District Guide: Handsworth Secondary School: Arts

General Resources

Access Learning
Username: Free
Password: 2020
From Site: Access to over 4,500 full length and 20,000 clip level educational video programs.-The platform seems a bit older, but it has a lot of resources for Careers, English, Social Studies, Fine Arts, Math, and Science.
Audible
Audible has made a selection of it's audio books available as well. Some of the novels we teach can be found here.

BC Digital Classroom
BC Digital Classroom provides students with access to academic search engines. The directions for access and home use passwords can be found in the above document

CBC Curio
CBC has made CBC Curio free for people to use. This is a great resource with a lot of streaming resources for classes. It includes archival content, documentaries, and audio content. There is also access to Shakespearean plays from Stratford Festival.
CBC Curio Curriculum
Within the CBC Curio program there are also resources organized by BC course. For all subject areas of our curriculum!
Criterion on Demand
Criterion on Demand is a streaming service that provides access to movies the users (students and teachers) can view from home until June 30th. The User name is: 91018 Password: Nvan 44. There are a lot of the novels/plays we teach available here.

COD- movie list
This is a list of all of the movies available for teachers to use on Criterion on Demand with their students.

National Film Board of Canada
From here students and teachers can stream a lot of Canadian-made content on all sorts of topics.
TEDTalks
I will create a box for sharing Tedtalks you think are great below.
Wide Open School
This online learning platform includes American resources for almost every subject area. It also includes access (via clicking on a subject tile) to PBS, National Geographic, PBS Learning, and Newsela.

#CanadaPerforms
This link takes you to performances by Canadian musicians, singers, authors, actors, and comedians in English and French.
The Met Opera
The Met is streaming Operas nightly.
NAC Orchestra
The NAC Orchestra will be sharing music every Wednesday at 8pm.
National Theatre
The National Theatre is posting a play every 7 days for people to watch
NPR Music
Live streaming and virtual concerts- 24 hour programming
The Shows must go on- Andrew LLoyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber's site. He is streaming one of his productions every few days from his youtube channel.

12 more museums and American National Parks offering Virtual Tours
This site provides more virtual tours of museums and galleries like MOMA, Guggenheim, and the Smithsonian.It also provides tours of American National Parks like Yellowstone National Park for example.
12 Museums providing virtual tours
This article provides information and access to 12 different museums providing virtual tours.
The Louvre-Virtual Tour
The MET 360 Project
This award-winning series of six short videos invites viewers around the world to virtually visit The Met's art and architecture in a fresh, immersive way. Created using spherical 360° technology, it allows viewers to explore some of the Museum's iconic spaces as never before.
National Museum of Music-Virtual Tour
This simple website provides a lot of information and images about different musical instruments.