What's New Archives: August 2001
August 31, 2001
The following links have been added to the
Religion & Theology page:
Bolivia (new category)
- Conferencia Episcopal de Bolivia
- Christ of the Tears
- Diocese of La Paz
- La Misión Bolivia - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints
Brazil
- Jesuit Missions of the Guarani
El Salvador
- CREES - Corporación Renacer del Salvador
Paraguay (new category)
- Catholic Encyclopedia - Paraguay
- Learning Guide to "The Mission"- Teach with Movies
- Music from the Jesuit Reductions
- Paradoxical Paraguay - The Mennonites in Paraguay
- Reductions of Paraguay
- The Relationship Between Catholics and Mennonites in the Chaco -
Mennonite World Conference
Latin American Resources
- Church of the Nazarene - Mexico and Central America
- Church of the Nazarene - South America
International Resources
- Salt of the Earth - Your online resource for social justice
- World Religions and Cultures
Missionary & Volunteer Groups
August 29, 2001
The following new links have been added to the Belize page:
Academic Research Resources
- Belize Biodiversity Information System
- Belize Foundation for Research and Environmental Education, BFREE
- Field Schools in Belize
- Moths of Belize
- Society for the Promotion of Education and Research, SPEAR
- University of Belize Student Government
Business & Economy
- Belize Tourism Industry Association
Political Parties & Elections
- Belize Elections & Boundaries Department
- The People's United Party
Sustainable Development
- Coastal Treasures of Belize
- Coastal Zone Management Authority and Institute
- Following the Path of the Rain Gods, Watershed field course
- Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme Belize GEF/SGP,
UNDP
- Protected Areas Conservation Trust PACT
Travel & Tourism
- Belize Report
- Belize: A Virtual Tour
- The Belize Zoo
- Belizean Journeys
- Coastal Treasures of Belize
August 23, 2001
- New resources have been added to the Environment page:
- Argentina:
- EcoSolidariedade
- Fundación Biosfera
- Brazil: Fundação Vitória Amazônica
- Costa Rica: APREFLOFAS
- El Salvador: SalvaNatura
- Peru: Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana
- Regional Resources: Biodiversidad en América Latina
- International Resources: Association for Progressive
Communications
- There are also new resources on the Higher Education page:
- Universia, in Chile and Puerto Rico
- ENLACE, Engaging Latino Communities for Education, under Regional
Resources
- HispanicScholarship, under Scholarship & Grant Information
- And on LANIC's Language Programs
page:
- The categories Chile, the Dominican Republic, and
Peru have been added to this page.
- Brazil/Portuguese:
- Spanish:
- Argentum
- Casa de Lenguas, Argentina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala,
& Peru
- Centro Bilingue de Chiapas, Mexico
- Centro Panamericano de Idiomas
- Cetlalic, Mexico
- Excel Spanish Language Centre, Peru
- International Center for Cultural and Language Studies, Mexico
- Latin American Southern Cone Programs in Argentina, Chile, & Ecuador
- Latin Immersion Language Network, programs in Argentina, Chile,
Ecuador, & Spain
- Spanish Abroad, with programs in ten Latin American countries
- Spanish Language School, Mexico
- Spanish Language Schools in Spain and Latin America, in nine Latin
American countries
- University Studies Abroad Consortium in Chile & Costa Rica
- Directories: Spanish Language Schools on the World Wide Web
- International Resources:
- Rotary International Programs
- Youth for Understanding International Exchange
August 20, 2001
- New links added to the Health page:
- Argentina
- FUNDALEU Fundación para combatir la leucemia
- Regional Resources
- Research on health sector reform policies in Latin America: Regional
initiatives
and state of the art. March 2001
- International Resources
- Health Library for Disasters
- New Links added to the Libraries page:
- OCLC Latin America & the Caribbean
- New links added to the Publishers page:
- Acqweb's directory of publishers and vendors
- New links added to the Reference
page:
- Citation guides
- Citation guides for electronic documents - IFLA
- Internet citation guides - University of Wisconsin Memorial Library
- Resources for documenting electronic sources - Purdue University
Online Writing Lab
- Dictionaries, Lexicons, Thesauri & Vocabularies - Guides
- Medline Plus. Links to medical dictionaries. U.S. National Library of
Medicine
- Directories by country
- Páginas Amarillas (Argentina)
- Time & Calendars
- tyzo.com - World public holidays database
August 17, 2001
LANIC is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with
the prestigious Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales,
(FLACSO) to host nine of the insitution's data bases on LANIC
servers. The data bases house thousands of records related to FLACSO
activities in the areas of Research, Academic Programs, and Publications.
