The Magic of Iframe.

This presentation was given by Rachel Sale and the first thing she did for all of use was to put our minds at rest that this product has nothing to do with Apple. My first thought when I saw the title was that it was connected with Apple and I was pleased to find that it wasn't.

The 'I' stands for inline so in fact this meeting is about inline framing. First of all Rachel explained a phenomenon that we all know only too well. You go to YouTube to watch a video and there is a lot of links to other interesting videos which take our attention and distract us from the reason we went there.

 It is not just YouTube that provides distraction and Iframe allows us to focus on exactly what we want by embedding only that which we want, be it videos or documents. It appears to support all of the main learning platforms which is a big benefit. The first thing she told us was that we need the embed code and not the regular share code. I am aware of this because it is the same to embed videos on blogger :)

Actually the whole presentation is about using this embed code. You must remember that when you are pasting (embedding) the video in your site you need to switch to html editing. I often have problems with doing this so I type most of the text in the WYSIWIG editor but switch to html to paste the embed code. So I get the best of both worlds. She told us that we can increase the size of the video by playing with the size settings.




If you need to select just a short clip of a video you can do it using the start and end command.  Here is the code for this video from youtube.

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kLq7ePSqFu4?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

At the end of the actual video code you can see a question mark? followed by rel=0. Delete the rel=0 and add 'start=(number of seconds)&end=(number of seconds)

NOTE no brackets!

The embed code for my clip is as follows

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kLq7ePSqFu4?start=30&end=65" width="420"></iframe>




You may need to do a little research with some videos but I found this page very helpful with the basics.


nimrodflores.com

Thank you for reminding me about this and giving me the impetus to find out how to make clips.

No infringement of copyright intended by using a clip from the video which is freely available on YouTube.