Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society, will be the keynote speaker at the 2008 Penn State Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology.
The free event will be held March 29, 2008 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, University Park. This year's theme is "The Collaborative Campus and the Culture of Teaching and Learning."
Lessig is the author of Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, The Future of Ideas, and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. He chairs the Creative Commons project, and serves on the board of the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Public Library of Science, and Public Knowledge. He is also a columnist for Wired. For more information on Lessig and his work, see http://symposium.tlt.psu.edu/keynote/.
A continental breakfast and lunch will be provided. For more details and to register, visit http://symposium.tlt.psu.edu/. The Symposium is sponsored by Teaching and Learning with Technology, a unit of Information Technology Services.