Paul Baker

Teacher; Head of Computing & Digital Strategy, Cambridge. Education & EdTech digital ramblings; all views are my own.

[Christel House India @_CH_India]

A proud milestone for Christel House India! We’ve expanded our Bangalore school by 50%, welcoming 70 new students in KG & Grade 1. Soon, we’ll be serving nearly 1,400 students and their families at full capacity. Thank you for supporting us!

[Paul Baker @p_d_baker]

Christel House's Big Give Challenge: https://t.co/TYyULyRt6x. All donations will be doubled up by our match donor between now and 10 December until we reach our target of £25k. Please consider donating and sharing to help an amazing charity. https://t.co/e02ns2jn3h

[Paul Baker @p_d_baker]

The Perse School, Cambridge is now advertising for Head of Computer Science. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity to join an amazing school and lead a thriving department. https://t.co/C75j7k3EaR

[Paul Baker @p_d_baker]

@mtholfsen @MicrosoftEDU Thanks Mike; might this change - after all Clipchamp is an Office 365 app right so why not on O365 A3/A5? Lots of schools & students will miss out otherwise.

[Paul Baker @p_d_baker]

@mtholfsen @MicrosoftEDU, I was looking forward to having our students use Clipchamp this year but apparently it isn't included on the Office 365 A3 edu licence, only the Microsoft A3 licence despite being an Office 365 app. Can this be resolved please?

[Paul Baker @p_d_baker]

Want to find out more about our Perse team coding challenge for schools? Take a look at our new intro video: https://t.co/dZfnkNsXMu

[Paul Baker @p_d_baker]

@mberry @bphillipsonMP Partly agree. CS at GCSE is now rigorous, academic and valued. It also attracts girls fine where well taught and well promoted. Entry growth is also high. Let's not lose that progress. But yes, more than CS to computing: a compulsory ICT element to a reformed GCSE baccalaureate??

[Paul Baker @p_d_baker]

@msonenote If fixing the page size to A4 this should allow you to continue vertically (onto a second page) just not horizontally. Also adding a 'Paste Special' ... E.g. a printed document page can't be rotated and you can't copy and paste special as image either so that you could rotate.

[Paul Baker @p_d_baker]

@msonenote Thanks for replying. Ah yes that feature is useful but not the same issue. The page has to remain 🔓 so students can complete the task however you don't want them changing the name of the page or dragging it to a new section because then the review tool can't find their page.

[Paul Baker @p_d_baker]

@msonenote Best of all would be more consistency across the O365 products for pen tools / shape tools. I often find myself having to do something with draw/pen/shapes in PowerPoint and then copy it over to onenote because OneNote's draw tools are more limited: can't they be the same?

[Paul Baker @p_d_baker]

@msonenote Cropping images and other image editing tools present in word, PowerPoint and excel please.

[Mike Tholfsen @mtholfsen]

A nice #OneNote inking update ✍️ #mieexpert #edtech

[Matt Enlow @CmonMattTHINK]

The first two hundred factorials.
What do you notice?
What do you wonder?

[Paul Baker @p_d_baker]

@msonenote Please please a proper treeview control for books/sections with contract all/expand buttons

[Paul Baker @p_d_baker]

@powerpoint Add sandboxed animation scripting (e.g. OfficeScript) for fine control of animations and slide elements at presentation time: better suited to interactive education activities/demos.

[Paul Baker @p_d_baker]

@SourishS17 Yes, whoops, that one!

[Paul Baker @p_d_baker]

More amazing year-on-year growth (13%) for entries into our PCTC team coding challenge. In the R1 pair-format, assuming all entries were paired, some 8500 students took part - really exciting, well done to all & good luck to R2 qualifiers! https://t.co/AVCntAgX7F.

[Paul Baker @p_d_baker]

@msonenote Deeply enjoyable: when I'm sketching a straight line with my pen and I hold it down and onenote straightens it.

[Paul Baker @p_d_baker]

We are currently recruiting for a teacher of Computer Science, at the Perse School, Cambridge (https://t.co/C75j7k3EaR), closing March 1st. Looking for a dynamic, talented person to join our departmental team of six: https://t.co/9P6oU9txj6, applications close March 1st.