Recommended resources, tools and further reading

Recommended resources, tools and further reading to kickstart your remote storytelling workshop

Tools we used to run our remote storytelling workshops

• BigBlueButton
• Mattermost
• Telegram
• Etherpads (eg. on Riseup.net) 

Tools to create your stories

These tools were used at the workshop and many were recommended by our participants. 

Media, images, photos, icons, and general content

• Creative Commons: https://search.creativecommons.org 
• Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page 
• Internet Archive: https://archive.org/ 
• The Public Domain Project: https://www.pond5.com/free 
• Pexels Creative Commons: https://www.pexels.com
• Flickr Creative Commons: https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons /
• Unsplash: https://unsplash.com  
• The Noun Project: https://thenounproject.com/  (icons)
• Freepik: https://freepik.com/ 
• Cliply: https://cliply.co (GIFs)
• Giphy royalty free GIFS: https://giphy.com/explore/royalty-free 

Audio 

• Musopen: https://musopen.org/ 
• CC Mixter: http://ccmixter.org/ 
• Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/ 
• Bensound: https://www.bensound.com/ 
• Freesound: https://freesound.org/ 
• Youtube music library: https://studio.youtube.com/ 
• Thematic: http://hellothematic.com/michellephan/ 
• Audacity: https://www.audacityteam.org 

Video 

• Adobe Premiere Rush?
• Open Broadcaster Software https://obsproject.com 
• https://itsfoss.com/open-source-video-editors/ (check if this complies with FLOSS)

How others tell their stories

• Using voice notes to tell stories: https://www.apc.org/en/blog/community-networks-stories-sharing-vision-and-importance-network-improve-and-strengthen-peoples 
• MFI Africa E-Zine: https://archive.org/details/mfiafricaezinefinal/page/n5/mode/2up 
• AfroQueer podcast: https://afroqueerpodcast.com/episodes/ 
• End of the World: https://www.endoftheworldshow.org 
• Digital storytelling from APC: https://stories.apc.org/browse/