The Federal No Child Left Behind legislation has changed the landscape of K-12 public education and has uniquely impacted the rural practitioner, compounding challenges for teachers who already face a lack of proximity to higher education, limited collegial networks and a lack of teaching resources (Pitler, 2005). In an effort to provide professional development for the widely distributed and unique public school educator, the United States Department of Education (USDOE) has created the Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative http://www.paec.org/teacher2teacher (USDOE, 2005). The Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative is designed to assist the nation’s teachers through workshops, summits and electronic resources (USDOE, 2005). As a tool for professional development, web based seminars and archives have gained recent popularity for their use as asynchronous training and review tools. The ambitious multimillion dollar effort by the USDOE is one part of this larger community of web based training