Stuck at home? Join the Quarantine Book Club and chat with an author!
https://www.quarantinebookclub.com/
Walk Around a National Park…Virtually
Stuck at home and want to explore somewhere? Don’t forget that with Google Maps you can “walk” round many @nationaltrust grounds.
Here’s an example with @DunhamMasseyNT showing how much of it Google Maps makes accessible.#SelfIsolation pic.twitter.com/sekh7zanxm
— Paul Duxbury (@PaulDuxbury) March 20, 2020
Learn How to Keep Productive
Learn some different productivity tips and tools from the Keep Productive YouTube channel
There’s different videos about a variety of productivity tools that you can use for your work as well as some interviews to see how other take notes and store them.
Learn How to Create Great Selfies
I’ve been following this YouTube channel by Kutovakika for a while and I love her fresh way of sharing wonderful ways to take photos using what you have around you in the house. She’s quite inspiring. Follow her channel for other photography inspiration.
Learn a New Craft in 5 Minutes
This YouTube site is one of my favourites. Great tips and hacks across a wide variety of topics.
Subscribe to get your daily fix of fresh ideas then spend 5 minutes doing it.
Explore Google Arts and Culture
Priya Chandra let me know of this wonderful site where you can lost within it for hours. Google has curated collections of Arts and Culture from historic events, behind the scenes museum and street tours, virtual 360 experience and so much more.
Delve in here…
Stay-at-home scavenger hunt
Are you on Twitter? Here’s how to play Jane McGonigal’s Stay-at-home scavenger hunt:
It’s the stay-at-home scavenger hunt! Here’s how to play: Everyday I’ll tweet one thing for you to find in your own home. Reply with a description or photo of your find! I’ll round up some prizes. Use #StayAtHomeHunt. RT this to invite others to play! The first challenge is: 1/3 pic.twitter.com/v5XzcHBPjr
— Jane McGonigal (@avantgame) March 16, 2020
Stay social online
Coronavirus: Ways to stay social online while in self-isolation
“Everyone should avoid non-essential contact with others to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the prime minister has said. As schools shut and some people work from home, many are feeling cut off from their everyday hobbies and social lives.
But the internet offers a means to stay connected and to keep us all entertained and educated through the days of isolation. Here are just some of the ways people are already using technology to lift their spirits.”
Read the full post on BBC News, 20 March 2020
How to avoid cabin fever
Self-isolation or cabin fever? What to do now that you’re always home
“While our abilities to go to work and participate in other activities outside the home are under restriction, initial discomfort may quickly result in “cabin fever.” At least, that’s something people say. But is cabin fever real? And if it is, can we lower it?”
Read the full post on The Mercury News, 19 March 2020
