Category: Digital life

Drawing #mindset #grit #resilience #flow #learning

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on February 4, 2017

I cannot draw. This has been my mindset since about 8 years of age. Aged 48, I now understand how it came to be that […]

Posted in Digital life, Education | Tagged Adobe Sketch, art, drawing, flow, grit, iPad, learning, mindset, resilience, teaching, writing | 10 Comments

In the bag & pocketses #techtools #edutech #mobile

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on September 23, 2016

Thinking back over the last five years about tech tools that have been in my bag or pocket there are some proven stayers and some […]

Posted in Digital life, Education, Photography | Tagged Adobe Lightroom, audible, facebook, Feedly, Fitbit, flickr, iPhone6, Jorno, Kindle, Leef iBridge, Macbook pro, skype, Topaz, Twitter, Ulysses, Weebly, yammer | 1 Comment

NSW Premier’s Teacher Scholarship Study Tour: New York #1

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on May 7, 2016

“No one should come to New York…unless he is willing to be lucky.” […]

Posted in Digital life, Education, Professional development, Travel | Tagged "BIG HISTORY", citizen science, DNA, NSW Premier's Teaching Scholarship, PTS | 2 Comments

My #reading April 2016

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on April 23, 2016

Every day I work on the edit of my book. I slog away, shifting chunks of material and moving them back, eating my salad in […]

Posted in Digital life, Featured | Tagged Alan Moorehead, Barry Cunliffe, Craig McGregor, CS Lewis, Douglas Rushkoff, Helen Garner, Jeff Jarvis, JRR Tolkien, Orwell, reading, reading in 2016, Thomas Piketty, Thornton McCamish | 1 Comment

Workflow & Writing: Ulysses

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on April 18, 2016

Write. Anything. Anywhere. My daily writing routines are improving and Ulysses has quickly become an everyday tool. The very effective slogan tells you why. One still needs to actually […]

Posted in Digital life, Featured | Tagged Scrivener, Ulysses, workflow, writing | 3 Comments

Mobile Storytelling and Documentary Filmmaking

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on March 27, 2016

Documentary Australia Foundation (DAF) is Australia’s only independent, non-profit initiative bringing philanthropists and filmmakers together to create social change. Storytelling has an undeniable power to […]

Posted in Digital life, Education, Photography | Tagged Adobe Premier Clip, documentary, iOgrapher, iPhone, iPhone 6, iPhoneography, mobile, Olloclip, videography | 2 Comments

Some reflective thoughts about social reading…

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on March 6, 2016

We read to know we are not alone. SOURCE I have recently purchased a new Kindle e-reader. You can click on that last link and […]

Posted in Digital life, Popular culture | Tagged Amazon, goodreads, Kindle, kobo, librify, reading, social reading | 1 Comment

#BYOD Tool: WordsEye

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on November 30, 2015

“WordsEye is cutting-edge technology that works by parsing text input into a semantic representation which is then rendered as a 3D scene. This process relies […]

Posted in Digital life, Education, Professional development | Tagged BYOD, BYOD tools, English, wordseye, writing | 1 Comment

#BYOD Tool: Google’s “About Me”

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on November 18, 2015

Google has launched a new service which purports to allow users to control their online information. Their new About me page lists information such as work […]

Posted in Digital life, Education | Tagged About Me, BYOD, BYOD tools, digital citizenship, digital footprints | Leave a Comment

Where do you get your books?

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on November 8, 2015

I haven’t analysed how much money I spend proportionally on hardcover, paperback, audio or ebooks each year but know it is not as predicted several […]

Posted in Digital life | Tagged Amazon, audible, audiobooks, eBooks, hardcover, Kindle, kobo, paperback, reading | 9 Comments

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The #Orwell quote from The Lion and the Unicorn was worthy of a run: "A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase" in The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class nyti.ms/2RWEZsY #brexit

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The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class nyti.ms/2RWEZsY and I do wonder if @aroberts_andrew would describe himself as a "right wing historian"?

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MIT, Stanford professors are designing a cryptocurrency to top Bitcoin fortune.com/2019/01/… ping @Downes

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In Time (2011) by Andrew Niccol is not a futuristic dystopia but informed contemporary economic analysis. Discuss. pic.twitter.com/nOBf…

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The rest of the quote: "In order to fit into these organisations, individuals have had to deindividualise themselves, have had to deny their native diversity and conform to a standard pattern, have had to their best to become automata." twitter.com/Darcy196…

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Aldous Huxley sagely wrote: "Too much organisation transforms men and women into automata, suffocates the creative spirit and abolishes the very possibility of freedom ..." #managerialism twitter.com/sdinhamu…

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