ReverentCreature Posted January 14, 2019 Posted January 14, 2019 Hi what computing magazines do you subscribe to for keeping up-to-date? We are looking particularly at education related ones rather than personal home ones. Thanks, Jason
elsiegee40 Posted January 14, 2019 Posted January 14, 2019 (edited) Magazines covering this sector are often out of date by the time they're published. Technology changes too fast. I use a variety of online sources including EduGeek as we have some very good at spotting links like @Arthur Edited January 14, 2019 by elsiegee40 1
dhicks Posted January 14, 2019 Posted January 14, 2019 We are looking particularly at education related ones rather than personal home ones. The Raspberry Pi-orientated MagPi might be the kind of thing you're aiming for: https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/ Available to buy as a printed version, but also available to download as a PDF for free. There's a couple of other similar (paid-for) magazines linked to from Raspberry Pi's homepage now, too. 1
hardtailstar Posted January 14, 2019 Posted January 14, 2019 Follow education companies on Twitter as they post up relevant stuff with links etc. Also subscribe to newsletters from places. These will be more up to date than magazines. Also as @elsiegee40 says that there is quite often threads on here by @Arthur and other users. 1
DalekSec Posted January 14, 2019 Posted January 14, 2019 Same as most people are saying, a lot easier to keep up to date via News sites than mags. Personally i keep up to date via YouTube and Twitter 1
RTi78 Posted January 14, 2019 Posted January 14, 2019 Hello World is a useful one.. Free too https://helloworld.raspberrypi.org/ 1
TechMonkey Posted January 14, 2019 Posted January 14, 2019 (edited) Depends on what area you are talking about. Reddit is great, so there are a few subreddits I keep an eye on, such as sysadmin, K12sysadmin, netsec, networking, PowerShell, ITManagers. I try and keep an eye on youTube but find it hard to get time to watch videos. For news news, The Register is good. Ohh and I signed up for a newsletter recently called TLDR that has the news of the day, which is quite good. Has a brief intro on the news and then a link to the full article (with estimated reading time) if you wish to read more. Edited January 14, 2019 by TechMonkey 1
PotNoodleTech Posted January 14, 2019 Posted January 14, 2019 Youtube.com and Google.co.uk are really all you need.
Meldrew Posted January 14, 2019 Posted January 14, 2019 I subscribe to PC Pro which occasionally has something education specific. I keep subscribing despite the Internet being there because it generally, every edition, it brings something new that I wouldn't have even dreamed of looking up. Meldrew 1
FishCustard Posted January 14, 2019 Posted January 14, 2019 I tend to just read EduGeek - can't stand Twitter, but I can find most news here. I miss subscribing to computer magazines though to be honest - I remember when I was young reading things like PC Pro and Custom PC and being amazed at how fast things moved. I think I still have their Windows XP release special edition somewhere!
simpsonj Posted January 14, 2019 Posted January 14, 2019 I subscribe to PC Pro which occasionally has something education specific. I keep subscribing despite the Internet being there because it generally, every edition, it brings something new that I wouldn't have even dreamed of looking up. Meldrew Same here, I've found PC Pro to be an extremely useful resource over the years!
Dos_Box Posted January 14, 2019 Posted January 14, 2019 TBH, it's getting hard to find PC mags in newsagents these days. With the net providing the very latest news as it happens (I read El Reg daily too) the once great swathes of PC magazines in shops have been reduced to just a few. I do read PC Pro occasionally as they do give some great insights into technologies and software, and occasionally buy a 'bookzine' if it contains an interesting project in there. The only subscription I have is to Retro Gamer now.
jthompson Posted January 14, 2019 Posted January 14, 2019 I use Feedly for viewing a tonne of RSS feeds. It has good content discovery and gives nicely categorised suggestions for feeds, organising them into suitable topics for you. I have topics for things general tech (mainly fun consumer gadget type stuff like The Verge, etc.), security, G Suite (which brings together a number of different official Google blogs). That same stuff might all be on Twitter as well, but I've never got on with Twitter and RSS seems like a better tool for that kind of thing anyway. There's a mobile app, too, so I find myself scanning the feeds quite often.
NotSoFast Posted January 14, 2019 Posted January 14, 2019 I've cancelled my PC Pro subscription and now get it through Readly. It's a tiny bit more each month but there are loads of other mags on there (plus all the back issues) that I also read. I miss paper, but not that much.
dhicks Posted January 14, 2019 Posted January 14, 2019 Same here, I've found PC Pro to be an extremely useful resource over the years! The bi-weekly PC Pro Podcast is also worth a listen. 1
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