Creating video tutorials

The Behaviour Composer: Getting Started

This video was created with Camtasia 6 30-day trial version. To make the video I stepped through the following steps

1. Increased the font size in the browser
2. Set the screen recording size to 804 x 632
3. From the Effects Menu I made mouse movements and clicks more visible
4. Save the video as "HD" quality and "MPEG-4" (takes around 3 minutes for a 12 MB file)
5. Upload to modelling4all youtube channel (takes around 5 minutes for 12MB file)

The tutorial shows:

1. Starting from www.modelling4all.org navigate to the Behaviour Composer
2. From the "Help!" tab we move to the "Composer" tab to edit the name of a "Prototype" to change it to "Fish". (This is achieved by left-clicking with the mouse, and selecting the "Edit" option)
3. Then we move to the "Library" tab to find the "SET SHAPE" "Micro-Behaviour"
4. We add SET-SHAPE to our Fish
5. We then press the "Run" button
6. And choose to run the simulation in our web browser as an "Applet"
7. We can see a small Fish shape in the middle of the "View" after pressing the "Setup" button
8. We close the model to go back to the library to find more micro-behaviours. We step through adding the following one-by-one: SET-SIZE-2, MOVE-FORWARD, TURN-RANDOMLY, ADD-COPIES

You can view and edit the The Behaviour Composer: Getting Started model from within the Behaviour-Composer.

Planned tutorials

Getting started

• start at Google
• go to web site
• go to behaviour composer
• change prototype name to fish and give it an image
• change shape - run (explain takes longer first time run applet)
• move forward - run
• move left or right - run
• add 9
• summarise what has been done

A quick tour of lots of modelling4all features

• google to web site to behaviour composer
• create a predator prey model using existing MBs
• change parameters
• copy an MB and add it
• create a slider and show it working
• create a new MB and add it to the model
• share the model

Your briefcase

• Explain the user link e.g. as a bookmark in the browser

Sharing models and micro-behaviours

• Explain scenario
• Run through different options
• Show me sharing a URL of a model with friends e.g. using facebook/ email/ forum
• Remind people how privacy works e.g. private until you decide to share with others

Changing parameters in micro-behaviours

• Get fish model and change to ants
• Make ants bigger
• Make them move differently
• Make more of them

Adding components to the user interface

• Create prototype for slider
• Add slider and name variable wiggle
• Create fish prototype
• Add move forward
• Add turn-randomly and edit parameters to wiggle
• Explain what is happening
• Explain that there are many other user interface elements

Copying micro-behaviours

• Using last model add another slider and so new variable
• Use new variable to change move forward
• Explain why it works this way

Downloading into NetLogo for debugging

• Make an error in the code e.g. forget to add a specific MB
• look at debugging message in BC
• download code
• debug in NL too
• fix

Making new micro-behaviours

Making a new library

Making a new guide