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Volume Two - Academic Conferences

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3.1 Training Needs<br />

Nazime Tuncay and Hüseyin Uzunboylu<br />

40 teachers from 40 different schools in North Cyprus are interviewed. They expressed that they have<br />

training needs on several subjects, in which can be collected in five main topics:<br />

Calculating exam grades using Microsoft Excel<br />

Preparing good presentations using Microsoft Word<br />

Searching through internet<br />

Using Moodle<br />

Designing Web Pages<br />

3.2 SL Meetings<br />

Meetings with Linden People were arranged in SL (See Figure 3). Aim was to have information about<br />

SL and it usages.<br />

Figure 3 SL Meetings<br />

The comments were that SL:<br />

“Was commonly used in nursery courses and language courses”.<br />

“Is an entertaining and social environment”.<br />

“It is like real life, so you do not need to attain to face-to-face courses”.<br />

“The courses will be more entertaining if it is used in teaching”.3.3 Online Syllabus<br />

The comments and suggestions to the syllabus were very helpful in reshaping it (see Figure 4). There<br />

were many suggestions of additional course materials as well as suggestions for additional context.<br />

Some of the useful suggestions were: Uploading User Manuals for SL and VirtualNeu and uploading<br />

videos. Figure 4 shows an example of the comments of the participants.<br />

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