Could you write for Hello World magazine?
Thinking about New Year’s resolutions? Ditch the gym and tone up your author muscles instead, by writing an article for Hello World magazine. We’ll help you, you’ll expand your knowledge of a topic you care about, and you’ll be contributing something of real value to the computing education community.
The computing and digital making magazine for educators
Hello World is our free computing magazine for educators, published in partnership with Computing At School and kindly supported by BT. We launched at the Bett Show in January 2017, and over the past twelve months, we’ve grown to a readership of 15000 subscribers. You can get your own free copy here.
Our work is sustained by wonderful educational content from around the world in every issue. We’re hugely grateful to our current pool of authors – keep it up, veterans of 2017! – and we want to provide opportunities for new voices in the community to join them. You might be a classroom teacher sharing your scheme of work, a volunteer reflecting on running an after-school club, an industry professional sharing your STEM expertise, or an academic providing insights into new research – we’d love contributions from all kinds of people in all sorts of roles.
Your article doesn’t have to be finished and complete: if you send us an outline, we will work with you to develop it into a full piece.
Five reasons to write for Hello World
Here are five reasons why writing for Hello World is a great way to start 2018:
1. You’ll learn something new
Researching an article is one of the best ways to broaden your knowledge about something that interests you.
2. You’ll think more clearly
Notes in hand, you sit at your desk and wonder how to craft all this information into a coherent piece of writing. It’s a situation we’re all familiar with. Writing an article makes you examine and clarify what you really think about a subject.
3. You’ll make cool projects
Testing a project for a Hello World resource is a perfect opportunity to build something amazing that’s hitherto been locked away inside your brain.
4. You’ll be doing something that matters
Sharing your knowledge and experience in Hello World helps others to teach and learn computing. It helps bring the power of digital making to more and more educators and learners.
5. You’ll share with an open and supportive community
The computing education community is full of people who lend their experience to help colleagues. Contributing to Hello World is a great way to take an active part in this supportive community, and you’ll be adding to a body of free, open source learning resources that are available for everyone to use, adapt, and share. It’s also a tremendous platform to broadcast your work: the digital version alone of Hello World has been downloaded over 50000 times.
Yes! What do I do next?
Feeling inspired? Email our editorial team with your idea.
Issue 4 of Hello World is out this month! Subscribe for free today to have it delivered to your inbox or your home.
2 comments
Lucas Vanlaar
I have been in ICT since 1981 in data communications, then crypto security and eftpos certification authority and pure random numbers systems hardware and software developments,LANs, WANs, Modems, Muxes, Switches, PABXes, PCs, software Billing systems, telephony TIMS systems, Linux, Mac, SQL, and various hacking of electronics including Raspberry Pi, with Noobs. Cute little beast with many applictions. I am retired and living in Thailand looking to use my vast background usefully and “Hello World” might be fun…
Raspberry Pi Staff Dan Fisher — post author
That’s great Lucas, think about an idea for an educational article on a certain topic and send it to the email address above. :-)