PostsRecently we teamed up with Schoolzone to create some examples of what could be built with Magic Studio. Its been a great success with new resources now available for English, Maths, Geography, History and Science. The Schoolzone Channel is available for free use by all our subscribers - you’ll find it in the Library.
Huge thanks [...]
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New Schoolzone Channel Launches
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Digital Britain, ICT in education and an emergent ecosystem
The ambitions of the Digitial Britain report published last week are relevant to education in a number of ways. We all know that schools ‘increasingly rely on electronic content and the richness of the Internet’ … the question is how will ‘Digital Britain’ bring improvements to access, use and re-use of digital resources?
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More content for Magic Studio subscribers
We’ve launched a new channel called “MSL Extra” for all our subscribers of Magic Studio. The new channel contains over 400 new resources available for education use from various sources including fllickr, Wikipedia and Wikimedia. All these resources can be used in class and at home by teachers and students subscribing to Magic Studio Pro.
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Magic Studio now with Common Cartridge support plus …
We have made a number of new enhancements to Magic Studio this week:
As well as being able to export completed interactives as SCORM packages, you can now also export as Common Cartridge packages
SCORM packages can now be uploaded and shared
Larger sizes for videos are now supported, up to 500 pixels wide - this means that [...] -
Teachers blocked from web tools
The demand for social media in schools has been made apparent in some new research we’ve commissioned, as have the road-blocks that are preventing its more rapid take up. Here’s the full press release and results:
Facebook, Twitter and You Tube blocked in the classroom despite teacher demand
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Multiple Labels in Drag ‘n’ Drop
As mentioned in an earlier blog, users in Magic Studio can now add multiple labels to single hotspots. This is particularly useful where the drag and drop uses the “same answer” for a series of different questions. In this example, there are a number of different ways to get to the answers 2, 4, 6 [...]
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Using Audio Response in Drag ‘n’ Drop
You can now add audio responses to drag ‘n’ drop feedback - all you need is an audio file of the response you want to use. Any .mp3 you have the rights to use can be added, and your own recordings can be made with Audacity (free, open source, sound recorder and editor) before [...]
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Magic Studio and Shibboleth 2.x
Shibboleth 2.x authentication is now available for all users of Magic Studio Pro. For those unfamiliar with it, the Shibboleth System is a standards based, open source software package for web single sign-on - find out more about it here.
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New Magic release today
By the end of today Magic Studio will have a new look home page and personal dashboard that greatly improves the experience for users. Our team has also been working on a host of new features that make drag and drop interactives more flexible and improve the navigational flow of the whole service. Specific items [...]
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Follow us on Twitter!
Not only have we joined Facebook, you can now follow Magic Studio’s progress on Twitter. Click on “Find People” and search for “magicstudio”. As well as breaking news we’ll be updating Twitter when we’re at various exhibitions and conferences around the country, plus of course any other quick updates we think you’ll be interested in.