PhET-Simulations-for-Biology/C2/Introduction-to-PhET-Simulations/English-timed
Timed | Narration |
00:01 | Welcome to this tutorial on Introduction to PhET simulations. |
00:06 | In this tutorial we will learn-
To open PhET webpage About PhET simulation. |
00:15 | To register/Sign in on the page.
To browse Activities. To share your activities page. About tips for using PhET. |
00:27 | About offline access. To choose the simulations based on subject and grade level.
To download simulations of different file formats used in PhET. |
00:40 | To open the downloaded simulations. |
00:43 | To follow this tutorial, you should have,Internet connection. |
00:47 | Here I am using, Ubuntu Linux OS version 14.04
Firefox web Browser version 53.02.2 Java version 1.7 Flash player version 26.0.0.131. |
01:08 | Files to download and Install, Flash Player and Java are provided in the code files link. Use the link to download and install the files. |
01:20 | Now let us open PhET simulations page. |
01:24 | Open your default web browser and enter the address http://phet.colorado.edu and press enter. |
01:38 | PhET interactive Simulations' page opens. |
01:42 | Now let us see how to register on the page. Click on the REGISTER button on the top-right corner of the page. |
01:51 | Register page opens. |
01:54 | Type the relevant data in appropriate fields/text boxes.
For example, your valid Email id,First name, Organization and other details. |
02:11 | Click on REGISTER button at the bottom of the page. I have already registered on this page. |
02:19 | To confirm the registration, Open your Gmail account. |
02:25 | Click on the link sent by PhET Interactive simulations to activate the registration. |
02:32 | After you have registered you can sign in. |
02:36 | Click on SIGN IN button beside REGISTER button at the top of the page. |
02:43 | Sign In by using your registered Email id and Password. |
02:48 | I will Sign In using my registered email id,school.science13@gmail.com |
02:56 | Enter the password.Click on Sign In button. |
03:01 | Now let us click on the link What is PhET?. |
03:05 | A new page opens with a heading About PhET.This page has information about PhET. |
03:13 | Below this information we have a short video about introduction to PhET simulations. |
03:20 | I will click on the play button and play the video for sometime. |
03:27 | On the right-side panel, Videos About PhET are listed. Click on the videos and watch them. |
03:36 | Back to the home page.Click on Browse Activities link.Browse Activities page opens. |
03:45 | Here we have the following lists.Simulations, Types, Levels and Languages. |
03:56 | Scroll the lists and select based on your requirement. |
04:01 | In Simulations list, I will select Bending light. |
04:05 | In Types list, I will select Lab.In Levels, I will select High School, HS. |
04:14 | In Languages, I will select English. |
04:18 | Click on browse button. Activities related to the simulation will be displayed. |
04:25 | Select the activity by clicking on the TITLE.There is also an option to download the activity. |
04:33 | Go to the home page by clicking on the back arrow button.Click on Share your Activities link. |
04:42 | If you have already signed in, this page opens directly. Page opens with Author’s name, Author’s organization and Contact email. |
04:54 | In the Simulations box, choose the simulation for which you are going to upload the activity. |
05:00 | In Upload file(s) option, allowed file extension formats are listed. |
05:06 | Click on CHOOSE FILE button.File Upload dialog box opens. |
05:13 | Choose your file with allowed extension to upload. I have already filled in the relevant data. |
05:21 | Click on Licensing Agreement check box after reading the License agreement. Click on SUBMIT ACTIVITY button. |
05:31 | Update Success message appears. Let us go back to the home page. Click on the link Tips for Using PhET. |
05:42 | A new page opens with videos that explain how to use PhET simulations. You can explore these videos on your own. |
05:53 | Back to the home page of PhETs . |
05:57 | You can either click on Play button or Play with Simulations link. |
06:03 | A simulations page opens. |
06:06 | On the left side of the page you can see a heading called Simulations. |
06:12 | Under the heading we have a list of links.
