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  • Coming Soon: “England’s Past for Everyone” to join Magic Studio
  • Magic Studio is growing, we need to upgrade our servers!
  • Magic Studio at the MA Conference
  • Conflating the value chain for digital learning content?
  • Setting out our (API) stall
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  • Magic Studio builds timelines in … Norway
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  • Hotspot Display Options for Image Explorer
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  • Coming Soon: “England’s Past for Everyone” to join Magic Studio

    November 17, 2008

    Local history assets from ten English counties are coming to Magic Studio!

    England’s Past for Everyone (EPE) is a Heritage Lottery-funded local history project run by the Victoria County History at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. EPE is working with academics and local communities to produce a series of paperback books, [...]

    Posted by markfarnell in Uncategorized | Comments

  • Magic Studio is growing, we need to upgrade our servers!

    October 14, 2008

    Magic Studio is growing - both in terms of users and content that will soon be available to our users.  To ensure that our service remains of the highest possible standard, we are upgrading our servers tomorrow night (Wednesday 15th October) from 6pm to 10pm (B.S.T.).  You may not be able to access Magic Studio [...]

    Posted by markfarnell in News, Product Updates | Comments

  • Magic Studio at the MA Conference

    October 6, 2008

    For the next couple of days, we’re up in Liverpool at the annual Museums Association Conference and Exhibition.  We’re here with our content partners English Heritage to tell everyone about using Gateway to get collection content into classrooms.
    On Day 2, we are doing a joint presentation entitled “From the Collection to the Classroom”, where we’ll be demonstrating [...]

    Posted by martynfarrows in Museums, News | Comments

  • Conflating the value chain for digital learning content?

    September 10, 2008

    Five years ago, in the Summer of 2003, the Department for Education and Skills published a document entitled ‘The Value Chain for Digital Learning Content in England’.
    The purpose of the document was

    to provide a commonly understood model and language for the Digital Learning Content market in England. It represents the value that is added to [...]

    Posted by martynfarrows in Learning Platforms, Schools, Technical Development | Comments

  • Setting out our (API) stall

    September 4, 2008

    There’s a buzz at the moment about API’s and the growing demand for openness to satisfy the demand for the creative re-use of digital assets.
    Of course, we are big fans of open API’s. They are incredibly useful because they allow systems to interface with each other, and when used over the web they have he [...]

    Posted by martynfarrows in Learning Platforms, Museums, Product Updates, Schools, Technical Development | Comments

  • Rich Text Editing

    August 29, 2008

    Rich Text Editing has been extended from Featurette and added to text fields in Image Explorer and Timeline. This means you can now use basic formatting such as bold, italic, underline and bullet points in text in your interactives.
    We’ve also added URL linking, so you can link your text and interactives to relevant websites [...]

    Posted by markfarnell in News, Product Updates | Comments (1)

  • Timeline Product Updates

    August 29, 2008

    Hi everyone. Although its the summer holidays we’ve been working on making some more improvements to Timeline (plus rich text editing - see a different post on that).
    First we’ve added BC/AD functionality. That means timelines can now go as far back in time using BC dates as you need. All you need [...]

    Posted by markfarnell in News, Product Updates | Comments

  • Magic Studio builds timelines in … Norway

    July 15, 2008

    This is a bit of a ‘niche’ post, but anyone interested in history and illustrating the relationships between historical events may find it useful!
    I was in Norway last week, teaching at the University of Agder in Kristiansand (right down in the south of the country), for the 2008 European Integration Summer School, which has been run almost [...]

    Posted by martynfarrows in News, Schools | Comments

  • Multiple Labels for Drag ‘n Drop

    July 14, 2008

    We’ve added a new feature to the Drag ‘n’ Drop tool which enables authors to use the same label on more than one hotspot.
    During authoring you can use a previously created label to place on a new hotspot - either from a list of text labels or by choosing the same image from your content [...]

    Posted by markfarnell in Product Updates | Comments

  • Hotspot Display Options for Image Explorer

    July 14, 2008

    We’ve added a new feature which enables authors to set different levels of visibility to hotspots to Image Explorers.
    You can now choose from Invisible, Low, Medium (default) and High - click on the Settings button to choose your Hotspot Display option.
    This feature means that as an author you can decide how easy it is for [...]

    Posted by markfarnell in Product Updates | Comments

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