I recently thought of a great community to begin to develop here on Steem: a read aloud community.
It's nice to be able to find children's books being read online. I've seen a number of videos where educators have recorded themselves reading for their class.
It could be especially nice with good production value like highlighting key words, animating characters from the pages, panning & zooming, and character voices.
As a community here on Steem, if folks would delegate funds as a member fee in order to get access, rewards could be distributed among creators on a regular basis beyond the 7-day rewards payout.
I have thought about doing read-aloud, too. There are copyright challenges, but it might work with public domain documents from before 1924 or licensed under creative commons. For kids, Aesop's fables and Hans Christian Andersen spring to mind as obvious examples... (although, I learned about a decade and a half ago that the original versions of Aesop's Fables were surprisingly graphic in nature).
As were the Grimm's tales.
But, there's a whole realm of possibilities there, too with different adaptations of those stories than what you find in common contemporary versions.
One of our favorite podcasts has been "Grimm, Grimmer, Grimmest", fairy tale podcast by Adam Gidwitz. He finds the oldest version of Grimm tales that he can, and reads it to school classes. But he adds his own adaptations, too.
Oh yeah, right! It was Grimm's that I was thinking of. Sorry. They all blur together since I haven't been reading them to anyone recently.
Ha!
Daily part of my life still!
It would be nice to build something that fosters a creator community whose scope and scale is different than what has emerged out of the Steem blockchain framework so far.