A directory of FLACSO-affiliated researchers and professors is also
included. All data bases can be searched by full text or by keyword. The
user interface, as well as the data base records, are in Spanish. You may
access the data bases by following the link to FLACSO-Bases de
Datos in the "On Lanic" sidebar on our Home Page.
August 16, 2001
August 14, 2001
As promised, the Primary & Secondary
Education has been expanded and some of the categories have changed,
but, as always, your suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Don't
forget, Hispanic Heritage Month begins September 15!
On other pages:
- Bolivia has the following new resources:
- General: Worldwide Directory of Cities and Towns
- News: Correo del Sur
- Portals, Directories, & Search Sites: ZNET Latin America
Watch Bolivia Page
- The Food page also has new links:
- Brazil: Cook Brazil
- Colombia: Recetas de Lila Ochoa
- Regional Resources: Sólo Vegetales
- On the Human Rights page, you can
now find the following:
- Instituto Interamericano del Niño, of the OAS
- Justiça Global, from Brazil
- Popular Organizations in Haiti
August 13, 2001
A recent drought affected Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and
Nicaragua, generating a serious food shortage in the area. Please take a
look at the updated information in our Newsroom.
- New links added to the Anthropology
and Archaeology page:
- In the Argentina area:
- Ciudad Virtual de Antropología y Arqueología
- In theChile section:
- In the Mexico area:
- Aztecas: El Pueblo del Sol
- Dioses del México Antiguo
- Ipan Tepeme Ihuan Oztome: High Mountain Archaeology
- Mexicas Page
- Quetzalcoatl Web
- Teotihuacan
- In the new Publications and Journals area:
- Actualidades Arqueológicas: Mexico
- Andean Past
- Arqueología Mexicana
- Arqueo Web
- Relaciones: Human Sciences
- La Salamandra: Revista de Antropología y Cultura
- In the Other Countries area:
- Centro de Investigación de Arte Rupestre de Uruguay
- In the Regional Resources area:
- Arqueohispania
- Expeditions: Smithsonian Anthropology and Latin America
- In the General area:
- Anthropology in the News: at Texas A & M
August 10, 2001
- New links added to the Anthropology
and Archaeology page:
- In theArgentina section:
- Asociación de Antropología Biológica de la
República Argentina: AABRA
- In the Mexico area:
- Asociación Mexicana de Antropología Biológica,
A. C.: AMAB
- Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia
- Seminario de Códices Mexicanos
- Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología: SMA
- In the Regional Resources area:
- Asociación Latinoamericana de Antropología Biológica
(ALAB)
- Asociación European of Mayistas
- Funcación Para la Investigación Bioantropológica
August 7, 2001
- New links added to the Argentina page:
- Academic & Research Resources
- Academia Nacional de la Historia
- Government
- COMFER Comité Federal de Radiodifusión
- Organizations
- Asociación de Abogados de Buenos Aires
- New links added to the Health page:
- Dominican Republic
- Secretaría de Estado de Salud Pública y Asistencia Social
- New Subject Areas
- AIDS
- Acción Ciudadana Contra el SIDA (ACCSI). Venezuela
- Consejo Latinoamericano y del Caribe de ONGs con servicio en VIH/SIDA
(LACCASO)
- Corporación de Lucha contra el SIDA. Colombia
- HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean. UNAIDS fact sheet,
December 2000
- PASCA Proyecto Acción Sida de Centroamérica
- SIDALAC Iniciativa regional sobre sida para América Latina y
el Caribe
- UNAIDS United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
- Cancer
- Cancer Genome Anatomy Project
- CancerIndex. Guide to Internet resources for cancer
- International Agency for Research on Cancer. World Health
Organization
- International Association of Cancer Registries
- International Union Against Cancer UICC
- National Cancer Institute. United States
- New links added to the Publishers page:
- Argentina
- Colombia
- Editorial Universidad de Antioquía
- Just in time for the new school year, many new resources have been
added to the Primary & Secondary
Education page! In the next few weeks, some categories will be
added and links will be moved in an effort to make each category
smaller, more descriptive, and easier to use. We will also be looking for
more country-specific resources. Your suggestions would be very much
appreciated! Check back often, and in the meantime, have a look at some
of
these new resources:
- A new category, Puerto Rico, has been added.
