TypingClub is the most effective way to learn how to type.
It is web based and highly effective. TypingClub is (and will always be) free for both individuals and schools. There is an optional paid school edition.
Keep practicing each lesson until you get all five stars. It really doesn’t take much to learn, a few minutes a day for one to two weeks and you will be a pro!
Go to TypingClub
Google Guide is an online interactive tutorial and reference for experienced users, novices, and everyone in between. I developed Google Guide because I wanted more information about Google’s capabilities, features, and services than I found on Google’s website. –Nancy Blachman
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The Getty Museum has used its Twitter account to challenge followers to recreate a work of art in their home and their picture(s) with them. Click the link below to see what has already been created.
We challenge you to recreate a work of art with objects (and people) in your home.
🥇 Choose your favorite artwork
🥈 Find three things lying around your house⠀
🥉 Recreate the artwork with those itemsAnd share with us. pic.twitter.com/9BNq35HY2V
— Getty (@GettyMuseum) March 25, 2020
WIRED’s Robbie Gonzalez learned to solve a Rubik’s cube from Tyson Mao, one of the co-founders of the World Cube Association. In two weeks, Robbie got his solve time down from 45 minutes with Tyson, to 20 minutes on his own, to under a minute on average. Learn his 8-step method here.
What happens if you get a blood transfusion with the wrong blood type? Even though a patient’s own blood type is the first choice for blood transfusions, it’s not always available at the blood bank. Try to save some patients’ lives and learn about human blood types! (You will need to use Adobe Flash to play this game)
I LOVE these short videos. There’s so many different types from how to tie your scarf, wearing your shirts in different ways and of course, tying your shoe laces. I’ve done a few of these new shoelace styles and they always draw a comment from people who look down and see my shoes. If you don’t have coloured or glitzy shoe laces, don’t worry. I use my normal white laces. They add a certain bit of frivolity to your shoe and of course, keeps your brain active from testing it because it goes against what you would normally do.
Start with this video but there’s a whole heap more online.
When I was in the Navy, I used to watch the sailors in the seamanship area create these wonderful pieces of rope work art such as the monkey fist and intricate mats. I went out and bought a book on knots and vowed that one day, I’ll devote some time to learn the craft. Well, the time never came and now, under forced isolation, I took out that book and flicked through it. Then I thought,. “I need to see a video on how these are created!”.
Start here with the Animated Knots website and check out Household Knots.
This week when I was cleaning out our games cupboard, I came across over a dozen different decks of cards that we had collecting dust. These cards were a blast from the past because they had companies that had long since gone out of business such as Pan Am and Australian Airlines. (The cynic in me also noted some Qantas cards in there but I do hope Qantas survives this corona virus shut down…I still have heaps of international travel in the future and that’s my airline of choice for travel).
I took out a deck and flashed up YouTube and taught myself a couple of solitaire games because many times, I just need to get off the phone and focus my attention elsewhere. A deck of cards is the perfect distraction.
Here’s an article on the 13 Best Single Player Card games and of course, there’s a multitude of YouTube shows teaching you the rules as well.
“Whether you are a classroom or homeschool teacher, a parent or caregiver now suddenly in the position of teaching at home, a student, or a lifelong learner, this is a challenging time. Art can be a powerful catalyst for building skills and understanding a range of subjects. Teaching and learning from home is something we can all explore together, so we wanted to share some resources from MoMA to get you started.”
Start from this article here then delve further into a variety of links. I would highly recommend the MoMA Learning Site too which has a multitude of excellent resources to learn all about art.
