Latin American Studies and Other World Regions
The following sites provide additional resources for those interested in learning about the world.
Digital Library of the Caribbean
http://www.dloc.com/
The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. dLOC provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections. Collections include newspapers, photographs, archives of Caribbean leaders and governments, official historical documents, and historic and contemporary maps. Future collections will feature numeric data for local ecosystems, oral and popular histories, travel accounts, literature, and musical expressions.
Outreach World
http://www.outreachworld.org
The product of a collaboration of 120 federally-funded National Resource Centers, Outreach World is an online community that provides resources to teachers in foreign languages and international and area studies at the pre-collegiate level. The website offers a searchable database that allows educators to locate materials sorted by region, subject, country, grade level, time period, and resource type. The site also provides information on professional development and advertises opportunities for educators to travel overseas.
List of Language Resource Centers
http://nflrc.msu.edu/
The common goal of the LRCs is to promote the learning and teaching of foreign languages in the United States. The LRCs create language-learning materials, offer professional development workshops, and conduct research on foreign language learning. Presently there are fifteen Title VI Language Resource Centers nationwide.
Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs
http://www.claspprograms.org
The Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) is comprised of 50 institutions of higher education with a solid commitment to Latin American Studies. CLASP promotes all facets of Latin American Studies with an emphasis on K–12. The CLASP website provides a list of all member institutions with links to their websites, many of which provide online resources for K–12 teachers. CLASP also offers small grants to K–12 schools in support of Latin American Studies-related workshops and/or speakers.
National Resource Centers Web Portal
http://www.nrcweb.org/index.aspx
The 125 National Resource Centers throughout the United States have been established at colleges and universities with funding from the U.S. Department of Education to establish, strengthen, and operate language and area or international studies centers that will be national resources for teaching any modern foreign language.
Latin American Network Information Center
http://lanic.utexas.edu/
The Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC), sponsored by the University of Texas, facilitates access to internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America. LANIC’s editorially-reviewed directories contain over 12,000 unique URLs, one of the largest guides for Latin American content on the Internet.
Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education
http://spice.stanford.edu
The Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE) provides multi-disciplinary curriculum materials on international themes. SPICE offers free lesson plans and reasonably-priced curriculum units.
Latin American Data Base
http://ladb.unm.edu/
http://ladb.unm.edu/retanet/
The Latin American Data Base is a free forum on Latin America and Iberia hosted by the University of New Mexico. LADB produces three weekly electronic publications (Sourcemex, NotiCen, and NotiSur) and maintains an on-line searchable database of over 24,000 articles as well as Latin American journals. LADB also offers 66 free lesson plans on Latin America on its Resources for Teaching About the Americas (Retanet) web site. The Retanet project has ended, but all resources are still available.