- Latin American Resources:
- PequeNet
- Rainforest Education Project
- Colombia:
- Biblioteca Familiar Colombiana
- Sólo para Niños
- Honduras: Destination: Honduras, by the Peace Corps
- Peru:
- The Glory and Future of Peru's Manu Rainforest
- Peru's Roads and Rainforests
- Language Instruction & Research:
- BBC Spanish
- Casa de Joanna
- Little Explorers English-Portuguese Picture Dictionary
- Little Explorers English-Spanish Picture Dictionary
- Ñandutí, Early Foreign Language Learning
- Portuguese Tongue Twisters
- El Sabor del Caribe/A Taste of the Caribbean
- Spanish Flashcards
- Spanish Tongue Twisters
- Understanding Hispanic/Latino Culture and History Through the Use of
Children's Literature
- International Resources:
- CountryWatch
- Electronic Embassy
- Explorers
- Fact Monster
- Flags of the World & Colouring Book of Flags
- Greatest Places
- Immigration
- Improving Education for Immigrant Students
- Lonely Planet Destinations
- Outline Maps
- Teacher Vision
- World Factbook 2000
August 1, 2001
- On the Brazil page:
- Environment: Esgoto é Vida
- General: Worldwide Directory of Cities and Towns
- Health:
- Tio Julião, O Amigo do Diabético
- Fundação Nacional da Saúde
- Human Rights, Citizenship, & Social Justice: Conselho da
Comunidade Solidária
- News & Newspapers: Agência Nordeste
- State & Municipal Resources:
- Minas Gerais: Projeto Cidades
- Travel & Tourism:
- City Brazil
- A Resources by State subcategory has been added.
- On the Environment page:
- Brazil:
- Panama: Fundación Dobbo Yala
- International Resources: World Rainforest Movement
- Immigration:
- Several categories have been added: Education, Human Rights &
Social Assistance, Labor, and Law
- Academic & Research Resources:
- Immigrant Education
- Language Policy Web Site & Emporium
- Urban Institute Research on Immigration
- Publications & Documentaries:
- La Ciudad
- mmigrants: Stories and Photos by David Bacon
- Indigenous Peoples:
- Latin American Resources:
- Plataforma de Información del Pueblo Indio
- Red Indíena
- Three new categories, Colombia, Guyana, and Trinidad and
Tobago, have been added.
- Ecuador: Dirección Nacional de Educación
Intercultural Bilingüe
- Mexico: ZNet Chiapas/Zapatista Crisis Page
- Other Countries:
- Amerindians of French Guiana
- Amerindians of Suriname
- Amerindians of Venezuela
- Dominican Republic Research Project
- Orinoco
- Tribal Communities of Suriname
- Mapuche:
- Fundación Instituto Indígena
- Mapuche Interest Page
- Portals, Directories & Search Sites: Red de
Información Indígena
- International Resources:
- doCip, Indigenous Peoples' Center for Documentation, Research and
Information
- Mapahumano de Etnias, Pueblos y Culturas
- United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Primary & Secondary Education:
- Latin American Resources:
- Academias e Institutos Hispanoparlantes de Enseñanza No-oficial
- Central/South American History Web Sites for K-12 Teachers
- Colegios Hispanoparlantes en Hispanoamérica
- Conquistadores
- Contexto Educativo
- Films/Teaching Resources/Geography
- Historical Text Archive
- Latin America Brooklyn Expedition
-
Argentina:
- Colegios Registrados en Argentina
- Educ.ar
- La Letra Azul
- Programa Nacional Escuela y Comunidad
- Brazil:
- Biblioteca Virtual do Estudante Brasileiro
- Divertudo
- Chile: Cide, Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de la
Educación
- Colombia:
- Mexico:
- Food for the Ancestors
- México para Niños
- Observatorio Ciudadano de la Educación
- Peru:
- Colegios
- Colegios del Perú
- Tarea, Asociación de Publicaciones Educativas
- A new category, Language Instruction & Research, has been
added.
- International Resources:
- American Memory Learning Page
- Bigchalk
- Coleman's Website for Hispanists
- EspañOlé
- Intercultural E-mail Classroom Connections
- Multicultural Education
- Lugares en Español para Niños
- Nueva Alejandría, el Portal de los Educadores Hispanoparlantes
- Teaching.com
- ThinkQuest
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