Deadline for Formal Registration Extended!

Dear All,
Upon the request of some school principals, we extended the formal registration deadline from 27th June to "20th JULY 2008".

The deadline for sending Full papers, stay requirements and tour plans is 8th August. However, not to witness any difficulties with the hotel reservations and with the final time table we need to know probable participant number. So, do not neglect an informal registration, please...

Another request is related to your diet. Please inform us about eating habits. Full vegetarian, Half Veg. and None...

For a better sharing, we are going to add a new section to my web page. I hope this would be more satisfying for the participants. The address will be the same as follows:

http://www.hayalkoksal.com/en/convention

I would also feel proudful for announcing two very important interactive workshops which will be conducted during the Convention by our two expert participants: The first one will take place on 27th August. "Space sciences Technology" Workshop by Prof. Dr. Syed W. Ali from John Hopkins University and the other is on 28th August; "Democracy and Peace Education Workshop for Students & Teachers" by Ms Hilary Hunt, CEWC, UK.

I wish you a very lovely summer. But, keep in your mind that Istanbul is looking forward to hosting you at a very green and cool corner to make you feel happy and relaxed.

With best regards,
Hayal KÖKSAL

Blessing from Mauritius

Dear Colleagues,

I have been busy with the preparations of the 11th Convention on Students' İmece Circles which will be held in Istanbul on 26-28 August, 2008. Although it necessitates a great load of energy and effort, some mails of my friends turn this into a joyful event. Here is one: My Mauritian friend Coco wrote the following mail to support me. I am grateful to him for this motivating message. I believe he would not mind my sharing it with you. With love and peace.

Hayal KÖKSAL

Hi Dr Koksal,
How are you? Hope you are fine and that all you plans for your big events are going in the right direction.Every day, I think about you as I know how much work and hard work you will come accross to acheive this big event.You are a hard worker and a great fighter and you will succeed in your project. I will inform you by next week concerning my participation hope that I will be able to make it as it is something great to be among all of you looking forward to that.
On behalf of all Maritian family I would like to wish you and your team GOOD LUCK a million times.
May god bless you and your team.
Kind regards
Mohundas teeluck {coco}

A Short Break to Istanbul Days :)

Dear All,
I realized my plan and gave a short break to my Istanbul days, just after the heavy academic year and before the rush for the Convention. I am at Olympos, Antalya_Hobbit Home, now; to spend my only free week. Do not think that I will sleep or swim all day long. I set up my summer office just next to the wall of my room. My fax in Istanbul(+90 212 341 26 02) and my laptop here look forward to getting your registration forms and also the Assessment Forms of the ICT Seagulls Projects: http://www.bilisimcimartilar.com/degerlendirme.html .
A more dynamic lady will meet you in Istanbul in August, I hope. With love and peace...
Hayal KÖKSAL

Schools & ICT Seagulls Projects End in Türkiye

Dear Colleagues,

Today was the last day of the 2007-2008 Academic year for all schools in Türkiye. From the early days of September, all the parties related to educational world were in rush. At least students and parents will be in a great peace and harmony until September. I wish them a good rest. However, learning is continual and you all have to go on reading and conducting some interesting hobbies which will contribute you a lot.

On Sunday, all the high school graduates will take the University Entrance Exam (ÖSS). I wish them good luck.

If you ask me, ı will have to be very busy until the final days of October, and then the new academic year will have started by then. This is a very busy life style, isn't it? It seems tiring, but I love it, for I love being with young people and learn from them.
Dear all, the 5th International ICT Seagulls Projects ended on 10th June and all the hard-working circles handed in their web page addresses and CDs. Nearly 40 teams have successfully completed the projects. I would like to congratulate them. Tomorrow, the self-assessment phase will start. At the end of June, the judges will meet and the final assessment will be done. The Award Ceremony will take place during the 11th ICSQCC. They deserve to be known and also to be awarded. In a short time, you will see the web addresses of those circles on http://www.bilisimcimartilar.com/. The assessment part will include their web addresses which also hold English ppts of the projects. :) .
The developments concerning the 11th ICSQCC go on and I try to share them with you day by day. I appreciate Mr.Dheeraj's efforts and support to me through Skype. He also helps me via his web page. Please visit his web page. Thank you very much Dheeraj. You are a very good friend.

http://members.rediff.com/computerscienceexpertise/index_files/page0002.htm .

I say goodbye to all. With peace and love...

Hayal KÖKSAL

A Letter from the President of WCTQEE

Dear All,

I would like to share a electronic letter of Mr.Jagdish Gandhi who is the founder manager of UNESCO Peace Education Awarded India, Lucknow City Montessori School and also the President of the World Council for Total Quality & Excellence in Education (WCTQEE). It is a great honour for me to read and also to share these wonderful words with you. Just before a very important Convention, it is really motivating and supporting for me toget such an mail. With my best regards, Mr. Gandhi...

