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Eve by Chas Spain

Just Searching

January 27, 2013by connected | curriculum Leave a comment

My music composition was originally recorded in a studio in Birmingham in 1992 and attracted the attention of British dance companies, and was choreographed and performed live with an English […]

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Art, Media, Music
Search For Australia Felix

Lamenterra: Search for Australia Felix

January 23, 2013by connected | curriculum Leave a comment

I finally managed to upload a wild shoot film of a multi-disciplinary arts installation presented at the Australia Felix Arts Festival in Benalla 1995. This was probably the first all […]

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Environment, History
Beau Street Hoard

The Beau Street Hoard: the end of the excavation

December 29, 2012by connected | curriculum Leave a comment

Reblogged from British Museum blog: Julia Tubman, conservator, British Museum My last blog post recounted the excavation of bags 5 and 6 of the Beau Street hoard, which were the […]

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History, Teaching tools
Penguin on a Mission

Explorers of the World

December 3, 2012by connected | curriculum Leave a comment

Sending my pre-service teachers straight out of the lecture theatre on day one was probably a surprise for a lot of them. Their Mission? To explore, photograph, look, feel, record […]

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Environment, Systems thinking, Teaching tools
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Between Samos and Ephesus

December 2, 2012by connected | curriculum Leave a comment

The paper I presented at the International Conference on Education in Greece in 2011 on curriculum in England and Australia is now online. I presented an alternative curriculum model and […]

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Curriculum, History
The Colosseum Rome

1st Kids Conference HTAV

November 27, 2012by connected | curriculum Leave a comment

Brilliant day – maybe a world first – we asked kids to run a conference for teachers on using ICT in the history classroom at ACU today (27 November). Facilitated […]

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History, Teaching tools
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Social media in Australia

November 11, 2012by connected | curriculum Leave a comment

  Social media in Australia

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Social media, Systems thinking

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Stephen Spain is a consultant in education with a Masters of Arts (Education) from Oxford Brooks Uni, UK. He is currently based in wonderful Melbourne and working on a PhD on systems thinking and its relation to curriculum design and teaching innovations. He has lectured on history, society and environment and has presented and written internationally on curriculum design and comparative education. Stephen has a background in creative systems and arts practice. He has worked as an arts director and professional musician with gigs with the BBC and Victoria State Opera. He also spent a couple of years building a house from scratch in the UK and found returning to teaching came as a great relief!

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a project about people and their spaces

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photography inspired by films

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by: Matt George ~ Featuring great photographers, photographs, and some of Matt's work as well. ◕‿◕

Masqua's Art

ChasSpainDesign

exploring art, architecture and global design

Twenty Years From Now...

...you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain

Break Room Stories

Waiter Horror Stories and More Since 2012

SnappyJaye

My 365 day photography project

Gaizabonts

Travel, life, thoughts, ideas, wish-lists, and everything else. Thoughts, mostly.

In Ogni Senso

you don't need eyes to see, you need vision

clotildajamcracker

The wacky stories of a crazy lady.

Canadian Hiking Photography

To Be Aware

It's all about disbelieving your thoughts

Sappho's Torque

blog of Angélique Jamail, Author

The Thesis Whisperer

Just like the horse whisperer - but with more pages

British Museum blog

Classroom as Microcosm

Siobhan Curious Says: Teachers are People Too

Dan Ariely

My Irrational Life

A year of reading the world

196 countries, countless stories...

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