# 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](https://search.creativecommons.org/)
- Wikimedia Commons: [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main\_Page](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
- Internet Archive: [https://archive.org/](https://archive.org/)
- The Public Domain Project: [https://www.pond5.com/free](https://www.pond5.com/free)
- Pexels Creative Commons: [https://www.pexels.com](https://www.pexels.com/search/creative%20commons/)
- Flickr Creative Commons: [https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons](https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons) /
- Unsplash: [https://unsplash.com](https://unsplash.com/)
- The Noun Project: [https://thenounproject.com/](https://thenounproject.com/) (icons)
- Freepik: [https://freepik.com/](https://freepik.com/)
- Cliply: [https://cliply.co](https://cliply.co/) (GIFs)
- Giphy royalty free GIFS: [https://giphy.com/explore/royalty-free](https://giphy.com/explore/royalty-free)

#### Audio 


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

#### Video 


- Adobe Premiere Rush?
- Open Broadcaster Software [https://obsproject.com](https://obsproject.com/)
- [https://itsfoss.com/open-source-video-editors/](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](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](https://archive.org/details/mfiafricaezinefinal/page/n5/mode/2up)
- AfroQueer podcast: [https://afroqueerpodcast.com/episodes/](https://afroqueerpodcast.com/episodes/)
- End of the World: [https://www.endoftheworldshow.org](https://www.endoftheworldshow.org/)
- Digital storytelling from APC: [https://stories.apc.org/browse/](https://stories.apc.org/browse/)