Partnership, Grant Infuse Technology — and Twain — in the Classroom

January 22, 2001

Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn knew rafting the Mississippi, not surfing the Web.

But a new collaboration by educators at North Carolina State University and the University of Virginia is using technology — in this case, historical archives posted on the Web — to help bring the life and times of Mark Twain and his characters to life for students today.