************************************************************** Net Happenings - From Educational CyberPlayGround ************************************************************** ************************************************** COALITION FOR SELF-LEARNING ************************************************** Mission Statement: The Coalition for Self-Learning envisions and co-creates a world of cooperative life-long learning communities. Composition: The Coalition is a matrix of individuals and groups, networking freely and acting in concert in mutual support of the Mission Statement. Principles and Goals: (1) Life-long learning communities are diverse, open places where individuals develop meaningful ways to enhance, enrich, honor and celebrate each other, families, communities and society, acting as a significant element in an emerging cooperative commonwealth. (2) The Coalition promotes ideas and actions for creating learning communities. (3) The Coalition expands and advances the relevance of learning to societal change. (4) The Coalition explores, develops, disseminates and implements new concepts for organizational systems that result in the equitable sharing of power and wealth, well-being and self-sustaining conviviality of the Earth and all its life forms. (5) The Coalition demonstrates that the Internet is a powerful tool for organizing actions, learning creative concepts and engaging constructive discussion. Tools: To aid the Mission of the Coalition, we have developed the following tools : Creating Learning Communities Website: www.creatinglearningcommunities.org/ Discussion Lists: www.onelist.com/community/LearningCommunities for Concepts and www.onelist.com/community/CCL-LLCs for Strategy. Books available: "Creating Learning Communities" ($21.95 or online) - Guidebook for Creating Learning Communities ($4.00) http://www.creatinglearningcommunities.org/book/book.htm Learning Cooperatives Quarterly: http://www.creatinglearningcommunities.org/newsletter/index.html ************************************************************** The Net Happenings mailing list is a service of Educational CyberPlayGround - http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ ************************************************************** Linking and Announcements For Net Happenings are provided by http://www.EricWard.com and http://www.URLwire.com ************************************************************** If you have any questions, concerns, suggestions, or would like to sponsor the Net Happenings service - <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/Subguidelines.html> Subscribe | Unsubscribe | Change Email Preferences - <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/NetHappenings.html> **************************************************************