1.A.+Established+Goals

Since our primary audience for the iChat training consists of technology teachers, it is appropriate that we use the [|National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers] (commonly referred to as "NETS for Teachers") as a guide for the goals of our project. These established standards represent the collective wisdom of technology educators.

Relevant standards from [|NETS for Teachers] include:

c. promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes. d. model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments.
 * 1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity**

d. model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning.
 * 3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning**

A general restatement of the overarching goal of this project for our students (other technology teachers) is that as a result of this instruction, students will be able to select and use appropriate technologies for collaboration. (And specifically, they will understand the implications of using iChat and videoconferencing as a technology of collaboration -- how it shapes the collaboration, what it allows, what it precludes, what it inhibits, what it enables, etc., and so be able to choose when such a tool is appropriate and how it will facilitate desired learning goals.)