e-Ideas of the Week
Mobile Apps of the Week
Leap Fitness Group
Are you having trouble finding ways to workout at home? Keeping discipline can be hard while you're stuck in your bubble with little to no equipment.
Luckily, the Leap Fitness Group is here to help with loads of free exercise apps. Choose the app that is right for you - there's heaps to choose from! - and customise the app to your goals and level of expertise. The app will remind you that you need to move and has easy to follow animations to make sure you're doing it right. Check it out today and get active!
NZSL - New Zealand Sign Language Dictionary
Did you know that New Zealand's third official language after English and Māori is NZSL? Normally the first week of May is NZSL week but due to current circumstances, it’s been postponed to September this year.
But it sure didn’t stop Jody from library learning some sign, using this app. She said, “I love how simple these are! App and website both have a 'sign' of the day which is easy to keep up with!"
Podcasts of the Week
History of Aotearoa New Zealand
The History of Aotearoa New Zealand Podcast is a chronological and narrative telling of the history of New Zealand, starting from before humans arrived, eventually ending in the year 2000.
Each episode we tell the story of our island nation in an interesting and informative way! Learn more about what made Aotearoa what is today from the first settlement by Tangata Whenua, The Treaty of Waitangi, The Land Wars, The King Movement, WWII and a whole host of other topics! Recommended to listen in order as that way will give you a fuller and deeper understanding of what Thomas talks about in later episodes.
Broken Record
For generations of music lovers, the liner notes on albums were a central part of the way music was heard. You bought an album and it came with an accompanying narrative: a digression, an aside, a backstory—maybe even an invented history. We intuitively understood that great music required not just listening but conversation between the artist and the audience and the audience and the rest of the world.
Broken Record is a podcast that restarts those conversations—in a world without liner notes—for a new audience of music lovers.
Broken Record is hosted by Justin Richmond with interviews by the producer Rick Rubin, the writer Malcolm Gladwell, and the former New York Times editor Bruce Headlam.
Websites of the Week
Cooking the Past
Food with a story to tell - Calling on oral and public historians throughout the world to share a food memory and a recipe to document & provide comfort during these COVID-19 times.