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The Computer Science for Fun Project: Teacher Feedback

Sample of Feedback from Teachers about cs4fn magazine

Sample of Feedback from Teachers about cs4fn magazine

We asked teachers asking for extra copies of the cs4fn magazine to tell us why they wanted them.

  • "Am previous bulk subscriber for Computing club at [a] Specialist Technology College, where magazines has inspired the club to seek opportunities to learn more about computing."
  • "I came across issue 7 for the first time and I am very impressed by the content and context. I think this would be of great interest to our computing, multimedia and art students."
  • "The magazines provide a fun, but informative way of putting Computing into perspective with real life."
  • "We believe your magazines are highly informative, interesting and relates to topical ICT issues (Issue 6 was excellent). Additional issues would be an excellent resource for our students taking options in Year 9 who are interested in ICT and would benefit from seeing links between ICT, Science, Art and technology. This could enable them to make informed option choices based around areas of interest, links between subject areas and would also help them understand potential job opportunities."
  • "This magazine is great! Please send 25 copies for me to use in my computer science technology class."
  • "I am teaching some first year students the basics of ethics and IT so these would make a great workshop activity"

Feedback from Teachers around using magazines to support English/literacy

  • "...copies in order to offer our students an alternative to fiction/non-fiction books. ... They will also be used in English when studying a range of text types."
  • " technology teachers are both very impressed with the easy layout as we have a lot of pupils with not great literacy skills but plenty of enthusiasm and interest."
  • "I would like sufficient copies for each of the English department staff. This magazine would be excellent for practise with extracting information from non-fiction texts, as students are required to do in their English Language exam, with subject matter that is interesting and articles that are not too long. "
  • "would love extra copies to put into our Vertical Tutoring literacy boxes as a science/DT resource (literacy boxes tend to be very 'English Literature' in nature!). 85 copies would allow for one per box plus a couple of spare. The literacy boxes are used at least once a week during VT time to encourage the students to develop their reading skills and to impart the importance of reading around their subject areas."

Sample of Feedback from Teachers about ee4fn magazine

We asked teachers asking for extra copies of ee4fn to tell us why they wanted them.

  • "Fantastic response to the first magazine-it has already been whisked away by our Head of ICT for use in lessons"
  • "4 X class sets to give free to top set pupils (at a single sex [girls] school) in order to inspire, motivate and exemplify further study and career opportunity within STEM subjects"
  • "AS AN EX-ELECTRONICS ENGINEER THIS MAGAZINE IS THE SORT OF ENCOURAGING PUBLICATION THAT HAS BEEN LACKING IN SCHOOLS"
  • "I have just received a copy of EE4FN and am very impressed. "
  • "...getting a personal copy would help enthuse the pupils even more."
  • "It has had interest from pupils in our LRC. Therefore I am reqesting a class set in order to put more in the LRC for reading and also to give to our Computing dept for distribution in their clubs etc."

Sample of Comments from School Librarians about magazines and booklets

We asked librarians asking for extra copies of our magazines and booklets to tell us why they wanted them.

  • "Your magazine is a popular read in our library. We are always trying to ensure our students have access to inspiring and thought-provoking resources, and there is a definite gap in our computing section for a book on women in the field."
  • "I am currently setting up a new library in an Academy and your publication was recommended by colleagues as a good resource."
  • "I would like to put copies in areas of the school other than the Library and students are more likely to pick up a magazine than a book. As I also act as Librarian to our co-located Special School I will put a copy or two there. There are students who would find the articles very interesting."
  • "I received a free copy of your magazine and asked the I.T department to take a look- they were very impressed and asked if I could obtain multiple copoes for use throughout the I.T and sciences departments. I am not sure how many copies I can have but as many as possible would be fantastic."
  • "Small university library wanting to provide computing resource options to students."
  • Please send 16 copies for use in our library and can be passed on to the staff. I would like a copy of Women in computing also please."
  • "As a former Women's Studies student I am interested in anything that celebrates women's contribution to science, history etc. Also, our school runs a girl's computer club and the publication would be a great resource for this."
  • "I would like to put copies in all of our libraries and also give some to our ICT Department. Many thanks"