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.
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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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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 [...] -
Magic Studio Learning is bigger…
We’ve combined our two free channels, Magic Studio Learning and MSL Extra into one; all the assets previously available in MSL Extra are now in Magic Studio Learning and available for use by all our users.
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Magic Studio selected in the 2009 AlwaysOn Global 250
Great news, Magic Studio has been selected on the 2009 AlwaysOn Global 250 List!
The AlwaysOn Global 250 Award is given to private, emerging technology companies creating new business opportunities in high-growth markets. Magic Studio was selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team based on demonstration of growth, market opportunity, quality of innovation and customer traction.
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New Schoolzone Channel Launches
Recently 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.
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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?
Without having to [...]