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.

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