Remote Working Guide & Resources

5 min readNov 12, 2020

If you only have a short time, just watch these videos. The rest is a partly sorted — long list.

Recent addition: How to run a remote party (surprising amount of things can apply to your remote meetings) https://tedcooke.blog/2020/04/13/21-things-we-learned-from-hosting-our-first-online-party/

Some Cats to keep you company working from home.

Remote work and culture

Facilitation and Consulting

Remote design and testing

Some duplication from the above sections.

Another very big list from the Git Lab people: https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/resources/

VIRTUAL EXCURSIONS

To places like zoos, The Lourve, The Great Wall of China, farms and some cute animals.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/19-immersive-museum-exhibits-you-can-visit-from-your-couch

https://www.thechinaguide.com/destination/great-wall-of-china

https://www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne

The San Diego Zoo has a website just for kids with amazing videos, activities, and games. Enjoy the tour! https://kids.sandiegozoo.org/

Tour Yellowstone National Park!

https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/photosmultimedia/virtualtours.htm

Explore the surface of Mars on the Curiosity Rover.

https://accessmars.withgoogle.com/

This Canadian site FarmFood 360 offers 11 Virtual Tours of farms from minks, pigs, and cows, to apples and eggs. https://www.farmfood360.ca/

Indoor Activities for busy toddlers

https://busytoddler.com/2020/03/indoor-activities/?fbclid=IwAR3tYXAqw7tJRAzLExpPcJo4rApLsKtgL0AwghzxgnhwOajc4auX6o12_xw

Play games and learn all about animals

https://switchzoo.com/

Math and Reading games https://www.funbrain.com/

This iconic museum located in the heart of London allows virtual visitors to tour the Great Court and discover the ancient Rosetta Stone and Egyptian mummies. https://britishmuseum.withgoogle.com/

300,000+ FREE printable worksheets from toddlers to teens https://www.123homeschool4me.com/home-school-free-printables/

Geography and animals

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/

Fave kids books read by famous people https://www.storylineonline.net/

Crafts, activities, mazes, dot to dot, etc, https://www.allkidsnetwork.com/

Fun games, recipes, crafts, activities https://www.highlightskids.com/

Online history classes for all ages preteen through adults https://school.bighistoryproject.com/bhplive

Educational games K-12 https://www.breakoutedu.com/funathome

Digital archive of history https://www.bunkhistory.org/

Daily free science or cooking experiment to do at home.http://www.clubscikidzmd.com/blog/

35,000 pages of online content on the cultures and countries of the world. https://www.countryreports.org/

Free Weeks of Maker Stations to keep your children creating at home! Each challenge includes simple instructions using materials around the house, QR code video resources, and a student recording sheet. bit.ly/freemakerstations

Interactive video earth science based curriculum supplement. https://www.everyday-earth.com/

Poetry and music https://www.thewell.world/mindful-music/mindful-poetry-moments

Illustrated recipes designed to help kids age 2–12 cook with their grown-ups. Recipes encourage culinary skills, literacy, math, and science. https://www.nomsterchef.com/nomster-recipe-library

National Geographic Young Explorers is a magazine designed specifically for kindergarten and first grade students. Children can listen to the magazine being read to them as they follow along with the highlighted text. https://ngexplorer.cengage.com/ngyoungexplorer/index.html

An interactive way to learn history

https://www.mission-us.org/

Allows students to type in any city, state, or country to view an archive of historical photographs and other documents. It’s a unique way to help them learn about history.

http://www.whatwasthere.com/

A human visualization platform that allows students to explore the human body in really cool ways. https://human.biodigital.com/login?returnUrl=%2Fdashboard

Helps kids learn to appreciate the arts by providing them with the opportunity to play games, conduct investigations, and explore different forms of art. https://artsology.com/

No need to travel to one of the Smithsonian’s zoos or museums — this website brings your child everything from live video of the National Zoo to the Smithsonian Learning Lab right to their screen https://www.si.edu/kids

This NASA initiative covers a wide range of topics including weather, climate, atmosphere, water, energy, plants, and animals. https://climatekids.nasa.gov/

Kids Think Design explores careers in fashion design, graphic design, interior design, book design, product design, film and theatre, architecture, animation, and environmental design. http://www.kidsthinkdesign.org/

Innerbody explores the 11 bodily systems in depth. With interactive models and detailed explanations, this website will help them learn more about the internal mechanics of the amazing human body.https://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html

Watch Opera

https://www.metopera.org/

MENTAL HEALTH

Movement and mindfulness videos created by child development experts. https://www.gonoodle.com/

Kid-friendly workouts — choose from Strength for Kids, Agility for Kids, Flexibility and Balance for Kids, Warm-p for Kids, Cooldown for Kids, Stand Up and Move for Kids, OR create your own custom kid workout. https://app.sworkit.com/collections/kids-workouts

At home OT, PT, and ST resources designed to build skills in children through movement and play. https://www.theottoolbox.com/

EDUCATIONAL SHOWS

This is a Netflix US list but many will be available here.

https://homeschoolhideout.com/educational-shows-on-netflix/

12 MUSEUMS AROUND THE WORLD YOU CAN VISIT VIRTUALLY

https://www.travelandleisure.com/…/museums-with-virtual-tou…

THIS GUY IS RUNNING A YOUTUBE CHANNEL TEACHING KIDS DRAWING.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmzjCPQv3y8&feature=youtu.be

https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/mo-willems/

ENGINEERING ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS.

https://docs.google.com/…/1oCM2Ue9w32EUIGfRXsjw…/mobilebasic

SCHOOLASTIC ACTIVITIES