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Technology plays an ever-increasing role in modern education. Over the last five years we have seen the development of National Educational Technology Standards for pre-service teachers and the U.S. Department of Education's Preparing Tomorrows Teachers Today grants to provide technology development for educators. (Sloinski, 2001) This has been followed with an emergence of teacher education committees and policies in organizations throughout the world. The article reviewed makes the correlation between Educators engaging in Web-based collaboration and the development of subsequent, future professional practices. Sloinski (2001) “believed that pre-service teachers would benefit from participating in Web-based professional collaboration, which in turn would lead to more student-centered and more innovative instruction.” One might ask, why this is an important issue? When the economic impact of technology is broken down, the importance of teacher acquisition of related skills will only continue to become more