PostsOur 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 [...]
Schools
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English Heritage channel tops 6500 resources
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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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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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More content for Magic Studio subscribers
We’ve launched a new channel called “MSL Extra” for all our subscribers of Magic Studio. The new channel contains over 400 new resources available for education use from various sources including fllickr, Wikipedia and Wikimedia. All these resources can be used in class and at home by teachers and students subscribing to Magic Studio Pro.
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Teachers blocked from web tools
The demand for social media in schools has been made apparent in some new research we’ve commissioned, as have the road-blocks that are preventing its more rapid take up. Here’s the full press release and results:
Facebook, Twitter and You Tube blocked in the classroom despite teacher demand
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Magic Studio and Shibboleth 2.x
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.
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Magic Studio and SchoolZone team up!
More great news … we’re partnering with one of the largest online communities of teachers to provide them with access to Magic Studio.
From today, over 50,000 registered users of SchoolZone will be able to access their very own Magic Studio envrionment. And because we’ve used the Magic Studio platform API, existing SchoolZone users don’t even [...] -
Repurpose, Create, Share
“Repurpose, Create, Share” was a Becta funded and NEN supported project that gave over 40 English secondary schools the opportunity to exploit online digital resources to create more interactive and engaging materials for teaching and learning at Key Stages 3 and 4.
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SSAT, Sir Ken Robinson and Creativity
We’ve been exhibiting Magic Studio again this week – at the 16th National SSAT Conference “Leading System Redesign”. Once again, SSAT put together a challenging and inspiring programme.
Probably most inspiring of all was Sir Ken Robinson’s Keynote on Wednesday – standing room only in the ICC’s Symphony Hall! His enthusiasm for education reminds us why [...] -
Coming Soon: “England’s Past for Everyone” to join Magic Studio
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, [...]