January 27, 2010
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 interactives
We hope you enjoy the new changes!
Posted by martynfarrows in Product Updates, Technical Development |
October 23, 2009
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
your content in YouTube, Flickr or Picasa, we can [...]
Tags: API, content feeds, schoolzone
Posted by martynfarrows in Museums, News, Technical Development |
September 24, 2009
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.
Posted by martynfarrows in Product Updates, Technical Development |
May 13, 2009
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.
Administration of Shibboleth for the education sector is provided by the UK Access Management Federation, supported by [...]
Tags: authentication, shibboleth
Posted by martynfarrows in Learning Platforms, Product Updates, Schools, Technical Development |
May 1, 2009
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 [...]
Posted by benhayman in Learning Platforms, News, Product Updates, Technical Development |
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 [...]
Tags: digital content, Learning Platforms, value chain, web2.0
Posted by martynfarrows in Learning Platforms, Schools, Technical Development |
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 [...]
Tags: API, Magic Studio Gateway, Magic Studio Network
Posted by martynfarrows in Learning Platforms, Museums, Product Updates, Schools, Technical Development |