PhET/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-
1. To open PhET webpage, 2. About PhET simulation, |
| 00:15 | 3. To register/Sign in on the page,
4. To browse activities, 5. To share your activities page, 6. About tips for using PhET, |
| 00:27 | 7. About offline access,
8. To choose the simulations based on subject and grade level, 9. To download simulations of different file formats used in PhET, |
| 00:40 | 10. 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:
1. To open PhET webpage. 2. About PhET simulation, 3. To register/Sign in on the page, |
| 12:26 | 4. To browse activities,
5. To share your activities page, 6. About tips for using PhET, 7. About offline access,
|
| 12:37 | 8. To choose the simulations based on subject and grade level, |
| 12:42 | 9. To download simulations of different file formats used in PhET,
10. 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. |
