Kids eResources

Creativebug provides on demand arts and crafts instructional videos on drawing, painting, sewing, knitting, crochet, quilting, baking, and more! All classes are taught by experts, with new classes added daily.

Find out how to get started with the Creativebug User Guide.

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Stream and download millions of songs. Explore over 20 million songs across more than 200 genres with
Freegal Music+® – completely ad-free and available anytime! Stream your favorite music instantly or download songs to listen offline and build a timeless music collection.

From today’s chart-toppers and timeless legends of pop, rock, jazz, classical, country, K-Pop to captivating soundtracks, children’s songs and so much more - the world of Freegal Music+ has something for everyone.

With expertly curated playlists and personalized recommendations, you'll find the perfect soundtrack for every moment and every mood. Simply log in with your 14-digit physical library card or online card number. and start listening right away, in your browser or through the free mobile app for Apple device or Android device.

Streaming and Downloading Music

On a mobile device:

• Tap an album or song to start listening.
• Download a song by tapping the three dots on the right hand of the song, then tap Download Song.
• View your downloaded songs or to download a song again by tapping the My Music icon at the bottom of the screen.

On a computer:

• Listen to albums or songs online by hovering over the cover image and selecting the Play button.
• Download a song by clicking the download button (down arrow) on the right side of the song.
• View your downloaded songs or download a song again by clicking the My Music icon on the left side of the page.

Freegal Music+® App on a Smartphone or Tablet

• In the Google Play or Apple App Store, search for Freegal Music.
• Install and open the app.
• You may choose to allow the app to know your location.
• If you don’t, fill in a postal code, city, or country in the next box.
• Choose Georgina Public Library from the list.
• Type in your 14-digit library card number and your PIN, and tap Log In.

Searching or Browsing

The Home page will show you interesting songs, albums, artists, and playlists.

• Select the links on the Home page to explore Freegal by trends, new arrivals, playlists, or artists.
• Select the Genres link in the navigation menu to browse by category.
• Tap the search icon at the bottom of the screen on to browse by album title, song title, or artist name (on mobile devices) or enter a title or artist into the search box at the top of the page (on a computer).

Creating Playlists

You can create playlists to save your favourite songs.

• Find a song you would like to add to a playlist.
• Select the three dots to the right of the song name (on a mobile device) or the list icon to the right of the song name (on a computer).
• Select Add to Playlist, then choose an existing playlist or Create New Playlist.
• If you selected Create New Playlist, you can name your playlist and add a description (optional). When you are finished, select Create Playlist.

Gale in Context Elementary (includes Kids InfoBits) has learning activities for primary school students, and includes indexed, searchable content with:

• more than 16,600 images to visually enhance projects.
• over 1,700 charts and graphs for students to easily download and add to reports.
• more than 600 high-quality educational videos.
• over 1,050 topic pages for "one-stop-shop" learning.

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Bonus Borrows Now Monthly! For the last seven days of each calendar month, patrons will be able to choose from a selection of TV shows, movies, comics and manga, eBooks, and audiobooks without using their monthly borrows.

Master Your Instrument at Your Own Pace
Now you can learn how to play your favorite songs from anywhere! This exclusive BingePass invites you to browse over 100 courses covering all styles of playing for guitar, bass, and ukulele. Dubbed the “Netflix of music education,” the Fret Zealot platform provides over 3,500 video lessons from the world’s top instructors. Whether you’re a novice or an adept player, the curated courses cater to all skill levels and let you learn at your own pace.

Borrow, listen, read, and enjoy on hoopla. Includes a selection of movies, television shows, educational/instructional videos, documentaries, music, eAudiobooks, eBooks, and comics via your browser, smartphone, or tablet (via iOS (Apple) devices and select Android devices). hoopla also supports Amazon Alexa devices including support for the Echo, Dot, Spot, and Show. No waiting lists. No holds. No late fees. Instant availability. Borrow 5 items per month and make the most of your library membership. But that's not all—please note that there is also a daily limit across the Library system to ensure fair access to all users.Get started enjoying hoopla.

Patrons can now seamlessly browse, borrow, and stream audiobooks, movies, television, and music through their LG TVs!

