Studying at Home

How to Spend Your Time During Self-isolation

All of you know about the situation with coronavirus and self-isolation. If you have no idea how to spend your time during quarantine, we have suggestions for you. There are many different galleries and museums in Russia, and we just want to remind you that nowadays you can visit any exhibition and get any information about pieces of art presented there without leaving your room. Some famous museums such as The State Tretyakov gallery and Red October Gallery have organised virtual tours for you. Online projects will allow you to visit world famous museums at any time.

To go on virtual tours, first of all you need the most suitable device to visit the official site of the chosen gallery and then click on the section called ‘Virtual Tours’. Or you can do it in a slightly different way. To make your research easier, we have made a small list of sites that can be interesting for you.

  1. Google art project. http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/u/0/project/art-project

Online virtual tours are organized in this way: you only have to click your mouse to move and turn. It looks so realistic that it feels as if you are walking there in real life.

  1. Gallerix.

http://gallerix.ru/

This one will allow you to see famous works of foreign or russian artists.

  1. museums online

http://musei-online.blogspot.com/

This online project offers you to visit world famous museums

If you are not interested in exploring exhibitions this way, we can suggest some more methods of doing this. For example you can choose a museum, or an exhibition and learn some information about its history, biography of the artist who organized it, history of the place where exhibits are presented etc.

By Anna Masalova

Two Advantages of Studying at Home

The current situation does not allow your children to go to school like they normally would, so in order to still get education we provide online classes which will be followed by the students. Below are some advantages of studying online to not keep them bored during quarantine times ;)


Convenience and flexibility

During the online classes students have more time to plan out when to do their homework. This gives them more flexibility and makes more time for other activities like spending time with parents for example. Also, since everything is online more time is available discarding the trips to classes and lockers.


Better concentration

Because now there is less physical contact with other students your children are going to be more concentrated on their work and not let them be distracted from various things happening in a normal classroom in school. This means that they will get more work done without losing as much energy and interest.


By Alexey Gretchman

Health During Quarantine

What can we do to stay healthy and not be bored while we are in quarantine?

Nowadays we don't go to school, which is so fascinating. But, without any activities, we will not be okay. Do we want to stop losing our important time on some useless things? NO. So, what can we do to make our time more useful? First, you can read some captivating adventure stories or encyclopedias. Second, you can spend your time on some creativity. For example, you can draw some beautiful drawings, but if you don’t like drawing you can do something that is close to you because you are the ruler of your time.

And finally, try to spend your time with parents because usually you are at school and your parents are at work, so, you spend just a bit of your time with your parents. Because your parents are at home, you should spend more time with them.

In conclusion, I want you to understand that you need to stay at home and spend your time more usefully.

By David Gorodetsky

How to Improve Your Online Education Experience

You’re probably already fed up with these tedious online lessons and find them no better than actually going to school, and for some- online lessons are even more of a struggle. If so, take a minute and read this comprehensive guide to make the process a bit more enjoyable.

Firstly, you gotta admit, for the most part- some of our time management skills are… not good, which is part of the suffering. You have to be on time to not get your butt kicked by teachers and not fall behind. One way to become a bit more organized is to use alarms to your favor- set an alarm five or ten minutes before the lesson begins to not forget and have time to prepare. Actually being committed to your work and keeping up with, or even being ahead, of your classmates is always beneficial- get rid of your responsibilities prior to having fun. This will save you from loads of trouble, trust me.

Secondly, learning should be interesting. To stay engaged during a lesson, communicate with your classmates and teacher- share your ideas, propose new ones and keep the overall mood positive. Humor is almost always relevant- just don’t overdo it. A recently conducted psychological study, conducted by the largest German private healthcare corporation Asklepios, has shown that humor helps any audience absorb 25% more of the information mentioned in any speech or text.

To conclude, manage your time and stay engaged during lessons. These are the tips that have helped me the most to improve my overall experience with online learning.

By Michael Anisimov

How to Study Online

Hello everyone!

I think you all know that you won’t go to school for some time. Unfortunately those aren’t holidays and you will still learn during these days. This is what you do so you can have fun during this time:

DO:

+ Turn off your microphone when you aren't speaking

+ Have a good mood

DONT:

- Be late

- Skip your lesson

- Sleep during your lesson

- Eat, even if it's your favorite meal

By Tim Zhevlakov