La Historia del NMC Campus en Second Life

Our video on NMC and Second Life, NMC Campus: Seriously Engaging continues to be one of the most requested media items viewed on our web site. While it has been close to 2 years since we published this video, it is viewed in recently more than 700 times per month, and this does not even count where it is accessed on other sites such as YouTube, blip.tv, and Google Video. But one of the more fascinating uses of the video is on >dotSUB, a web site where visitors can annotate the movie with translations of its captions into more than 100 other languages. Since we posted Seriously Engaging on dotSUB, it has been translated completely into Interlngua, and partly into Italian, Japanese, and nearly completely into Spanish: This fits in nicely to some efforts we are making this coming year to offer many parts of the NMC web site and our publications in Spanish, and hopefully, other languages as well. But for anyone involved in teaching language, dotSUB offers great potential for creating class resources in viewing content in other languages, but better yet, perhaps activities where students can practice their skills by adding to videos in need of translation. So while we would like to see some more language captions be added to our own movie, their is a huge store of material among the other videos on the dotSUb site.