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Streaming and Downloading

After downloading the hoopla app, you can download content to your device.​

How to download movies, TV shows, audiobooks and music:

1. After you borrow an item, you'll see its info screen.
2. Tap the download prompt or Download to your device.

Kids Mode

Kids Mode helps parents and their children discover kid-friendly content. When you turn on Kids Mode, you'll only see content recommended for kids 12 and younger.

To enable Kids Mode, open the hoopla app on your device, select "Settings", select "Kids Mode", then select "Turn On". Turning on Kids Mode only affects the device and not your account. Need to turn off Kids Mode? Simply go back to settings and select "Turn Off".

Compatible Devices

hoopla now supports Amazon Alexa devices! You can play borrowed audiobooks and music albums directly on your Amazon Echo, Dot, Spot, and Show devices. Additionally, Alexa can tell you how many borrows you have left in the month, what you currently have borrowed, the Library’s phone number (if you need a person to talk with) and more! When listening to music from Hoopla, you can use “Alexa next” or “Alexa previous” to go to the next/previous tracks. When asking Alexa to interact with Hoopla, phrase your command like this: “Alexa, ask hoopla…”

A hoopla eAudiobook experience is now available on Android and iPhone devices incorporating several key feature enhancements:

• Car & Activity Mode is a simplified interface with fewer controls and larger buttons for when you’re on the go.
• Chapter/Book Timer gives users a simple toggle to switch between viewing the time remaining in either the current chapter or the entire book.
• Playback Speed options have been increased to up to four times normal playback speed.
• Bookmark Notes can now be added to any audiobook bookmark, perfect for book clubs or educational listening.
• Sleep Timer has more options, including an End of Chapter option. Read more and watch the tutorial about these feature enhancements.
• Sleep Timer has more options, including an End of Chapter option.

hoopla has released TV apps for AppleTV, AndroidTV, Roku, and Amazon FireTV 3rd Generation as well as the Chromecast Ultra device. Patrons can download a hoopla app to view content on their televisions. hoopla is not compatible with Kobo eReaders since they currently only support viewing in ePub, Adobe PDF, plain text, and HTML. The device must be able to download the hoopla digital app for it to be a compatible device as well as it has to run one of our supported operating systems. hoopla works on most devices running Android 4.4 and above and then all devices that run iOS 11.4 and above.

Need to know how to set up hoopla on your TV, please read the hoopla FAQ page.

I need help with hoopla

Information about compatible devices, setup instructions, error messages, troubleshooting, and more is available at hoopladigital.com/help and via the ? at the top right corner in the hoopla app. You can also stop by any of our locations and ask for assistance.

Kanopy is a video streaming service that provides access to over 10,500 videos. They include the following subjects: social sciences, global studies & languages, K-12 education, design, fashion, music, literature, business, health, nursing, medicine, children's health, media studies, marketing, biology, mathematics, philosophy & religion, biology, computer science & IT, psychology, sociology, justice studies, law, technical training, and more. Discover a world of entertainment with Kanopy. Watch over 30,000 documentaries, classic and indie films and courses on Kanopy. Available on iOS, Android, Apple TV, Roku, and Chromecast.

• Roku: add the Roku channel to your account here or download from the streaming channel store on your television
• Chromecast: available through the iOS and Android app, as well as through a Chromecast browser
• Apple Airplay: cast from your iOS device to your Apple TV
• Apple TV (app available through app store)
• HDMI: connect your computer to your television via HDMI cable (or Mini DisplayPort to HDMI cable for Mac computers)

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Kanopy Ticket System

You will receive 24 tickets a month and can borrow a varying number of titles depending on how many tickets each title is worth. Every title is labelled with a ticket value and viewing window (the time you have to watch the title before it expires).

Films will require two tickets per play or four tickets per play for major studio productions. Shorts, which are single titles with a run time of 30 minutes or less, will require one ticket per play. Episodic content, like TV shows, will have variable ticketing and viewing windows dependent on total run time.

When you run out of tickets, here is the messaging you are going to see:

On a mobile device or a TV: Not Enough Tickets. You don't have enough tickets to watch this title. Tickets reset at the start of each month. In the meantime, you can still watch unlimited viewing titles.

