Ed Tech Digest

Ten years ago, in another somewhat futile attempt to reduce the backlog of resources I want to share, I began this occasional “Ed Tech Digest” post where I share three or four links I think are particularly useful and related to…ed tech, including some Web 2.0 apps.

You might also be interested in checking out all my edtech resources.

Here are this week’s choices:

If you have ever tried to read free books from sites like Project Gutenberg, you noticed that they can be uncomfortable to read, due to their layouts, type & occasional errors

This project takes those free books and makes them beautiful (and still free). standardebooks.org

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— Ethan Mollick (@emollick.bsky.social) December 25, 2024 at 5:45 AM

We launched over 200 features this year. Explore the highlights in our interactive guide! https://t.co/cVdRBUV8ka pic.twitter.com/9TAg3wqxxc

— Padlet (@padlet) December 26, 2024

Video captions are key for accessibility and clarity.

Did you know that YouTube has a keyboard shortcut for turning on and off captions? And, there are shortcuts for increasing and decreasing the caption’s text size. pic.twitter.com/NgtXrNQpdF

— Tony Vincent (@tonyvincent) December 30, 2024

Snappy Retro looks like an online private bulletin board that groups can share.

Cert Fast will create certificates.  I’m adding it to The Best Ways To Make Awards & Certificates Online.

According to our district staff, starting this summer, Google is requiring all schools that use Google for Education to get parent signatures to ‘opt-in” to YouTube and , incredibly, Google Translate, use

— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) May 8, 2025