On March 28–29, 2008, thirty-six persons associated with the educational technology initiatives in their respective seminaries and theological institutes met in Tampa, Florida, to share with one another in three, five-minute presentations (available online at http://www.kenrickparish.com/atsedtech/) one thing they were currently doing to advance the use of appropriate technologies in their teaching and learning environments. Charles Willard, then director, accreditation and institutional evaluation, organized the conference for two purposes—one was to foster collegiality among those involved in this kind of work, and the other was to name a steering committee that would serve as the nucleus for a technology in theological education affinity group at The Association of Theological Schools.

On March 29, 2008, the steering committee was formed and including ten persons as follows: Sebastian Mahfood (chair), Tony Cook, Brian Eastman, Jay Endicott, John Kahler, Alice Loddigs, Julie Lytle, Michael Porterfield, Myrna Sears, and Kris Veldheer. Over time, the composition of the group changed with the loss of Tony, Brian, Jay, and Alice, and the additions by the June of 2010 of the following persons: Deborah Creamer (February 2009), Eileen Daily (March 2009), John Klinger (September 2009), Phyllis Ennist (June 2010), and Paul Tippey (June 2010).

Since its founding in March 2008, the Technology in Theological Education Group (TTEG) has successfully accomplished the following projects:

1. The establishment and development of a social networking site at http://atsedtech.ning.com through which the activities of 100+ members can be coordinated and collegiality among them can be promoted
   
2. The establishment of a home base on www.ats.edu that can be found through our organizational link at http://www.tteg.org
   
3. The development of a document originally prepared by Vic Klimoski in 2005 concerning technical changes the ATS Board of Commissioners might incorporate into the general institution standards. The modified form of the document was completed in December of 2008 and submitted by Sebastian Mahfood to then Director of Accreditation and Institutional Evaluation, Jeremiah McCarthy. The document entered the standards revision working committee and was used as the basis for the technical changes integrated throughout the general institution standards. These changes were approved unanimously with little modification at the 2010 ATS Biennial Meeting.
   
4. The development of two international webinars on the topic of spiritual formation in cyberspace in the spring of 2009 and 2010 led by Greg Bourgond of Bethel Seminary and titled “Virtual Formation—Fact or Fiction?” and Eileen Daily of Loyola University titled “Virtual Incarnations: Community Interaction in Cyberspace,” respectively.
   
5. The insertion into Colloquy of a section for TTEG and the publication of articles by members of the steering committee, which include “Tertullian meets technology: Online communities and the ecology of formation,” by Julie Lytle, Colloquy 17, no. 2 (spring 2009), “Technology integration in education: The faculty connection” by Jay Endicott, Colloquy 18, no. 1 (fall 2009), and “YouTube killed the theologian: Web 2.0 in theological education,” by Michael Porterfield, Colloquy 18, no. 2 (spring 2010).
   
6. The development of a joint face-to-face conference with the ATS chief financial officers scheduled in Orlando, Florida, on November 18–20, 2010, following a one-person embassy led by Sebastian Mahfood to the November 2009 CFO workshop in Scottsdale, Arizaon, to coordinate a plan for a joint conference.