Kanopy Kids titles will not require any tickets to access.

The Great Courses will now be included in the ticket system. Most of this content will require five tickets per course with a viewing period of up to 21 days.

If you are interested in watching several of the Great Courses, hoopla’s BingePass may suit your needs — use one hoopla borrowing credit for unlimited access to hoopla’s Great Courses Library collection for seven days.

NoveList K-8® Plus books are searchable through an easy-to-use interface with a single search bar that makes finding books and other content quick and simple. NoveList® K-8 Plus is designed to help you find your next great book. This database contains information on over 70,000 fiction titles.

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OverDrive/Libby for Kids offers a collection of fiction and non-fiction eBooks, eAudiobooks, and magazines.

You can check out up to 10 eBooks and 10 audiobooks at a time and place 10 holds at a time. OverDrive Magazines have no circulation cap and allow unlimited simultaneous use, so you can enjoy every issue of every magazine. With smart tags in the Libby app, you can be notified when each new issue is released.

Looking for some magazines that are kid-friendly? Check out OverDrive Magazines.

To access OverDrive/Libby:

• Download the Libby app from the app store on your mobile device.
• Visit libby.app.com on your computer or laptop.
• Log in at odmc.overdrive.com/odmc-georgina/kids.
• Set up OverDrive borrowing on your Kobo eReader.
• Download the Libby app for your Kindle Fire.

Need help? OverDrive now offers Front Line Tech Support.

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PebbleGo offers interactive content, reading supports, learning activities and educational games.

Topics include:

1. Animals--Amphibians, Animal Behaviour, Animal Classification, Animal Habitats, Birds, Dinosaurs, Fish, Insects and Spiders, Invertebrates, Mammals, Pets and Farm Animals, and Reptiles

2. Science--Earth and Sciences, Important Inventions, Life Sciences, Math, Measurements, Methods of Making Art, Physical Sciences, Science and Engineering Practices, Shapes, and Technology

3. Health--Conditions and Disabilities, Feelings and Emotions, Health Care Visits, Health Care Workers, Healthy Habits, If You Need Help, Illnesses, My World and My Health, Nutrition, Friends and Relationships, Safety, Self-Awareness, and The Human Body.

4. Social Studies--All about Money, Being a Good Citizen, Branches of the Military, Continents, Countries, Culture and Awareness, Digital Citizenship, Families, Government, Holidays, How is it Made, Jobs in the Community, Landforms, Landmarks, Maps, Military Machines, My World, Past and Present, People and the Environment, Provinces and Territories in Canada, States and Territories, The Olympics, and Transportation.

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Pressreader offers awesome reads for curious minds! Looking for something fun to read? Whether you love animals, sports, fashion, art, or cool science facts, there’s a magazine just for you on PressReader!

We’ve got tons of magazines made for kids and tweens—no boring stuff here! Flip through pages packed with amazing pictures, fun stories, puzzles, and interesting things to learn.

It doesn’t matter if you’re into wild animals, awesome inventions, or the latest trends—there’s something here that’ll grab your attention and keep you turning the pages.

Check out our collection and start exploring today! Get the PressReader Quick Start Guide.

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SIRS Discoverer is a general reference resource for beginning learners and researchers. Topics include current events, history, health, language arts, math, science, social studies, and technology. Includes newspaper and magazine articles, material from DK Eyewitness books, and science experiment ideas. Search for something specific or explore a variety of topics and current events.

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TumbleBook Library includes Storybooks, Read-Alongs, Comics, Graphic Novels, Math, Puzzles, and Games.

Install the TumbleBook Library app for Apple or Android. Once the app is downloaded and installed, click "Library", and then choose Country (Canada), choose State (Ontario). Click next. Choose Library Name (Georgina Public Library) and enter your 14-digit library card number (no spaces).

Search title or author of the following categories: Storybooks, Videos, Puzzles and Games, Language Learning, Non-Fiction, eBooks, Playlists, Graphic Novels, and Read-Alongs. Tumblebooks has some terrific how-to videos showing you how to navigate their site.