Watch YouTube videos with higher speed

If you watch many tutorials on YouTube, sometimes the speaker talks toooo slooowww. You can speed up the video to 1.5x or 2x.

1. You have to opt-in for the HTML5 player on YouTube: LogIn to your Account and go to

http://www.youtube.com/html5

There you can select to use the HTML5 player whenever possible.

2. When watching a video you can change the speed:
settings (German: Einstellungen) > speed (German: Geschwindigkeit)

Google Drive as File Server

Instead of sharing a folder or file via the default link

https://drive.google.com/folderview?usp=sharing&id=0B1VFRCi6...yT00 

there is the possibility to share without the Drive GUI like

https://www.googledrive.com/host/0B1VFRCi6...yT00

where 0B1VFRCi6...yT00 is the Drive-ID of the folder/file.
All files then are handled by the browser and not through the Drive viewers. E.g. HTML files are rendered and in a folder one can download a file with right-click of the mouse etc.

Free Web and Smart Phone Clicker System: Socrative

Socrative is an easy way of using student response devices ("clickers") as a way to engage students in large lecture classes (buzz word "Peer Instruction" on wikipedia, German HD-MINT)

How to get started?

• Teachers log in at t.socrative.com or by launching your app (Android, iOS).
• Students participate via m.socrative.com or by launching their app (Android, iOS). They do not register for accounts, instead simply enter a unique classroom number to answer questions (anonymous!)

Ambient Sound & Creativity with Coffitivity

"Is Noise Always Bad? Exploring the Effects of Ambient Noise on Creative Cognition" (R. Mehta, R. Zhu, and A. Cheema, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/665048)

In this paper it is described how ambient noise affects creativity. How you can realize this when you are working at home?

screenshot of www.coffitivity.com

Get the ambient sound of a coffee shop to boost your concentration and creativity:

http://www.coffitivity.com/

Link to the mp3: http://www.coffitivity.com/sounds/audio/mp3/

Generate Tag / Word Clouds with Wordle

Go to: http://www.wordle.net/create, paste in your word list and you will get something like this:

How to embed LaTeX Mathematical Formulas in HTML

A converter from LaTeX code to PNG images is found at http://atomurl.net/math/, e.g.

There are two ways of usage:

• Either you can download the image and embed it in your HTML page, 
• or you can just embed a created link to the chart api of Google (http://developers.google.com/chart/) which generates the image on the fly...