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This is an on-line paper entitled “Revisiting Multiliteracies in Collaborative Learning Environments: Impact on Teacher Professional Development”. As its name suggests, this article explores the role of multiliteracies in collaborative learning environments, especially its effect on the teachers. It presents quite a lot of complicated networks and websites that teachers have created for collaborative learning, most of which are new to us. Besides, issues as “the importance multiliteracies approaches to education” and “effectiveness of community-based constructivist learner collaborations” are also addressed. This article is published in 2006, and the author, Vance Stevens, is a Lecturer in Computing at Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi. He has extensive experience with courseware and course development in both stand-alone and online environments, directed at students, teachers, and teacher-trainers. He is currently "On the Internet" editor of the TESL-EJ.