he Teaching + Technology Initiative explores the interaction and collaboration of students with their professors, in projects that link traditional teaching methods with innovative uses of technology in the lab and in the classroom. In each project, different techniques and methods are investigated to determine the best possible use of technology within the context of the particular course and within the realm of what is currently available.

Involved...
"The project has encouraged me to use a much broader range of sources in the classroom, many of them primary sources, normally available only in archives or in limited access." - Brian Balogh

Collaborative...
"In the future, I would like to see professors in common disciplines around the country having more opportunity to collaborate and share materials."
- Kirk Martini

Interactive...
"Teachers either have to work with the technology directly or with the people who are developing the technology to mold these tools so they really can benefit the students." - Janet Horne
Engaged...
"It's very exciting because technologies that were once confined to research labs in major universities can now be accessed by anybody who has a computer and opens up a Web page. Bringing that information to large numbers of students requires an additional investment of time and effort, and that's what we're doing. It's a really interesting adventure." - Charles Grisham

The possibilities for the future of TTI are limitless. Channels of communication widen as students and teachers find new possibilities. Benjamin Ray says, "I was participating with the students in the lab sessions, too-teacher as learner. It was reassuring and reinforcing for the students that their teacher was at their level of learning and taking on the challenge with them."

According to John Alexander, Manager of Instructional Technology, "The kinds of projects that will come from a nationally ranked faculty such as we have here at the University of Virginia are going to continue to be exciting; there is going to be innovation. There will be new ideas, new approaches." Kathryn Rohe sums up as she says, "The potential is limitless; there are numerous ways to use technology. Implementing those ways is another question." The implementation of the technology is where the Teaching + Technology Initiative plays the key role of facilitating, supporting, and guiding the work of its Fellows.