebsco, Britannica, or World Book? All of these require login information. While I can’t share them with you here, you can email me or ask your teachers. I’ve made sure all of them have access to this information. What about using them? The encyclopedias are pretty straight-forward. But there’s more to Gale and Ebsco. So I’ve created short video tutorials Read More …
Stratford Festival presents…
… streaming at home now (for free), the Stratford Festival production of King Lear. Watch it until May 14. Starting on Thursday, Coriolanus.
Knitting Club
Is anyone looking for something new to try? Or maybe to try again or learn more about? How about knitting? If you can dig up a pair of needles and some yarn … (ask around your family members, who knows what might be hiding somewhere in a closet). Knitting is easier than you would think. There are 2 stitches to learn and with those, you can do anything. And there Read More …
Web Comics
If your preferred ‘reading for relaxation’ material is graphic, there are loads of online options. Check out these below. Several of these might be familiar from our library – you can follow along with the writers and artists as they go. As Per Usual – Demi Lee Bird and Moon: science and nature cartoons – Rosemary Mosco Check, Please! – Ngozi Ukazu Chesire Crossing – Andy Weir and Sarah Andersen Read More …
Audio Books
I love reading. But I also love other things (knitting, anyone? or baking or walking or ???). The best thing is to combine the two. And all I need is my phone and some earbuds. I download a book and off I go. I must confess that I tend to listen to fluff – it’s hard to concentrate on the other thing I’m doing if I’m having to concentrate on Read More …
Armchair Travel
The Radcliffe Camera, Bodleian Library, Oxford If you were like me, your travel was greatly curtailed during Spring Break. While I didn’t have a big trip planned, I hoped to visit a few places around here – Fibres West (a festival for all things fibre – and as a Knitter, I am a fibre fiend) in Langley, Granville Island, … downtown Vancouver. Just days out. But it didn’t happen. The Read More …