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 [...]
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 [...]
In Chapter 6 of Deschooling Society, Ivan Illich talks about Learning Webs and Peer-matching (page 93):
The operation of a peer-matching network would be simple. The user would identify himself by name and address and describe the activity for which he sought a peer. A computer would send him back the names and addresses of all [...]
Its a double celebration for Magic Studio™ this week. Not only have we launched a revamped product for teachers and families, but we can also announce that Nottinghamshire Local Authority have signed up to make Magic Studio™ Pro available as a dedicated service to all its primary and secondary schools.
Pro is a dedicated, managed [...]
Following on from discussions at the MCG MW2008 conference, we would like to follow up with anyone who is interested in making their collection(s) (image, audio and video assets) available to schools free of charge for educational re-use.
The Magic Studio Pro network has been developed as a means of delivering digital assets from the cultural [...]
Metadata. If you look up the definition on wikipedia, it says “data about data”. Fair enough, I suppose. Why use more than three words when three will do.
However, ask your average user to explain what metadata is and you may well get a much shorter answer, if you get an answer at all. Does this [...]
It’s old news now – over a week since the original announcement on the Library of Congress blog – but we’re excited about the partnership between the LoC and Flickr.
It’s not just the fact that this pilot project is bringing 3000 of the 14 million photographic images to a new public LoC Flickr page.
The licencing [...]
Or something like that. Personally, I always thought Tonto more interesting than the Lone Ranger. But can you remember the name of Tonto’s horse? (answer at the bottom of this post)
Anyway, SILVER stands for Semantic Interactive Learning Visualisation Environment Research. At least it does what it says on the tin! It’s a Technology Strategy Board [...]
Well, deep breaths all round. BETT was the usual whirlwind of activity, inspirational conversations and frankly, long days standing on your feet wishing you’d had more sleep!
This time last year, Magic Studio made its first appearance as a free set of content creation tools for teachers. In the 12 months that have passed, over 700 [...]
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