MagicStudio secures funding for classroom application
Magic Studio is an online platform that lets teachers create educational resources from content online. It has tools for content owners and is designed to work in the classroom with a whiteboard. It can also pull in content from Flickr, YouTube, Picasa and others and present it in a classroom friendly manner. Magic Studio costs 50p per pupil per year to implement. Content partners so far include English Heritage and Nottinghamshire Local Authority.
So for instance,teachers can create digital timelines, where historical events can be placed into a clickable timeline, ‘drag and drop’ exercises, where students are encouraged to place objects in the right place on an image. There’s also a high security aspect this given that it’s designed to present content inside a school – teacher doesn’t want any surprises…