PostsMagic has provided links to these Social Bookmark services for a while via the AddThis widget and thats been handy. However, a few weeks back we decided to make things even easier to share and now you can share directly from Magic. For Facebook sharers, we are also now passing a nice Magic Thumbnail across [...]
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New Magic Twitter, Facebook and social bookmarking goes live
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English Heritage channel tops 6500 resources
Our content partners at English Heritage have made over 1000 new resources available to the Magic Studio network through their English Heritage channel. This brings the total number of resources from EH to over 6500.
The content comes via a live SOAP feed from the Heritage Explorer website, meaning that Magic Studio users also benefit from the contextual [...] -
New Magic Release goes live
Yesterday evening a new release of Magic Studio went live – this release includes a number of enhancements, including:
new home page design
new object view page
navigation moved to the top of the page (from the right)
a new ‘Full Screen’ button is incorporated in the top right corner of all interactivesWe hope you enjoy the new changes!
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Resources for Ancient Greece
We’re working with schools to bring together some useful assets and interactives to help with the teaching of Ancient Greece at Key Stage 2. So far we’ve been adding public domain and other licensed images to Magic Studio, and we’ve also added a few interactive resources (some from us and some from Schoolzone). We’ve made [...]
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Digital Content for schools: new content upload/API
In partnership with SchoolZone, we are looking for a number of content
collections (images, audio, video) who are willing to make their
material available free of charge to engage with an online network of
80,000 teachers.
If you can provide us with a web feed (Atom, OAI, RSS) or already have
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Magic Studio launches the Content Exchange
Exciting news for us today as our Content Exchange goes live! Sitting alongside the free content, the Content Exchange also provides our users with a “pay for use” model, allowing you to take advantage of the increasing number of new commercial content providers in the Magic Studio Network.
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Update: New Flash Player 10 Plugin
We have now deployed the updates to Magic Studio for the new version of the plugin for Flash Player 10 (version 10,0,32,18). If you’re using an older version of the Flash Player plugin, Magic Studio will continue to work as normal. Thanks again for your patience.
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Upload & Create now available
As some of you will know, we’ve been experiencing a few technical issues this week which meant we had to temporarily turn off the upload and creation of new content. We’re happy to say that everything is back and working as it should be now. Thanks for bearing with us during this time and our [...]
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Magic Studio Maintenance
Due to high volumes of traffic, Magic Studio has been experiencing problems with uploading of content. Unfortunately we will need to conduct further maintenance to resolve this, which we are commencing this afternoon at 1.15pm. We expect the maintenance to last till around 5pm.
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English Heritage channel now with over 4000 resources
We are delighted to announce that our content partners at English Heritage have now made over 4300 resources available to the Magic Studio network through their English Heritage channel.
The content comes via a live feed from the Heritage Explorer website, meaning that Magic Studio users also benefit from the contextual and metadata information authored by [...]