Ken Loach Films online
The great director Ken Loach has uploaded many of his films, a wonderful resource.
Where this material came from, sources of inspiration and information.
Chouseisan
I learned about this tool from Shimpei Ogawa.
In addition to being very useful for scheduling a meeting, or people's work schedules, it can be used for accountability in group work -- making a list of tasks and having the group members identify which ones they will do. You can easily visualize how well the group is distributing tasks.
Cooperativists for a Democratic Cooperative?
One of the many interesting sources I have read in the Masters in Social Economy and Cooperative Management at Mondragon University. In these slides you see a frank critique of the evolution of cooperative ideology in the Mondragon Cooperative Experience. The practice of critical self-reflection within Mondragon is a real strength, even as they lament the failure to maintain cooperative values and strategies for social transformation.
http://www.slideshare.net/audaondo/evolucin-del-sentido-de-la-ecm-39801812
Interesting Resource: The Pedagogy Project
This looks interesting -- I will definitely be checking it out.
Another great online history source: American Social History Project
The American Social History Project is a rich source of material and teaching ideas/tools. "American" here means USA, mostly, but the building of "America" is one of the themes they explore well.
I still meet people who got their labor history through Labor's Untold Story or their alternative US history through Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States, but haven't read Who Built America?, which, in my opinion is much better.
A great resource online for free
How great to have this labor and social history teaching resource online for free. I hope others will add new lessons and comments. I still recall the time I did the Organic Goodie activity with IBEW apprentices -- a huge guy finally stood up and seized "the machine", holding it high above his head (far out of my reach). The question: what to do next?
Acknowledgements (in progress)
I wish I could lay claim to all the content of this handbook. Most of it is my own, but nearly all of the activities in this book have roots in other people's work and ideas. I expect that you too will find that the real "value added" will come when you adapt this material for your own uses.
Robert's Rules of Order, Revised
The text, in the public domain. One good look should convince you of the virtue of simplified rules of order.
The Official Robert's Rules of Order Website
Like it says. With FAQs and a question and answer forum.
Ten Points for Union Meetings
The classic easy-to-use guide to the basics of meeting procedures. Print it out and hand it to your coworkers.
