Karen Van Drie, our March speaker and Istanbul IN member, is a teacher, librarian and 21st century information expert.

Karen’s blog, “Empty Nest Expat” has been lauded as one of the best expat blogs published. Her twitter stream at @emptynestexpat was featured in America’s largest newspaper, “The Wall Street Journal.” The London Telegraph also chose to feature her @emptynestexpat twitter stream in a list of expert expats – she was the only Yank featured!

Please Note: The price for the event is FREE, as our speakers graciously donate their time! But in order to use this awesome space and awesome view, the restaurant has asked for a 15 TL minimum for each person. There will be bottomless tea and coffee and cookies for 15 TL, or a 15 TL minimum on food, drinks (beer and wine available), etc.

Time and location: Tuesday, March 11th, 18:30-20:30/ Taxim Hill Hotel (http://www.taximhill.com/) Meeting Room Space (Toplanti Odasi)

No reservation is needed, although most guests do respond via the Facebook invite.

Session Description:

This workshop is for you if you want to know everything necessary to excel at Twitter and become a “connected educator” in less than 1 hour and 30 minutes (with a break).

This workshop is for you if you don’t know what a personal learning network is and suspect you might need one.

This workshop is for you if you are still relying on professional learning you did before you left your home country.

This workshop is for you if you don’t know how to globalize and update your learning to include new sources you may not have encountered at home.