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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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