Vocabulario útil 2, Actividad 6:

El Corte Inglés: The Corte Inglés (literally, "The English Cut/Style") is Spain's largest department store. Their website allows you to make online purchases, chat live with a customer assistance person, and see a complete listing of the locations of Corte Inglés stores throughout Spain. Clicking on the green pennant labeled El Corte Inglés will take you back to the home page at any time.

Vocabulario útil 2, Actividad 9:

1. Universidad Virtual del Sistema Tecnológico de Monterrey (México): The Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) offers online courses through its Universidad Virtual as well as traditional courses at its campus in Monterrey. As one would expect for a technological institute, the website is well designed and easy to use.
   
   
2. Universidad Virtual Anáhuac (México): This virtual university is run in conjunction with a number of local universities in Mexico, including the Universidad de Anáhuac Poniente, the Universidad Anáhuac del Sur, the Universidad del Mayab, and the Universidad de Xalapa. It offers a wide variety of online courses in a number of areas. Overall, it is a well-designed and easy-to-access website.
   
   
3. Federación Educación a Distancia de la República de Argentina: This website offers courses in a variety of areas and is affiliated with a large number of institutions, both in Argentina and throughout the world. The website, which is run by the organization out of Buenos Aires, includes a virtual library, online consulting, and a chat room.
   
   
4. Universidad Virtual de Quilmes (Argentina): The Universidad Nacional de Quilmes runs this website, which provides degrees in a variety of subjects. The virtual university was initiated in 1999, and since then more than 3,000 students have gained undergraduate and graduate degrees there.
   
   
5. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (España): This Spanish website offers virtual courses in a wide variety of areas. In addition, this comprehensive website includes information about scholarships, videoconferencing, web searches, and technical assistance.
   
   
6. Escuela Superior de Educación Interactiva (España): This organization, known as ESAC, is a private educational institution that was created in 1998, and in the year 2000 became a part of the Afternet ICG group. It offers online courses in professional development in technology-related areas, in addition to courses at its Madrid location.

Voces de la comunidad

Manuel Castells: Visit this site to watch an interview with Manuel Castells. Listen to it all the way to the end to get Castells's important advice to students about how to prepare for life in the 21st century.

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Lodging:

Yahoo.es.com: Hoteles: Yahoo is probably the most comprehensive Spanish-language search engine. (Others include www.terra.com and www.yupi.com.) Yahoo offers information by country, city, and area of interest within those categories. This page is their master list of hotels in Sevilla, Spain.

Entertainment/museums and other sites:

Yahoo.es.com: Arte y ocio: This page contains a master list of activities for Sevilla that fall under the category of arte y ocio (leisure time). Going to a root source like this allows you to search from a wide variety of options.

Where to eat:

Yahoo.es.com: Restaurantes: This page is a subcategory under the Yahoo Sevilla Arte y ocio category listed above. In addition, you can use the Yahoo search feature (Buscar) to type in the words Sevilla+restaurantes if you want to do a customized search.