Dr.Hayal KÖKSAL

"Dear Madam,
I am very happy to receive your email of June 5 in response to my email of the same day. The compliments I sent you are absolutely worthy of you. I have noticed some extraordinary qualities of diligence and creativity in you. Therefore, the forthcoming 11th ICSQCC organised by you will be a merely routine job for you. You are capable of undertaking more arduous tasks. Dr. Kamran and you form a fine team to induct valuable inputs to enrich education needed to cope with the requirements of the modern age.

May I endorse the compliments of "TQM Lady" paid to you by the English Language Education Association as I am fully aware of your abilities for evolving absolutily new systems for enriching education. God bless you!

With kind regards,
Yours sincerely,
Jagdish Gandhi
Founder Manager,

City Montessori School*Head Office"

14 Environmental Projects from ICT Seagulls

Dear Enviro Dosts,

I would like to wish you a better and greener world on the "World Enviro Day".

I would like to share some good news with you. As you know, we have been conducting "ICT Seagulls Projects" to train more conscious minds about different problem areas at the elementary, secondary schools and even at universities. This year one of the problem areas was; "Environment" and 14 Students' İmece circles have worked on this issue. Towards the end of June, these projects will appear on their web pages which have been designed originally for sharing.

I believe all these projects will attract your attention. I wish you all a "Green world".
Hayal KÖKSAL
1. AYVALIK INDUSTRIAL V. HIGH SCHOOL: CLEAN SEA PROJECT
2.MUĞLA TURGUT REİS HIGH SCHOOL: REDUCTION of WATER RESOURCES & SOLUTIONS
3. NEVŞEHİR HIGH SCHOOL: REDUCTION of the WATER AMOUNT USED by the CITIZENS
4. ANTAKYA BEDİİ SABUNCU PRIMARY SCHOOL: SOS for the POLLUTED "ASİ RIVER

5. AĞRI YİBO: CLIMATE CHANGE
6. RİZE KURTULUŞ PRIMARY SCHOOL: ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
7. BOLU EGEMENLİK PRIMARY SCHOOL: CLIMATE CHANGE & CREATING AWARENESS for the ENVIRO-SENSITIVITY
8. ÇANKIRI İSMET İNÖNÜ PRIMARY SCHOOL: COMBATTING AGAINST EROSION & FROMING GREEN AREAS
9. 30 AĞUSTOS PRIMARY SCHOOL: NEGATIVE OUTCOMES of GLOBAL HEATING
10. BEYAZIT FORD-OTOSAN PRIMARY SCHOOL: CLIMATE CHANGE
11. NGO_TEGV Diyarbakır Educational Park: CLIMATE CHANGE
12. NGO_TEGV Giresun Central Training Unit: CLIMATE CHANGE

13. NGO_TEGV-Van Educational Park: CLIMATE CHANGE
14. NGO_TEGV-İzmir EgekentEducational Unit: CLIMATE CHANGE

Contributions of School Foundations and Sample Case

Dear Colleagues,

I was invited to a Cultural tour today which was organized by the Ferit Avni Sözen Foundation. The Memory House of Aunt Sofia Rizi and the Glass Atelier at Öğümce Village helped us a lot learn many things about different issues. Other gaining were new friends and collecting money for the needed students. Ont he way of training Total Quality Persons (TQP), we have to come together with different patrties of the schools. One is Alumni Center and the other is PTAs. Please try to create synergy through such activities on the way of supporting the young. Have a good week.
Hayal Köksal

Kepirtepe Village Institution Visit

Dear All,

We visited the campus of Kepirtepe Anatolian Teachers' High School, 4 km away from Luleburgaz on 1st June. Within the campus of the High school there existed a very sad-looking set of buildings which once used to ,belong to Kepirtepe Village ınstitutions. Those schools were the schools of Enlightenment (Atatürk's) Period and the main goal was to improve the Turkish villages and villagers. More than 17,000 village boys and girls were trained in 6 years' time as teachers, health technicians and agriculture experts at 21 different village institutions located at every region of Turkey. But later on, due to some political reasons they were closed.
However, some non-governmental organizations like the Association for New Generation Village Institutioners, Lions and Kepirtepeliler Foundation decided to support those old buildings as redesigning them as "Cultural Centers". If you want to support the one above, you can send some financial support to the Postal Draft number, 1346063 of Kepirtepeliler Foundation. A similar refrom was made for the İsparta, Gönen Village Institution and now Fakir Baykurt Culturel Center serve to the university students of Suleyman Demirel university. The aim is similar for Kepirtepe. The brick in our hands belonged to the old buildings of the Institution and there are K and E letters on them proving that all of them were made by the village institution students. We all believe that all the work in the light of science and wisdom will be fruitful. You must trust this. Have a healthy and fruitful week. Loves,

Hayal KÖKSAL