I am Jurgita Jankauskait, a fourth year informology student of Vilnius University, Department of communication.

I am doing a research about the sucessful management of virtual project teams. I would like o ask you to answer the questions, if you please. I am very thankful to you beforehand. Mark the suitable answer. Dear Jurgita, I have not participated in a totally virtual project, but some of my projects had virtual aspects. Therefore, I answer your questions under these circumstances and in some matters, I will mark more than one answer. Regards Mustafa YAVUZ, Teacher of Biology, Isparta, Turkey, mustafay007@gmail.com 1. Give a short description of the virtual Project you work with: o The main goals of he Project o When was it carried out? o Was it a short term or a long term project? (underline) 2. What was your role in the project? o Team leader o A member of the team 3. Project was together with: o Partners from your country o Partners from foreign countries X

4. How many people were in the team? (write the number) 10 Teachers, 20 Students 5. How was the team formed? o Looking for volunteers X o People who can do that were asked X o Members were delegated by the team leader X o Other ______________________________ 6. Had you any difficulties in communicating virtually? (E. g. time zone differences, technology, culture, landtage barrier, etc.) o If yes, so what (innumerate) - How were the difficulties solved? o No. X 7. If yes, what influence does it have to the quality of the Project, time planning? o Yes. How can it be explained? o No.

8. How were disagreements among team members (if there were such) were solved? By more communication, sending long e-mails, etc. 9. How were extra situations associated with Project tasks solved (if there were such). 10. Who was responsible for solution making? o Project leader o Responsibility was for all team members o Special members were elected X

11. What communicaion technologies were used? o Skype o e-mail X o telephone o video conference o teleconference o other (write) Some Instant Message Programmes like MSN, Live or Yahoo Messenger 12. If video conferences were used, how were they planned? - How long did they last? Around 1 hour every week - What was their purpose? To contact with partners abroad, make the students meet each other, introduction, etc. 13. Were there special training of the team members? o Yes o No 14. If they were organized, how were they done? o virtually o gathering the team in one place o corresponding by Skype o el. mail o using special programs o other ________________ 15. How were the members motivated?

X X X

16. Did you use special team-building metods in order to know each other better? o Yes X o No (answer question No 19) 17. What metods were used? o Birthday celebrations together X o games X (Football and carting) o picnics X o other informal ways of communication Celebrating National Days of Partner Countries and Trips for our students 18. did you notice possitive team-buildingo effect to the whole of the project? o yes X o no 19. how often the team member met during the Time of the project? o Once a week o Two times a week o Once a month o Two times a month X o More often o Never met 20. Did you ask the member to work at hoem? o yes o No 21. What were, to your mind, most ofen mistakes? o Tassks were not evenly given to the tem members o Bad time planning o Tasks were not evaluated o other ____________________________ 22. On what depends sucessful work of virtual team?

23. What are advantages and disadvantages of virtual communication: - Advantages

Disadvantages

Thank you very much for your time devoted answering the questions.