In this paper, the author investigates the pedagogical opportunities offered by new technology, particularly geared toward the building of corpora. Acknowledging the growing significance of corpus creation and analysis in language-related disciplines and the value of using textual corpora as a translation resource, Bowker suggests an innovation to the pedagogical approach known as corpora-based translation instruction. She is in favor of a collaborative approach to corpora building that allows students to build a corpus in the translation classroom. In order to demonstrate the viability of this proposal, she describes several experiments conducted in the building of targeted textual corpora related to the subject of computing. The article is concluded with some reflections on the suitability of the Internet as a resource for building translation corpora.