Last updated on 15 February 2025
How can we change our minds during this new school holiday? How to occupy the days during the holidays?
Here is a selection of sites and services presented on Tice Tools. I hope they will help you change your mind during this troubled time. Good digital escape and good vacation.
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Gallica. The thousand treasures of the National Library of France
Gallica the BNF Digital Library In the end, it has only one major flaw: its incredible wealth. Several million documents available for free download: books, manuscripts, maps and plans, prints, photographs, posters, … magazines
My Louvre collections. All works exhibited at the Louvre and some of those in the reserves
We miss art and culture. The Louvre, like most major museums, remains closed due to the pandemic. An additional reason to rush to a brand new virtual space put online by the big national museum: The collections of the Louvre.
The Petit Louvre. Discover the great Parisian museum at child’s height
The Petit Louvre is a site and an application that puts the Louvre Museum at the height of children. A great idea and a beautiful achievement that leaves a little taste of unfinished but remains a great resource to arouse the artistic curiosity of the youngest.
Virtual tours in the world's largest museums
Here is a new selection of great museums to visit from home. We cross the borders of old Europe to make a leap into ten major world museums. Some are well known, others perhaps a little less so. Follow the guide.
Admire in high definition the museums of the city of Paris
Paris Museums has just opened a platform bringing together and presenting all the works and collections of the thirteen museums of the city of Paris. Beautiful work. If some are still looking for the benefits of new technologies and the Internet for the culture and knowledge available to all, I advise them to visit this site.
Do you know the largest online museum in the world?
Europeana is an awake dream for all art lovers. Imagine rather this site will allow you by pushing the door of a click to access a huge and grandiose collection of more than 53 million works of art, objects, books, videos and sounds. All available online for free from your computer. It's all happiness.
Millions of open access works of art
"Dissemination of knowledge" is the mission that is claimed the Smithsonian Institution, the largest complex of museums and research centres in the world. Founded in 1846, The Smithsonian brings together no less than 19 museums and 9 research centers in Washington. The venerable institution has just put online and in the public domain more than 2.8 million high-resolution images from its extensive collections.
Cyrano. Recordings of large plays of the repertoire to be tasted from his sofa
While waiting to be able to return to the rooms, let us welcome the initiative of Théâtral Magazine. The Théâtral Magazine team has designed a theatre video platform for teachers: Cyrano.
1100 classic films of the world cinema to watch for free online
The portal Open Culture offers you 1,150 films online. The collection includes classics, independent films, black films, documentaries and other films, with a host of great actors, actresses and directors. Attention not all are subtitled.
A very complete list of e-books to download for free
And if you catch up in reading. How to get ebooks to download for free for your e-reader or computer? I offer you a complete list of books to download and read for free .
Thousands of audiobooks to download or listen to online
Overview of all sites offering audiobooks or audiobooks to listen to for free. They are classified into two main categories. A first category lists sites offering free audiobooks for children and young people. In the second category, you will find free audiobooks or radio soap operas for all audiences.
A free studio to create comics
The Bibliothèque Nationale de France also offers a free site and service: the BDnF – The BD Factory. It is a completely free creative studio that makes it possible to produce comics or any other multimedia story combining illustrations and text. You'll love it and so will your students.
Free sites to draw or paint online
How to make your computer or tablet screen a drawing book or even better a painting canvas? There are many online resources that allow students to engage in creative activities such as drawing or painting. Here are three you may not know.
5 sites to create online mandalas
How easily create an online mandala so that it can then be printed and coloured? The web is full of sites offering mandalas to download.
Thousands of free coloring pages to print
This initiative, launched for the first time in 2016 by the New York Academy of Medicine, invites lovers of art and free colouring from around the world to download thousands of black and white artworks, coloring drawings, from dozens of museums and libraries around the world.
Children's tales in video, fables, legends …
TV5 Monde the great public channel of the Francophonie spoils us with Dozens of audio and video creations for a young audience. Small multimedia formats of short duration beautifully made.
5 geographic gaming sites to have fun with maps
The development of the online mapping In particular, Google Maps has enabled countless sites to easily integrate maps into their sites. The ability to zoom in on any point on the planet has also inspired game creators. The proof with these five sites that offer you the Geographical Games unimaginable until a short time ago.
Create crosswords online
How Create crosswords? This is much simpler than it seems thanks to one of the many crossword generators found on the net. A good way to create a fun activity to play with words.
This is enough to keep your days busy and perhaps inspire you for activities until the end of the school year. Feel free to add comments to the list. Good digital escape.
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