PostsWe have made a new SILVER prototype module on Leadership available for testing at: http://prototype3.silver.magicstudio.com/login/signup_finish
Why not give it a try and find out what type of Leader you are! You can leave feedback about SILVER here:
http://silvereducation.wordpress.com/2010/04/26/user-testing-prototype-3-leadership/
Product Updates
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New SILVER module available
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New Magic Twitter, Facebook and social bookmarking goes live
Magic 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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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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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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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 now with Common Cartridge support plus …
We have made a number of new enhancements to Magic Studio this week:
As well as being able to export completed interactives as SCORM packages, you can now also export as Common Cartridge packages
SCORM packages can now be uploaded and shared
Larger sizes for videos are now supported, up to 500 pixels wide – this means that [...] -
Multiple Labels in Drag ‘n’ Drop
As mentioned in an earlier blog, users in Magic Studio can now add multiple labels to single hotspots. This is particularly useful where the drag and drop uses the “same answer” for a series of different questions. In this example, there are a number of different ways to get to the answers 2, 4, 6 [...]
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Using Audio Response in Drag ‘n’ Drop
You can now add audio responses to drag ‘n’ drop feedback – all you need is an audio file of the response you want to use. Any .mp3 you have the rights to use can be added, and your own recordings can be made with Audacity (free, open source, sound recorder and editor) before [...]