New Sims HTML5 Subject wise Sims By Grade Level Teacher Resources and other links. |
06:26 | Here we can choose the appropriate links as per requirement. |
06:30 | Let us click on By Grade Level link. |
06:34 | A new page opens with four links,
Elementary School Middle School High School and University. |
06:44 | Again choose the link as per your requirement. I will click on High School link. |
06:51 | All simulations that are under High School category are displayed on the new page. |
06:59 | To view all the available Sims, click on All Sims link. A new page opens with all the Sims. |
07:08 | Scroll down the page. Notice that we have Simulations in 3 different formats HTML, Java and Flash. |
07:19 | They are denoted by icons on the bottom-right corner of the simulation. |
07:25 | The simulations in HTML format are denoted by HTML5 icon at the bottom-right corner of the window. |
07:34 | We can directly open HTML format and flash format simulations by clicking on them.
Click on the play button.The simulation window opens . |
07:48 | We can work with the simulation till we are connected to Internet. Back to the previous page. |
07:56 | To download the simulation for off-line use, let us select Atomic Interactions PhET simulation. |
08:03 | Click on Download button to download the file. |
08:07 | Opening atomic-interactions_en.html file dialog box opens. |
08:14 | Select Save File radio button. Click on Ok button. |
08:20 | In my system, file will be downloaded to the Downloads folder. |
08:25 | Here is the downloaded HTML file of atomic-interactions simulation. |
08:31 | To open the simulation, right-click on the file.Choose the option Open With Firefox Web Browser.File opens in the browser. |
08:43 | This is the interface of atomic-interactions simulation.Click on various element radio buttons and explore the simulation. |
08:53 | Let us go to the simulations page. |
08:56 | Let's download a simulation that can be opened as Java file. For this I will use the simulation Battery-Resistor Circuit. |
09:07 | To download the file click on Download button. |
09:11 | Opening battery-resistor-circuit_en.jar file dialog box opens. |
09:18 | Select Save File radio button. Click on Ok button. File will be downloaded to the Downloads folder. |
09:27 | To work with a jar file we require terminal in Ubuntu. |
09:32 | To open the terminal press Ctrl , Alt and T keys simultaneously. |
09:38 | At the prompt type, cd Downloads and press enter. |
09:44 | Then type java space hyphen jar space battery-resistor-circuit_en.jar and press enter. |
09:58 | Battery-Resistor Circuit simulation opens.Do not close the terminal, it will kill the process.Click Cancel to continue. |
10:09 | Back to the previous page of PhETs. |
10:13 | Now we will download a simulation that can be opened using Flash reader. |
10:19 | For this I will use Calculus Grapher simulation as an example. |
10:25 | For off-line use, download the simulation. After downloading use terminal to open the simulation. |
10:33 | Click on the simulation.Calculus Grapher simulation opens with a player.Explore the simulation. |
10:41 | Back to the Home page of PhETs. |
10:45 | At the bottom of the page, click on OFFLINE ACCESS link. |
10:49 | You can see three options,
1.Desktop/Laptop Computer 2.Chrome book 3. iPad. |
10:58 | Click on Desktop/Laptop Computer option. |
11:02 | Here again we have two installer options,Download installer with simulations only (no activities) and Download installer with simulations and activities. |
11:16 | I will choose the second installer option, Download installer with simulations and activities. |
11:23 | Depending on your operating system you can choose,
Windows(includes Java) Mac OS X Linux |
11:34 | I am a Linux user, so I will use Linux installer. |
11:39 | Opening PhET-Installer-with-activities_Linux.bin dialog box opens. Click on Save File button. |
11:49 | The file will be saved in the Downloads folder. |
11:53 | Downloading the files takes a few minutes.I have already downloaded the Linux installer file to my Downloads folder. |
12:03 | As an assignment,
Explore the PhET interactive simulations webpage. Download and open simulations of different file formats. |
12:13 | Let us summarize.In this tutorial we have learnt,
To open PhET webpage.About PhET simulation. To register/Sign in on the page. |
12:26 | To browse Activities.To share your activities page.About tips for using PhET. About offline access. |
12:37 | To choose the simulations based on subject and grade level. |
12:42 | To download simulations of different file formats used in PhET. To open the downloaded simulations. |
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14:00 | This tutorial is contributed by Madhuri Ganapathi and Meenal Ghoderao from IIT Bombay.Thank you for joining. |