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Students and faculty use the Internet to gather and share knowledge now more than ever. Law professors at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, for example, have conducted mock trials in the online environment of Second Life; law students have worked with faculty to offer cybercourses to the public at large. Students can collaborate on “wiki” websites, gather research materials from far-flung countries, and create multi-media projects to enhance their learning...
...Jonathan L. Zittrain, the Berkman visiting professor for entrepreneurial legal studies at the Law School, cautioned that the University could make access to such material conditional on not making it publicly available...
...With such possibilities, Second Life fosters unusual creativeness. Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson ’60 even created “Berkman Island” in Second Life to broadcast an extension school class he teaches on internet...
...David Blackbourn, Professor of Astronomy Alyssa A. Goodman, Freed Professor of Economics Caroline M. Hoxby ’88, Physics Department Chair John E. Huth, Environmental Science and Public Policy Chair James J. McCarthy, Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel, Smith Professor of Computer Science Margo I. Seltzer, Berkman Professor of Psychology Elizabeth S. Spelke, and Professor of Greek and Latin Richard F. Thomas. Seltzer, Spelke, and Thomas are currently on leave.At the close of yesterday’s Faculty meeting, retiring University Library chief Sidney Verba ’53 discussed Harvard’s collaboration with Google...
...Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson ’60, founder of the Berkman Center for Law and Society and a blogger himself, said last week that he enjoys the blog’s democratic spirit...