🛠 Conferencing & Livestreaming:

• Zoom (Tutorials, Abuse Info, 🔒, 💭)
• Jitsi Meet (Guide,🔒)
• Whereby
• BigBlueButton
• Jami
• Nextcloud Talk
• Discord
• Mumble (audio conferencing)
• Zangi (low data usage)

• Floatplane
• Side Door
• Stageit
• StreamYard

🖌 Visual Art & Crafts:

• Submit your COVID-19 art to a digital exhibit or magazine.
• Join a local virtual Art Club or Sketch Club.
• Draw together virtually with AWW App or Scribble.
• And brush up on your sketching skills with Bateman.
• Make your window a canvas to join the Stay Art Home project.
• Got crayons? Print out a colouring book or these pages.
• Send notes to neighbours as paper airplanes or origami.
• Or, take an art field trip across Canada.

✏️ Writing & Brainstorming:

• Brainstorm together visually with Kinopioor Coggle.
• Organize your personal thoughts offline with TiddlyWiki.
• Write together in real-time with Etherpad or Riseup.
• Send a Letter-in-a-Bottle to someone locally or abroad.
• Keep a private, offline digital diary with JournalBook.
• Share ideas remotely as a team using Coda, Miro or Notion.
• Or for a full package of collaboration tools, try CHATONS.

🎹 Music, Performance, & Video:

• Play live music together with JamKazam or JamTaba.
• Take online locally-based African drumming lessons.
• Send musical notes/drawings with Typatone or turtle.
• Learn to create audio stories to share your experiences.
• GVPL has numerous free movie and music streaming services.
• Watch online videos & listen to music together with Metastream, &chill, or watch2gether.

👾 Creative Coding & Games:

• Code creative projects and games together with Glitch.
• Try to solve coronavirus puzzles for science with FoldIt.
• Make the web fun again by creating a Neocities site.
• Or build and explore the p2p web with Beaker.
• Embark on a Super Pixel Quest to inspire your own pixel art.
• Design and build 3D games for free with Godot (🎓).
• Make collaborative live-coded music with Fragment.
• Play board games together via BGA, Happy Meeple, or Tabletopia (+).
• Start your own small social network with your friends.
• Become Ambassador of the Internet for two weeks.
• Or, try Top 10 Games You Can Play in Your Head, By Yourself

🌳 Ecology, Farming, & Gardening:

• Stuck inside? You can still explore nature.
• Learn how to become an indoor birder.
• And download a free bird ID app to help with identification.
• Have a lonely plant? Find a companion for it with PlantBuddies.
• Design your own dream garden virtually with Gardena.
• Comfortable with coding? Explore this global plants API.
• You may also find drag-and-drop farming interesting.

🍳 Cooking:

• Inexperienced or intimidated by cooking? Learn the basics.
• Not sure what to make with an ingredient? Try these pairings.
• For more recipe ideas, take a look at this Open Source Cookbook (pdf).
• Or, learn how to truly make food from scratch using Recursive Recipes.

🎓 Digital Learning:

• Explore GVPL's incredible Digital Collections.
• Engage with the Royal BC Museum from home.
• Browse a huge list of remote learning solutions here.
• By the way, how are you reading this page?

🎈 For Kids & Parents:

• Try these home activity ideas from the YMCA.
• Or Physical Literacy Games for Ages 5 & Under (pdf).
• 200 [email protected] Offline Activities (pdf)

• Take learning offline with Kolibri & Worldreader.
• Global Digital Library (picture books)
• Storyweaver (read-along, learning for kids)
• Akelius (playful language learning for kids)
• Authors & Illustrators Share Resources for Learning Anywhere

• Engage with the Royal BC Museum from home.
• And other institutions across BC.
• Enroll your kids in local virtual painting classes at Paint Box.
• Or an e-reading book club with Victoria Literacy Connection.
• Join or organize a driving parade.

• Teach kids about the birds in their backyard with Audubon.
• Or learn about nature and make art with Bateman.
• Explore Power To Be's digital programs, activities, and resources.

• Create stories, animation, & games together with Scratch.
• Teach kids computing offline with CS Unplugged.
• Try these space-themed STEM activities from NASA.
• Have big questions? Why not Skype a Scientist?