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School / Work Affiliation: Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Institut d'Administration des Entreprises

Blog: http://bernie.typepad.com

Website: http://www.unice.fr/mba

About Me: I'm an English for special purposes assistant professor at our univeristy's Business Management Institute. I am also the Director of the University of Nice's MBA MIB program in association with San Francisco State University.
My pedagogical interests have always focused on individualizing learning, teaching considered as guiding/facilitating but not exclusively, and using all the modern technological innovations, especially the net.

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Using social networking in the foreign language classroom

Posted on June 28, 2007 at 8:38am 0 Comments 0 Likes

I've been following what are now called social networks right from the start. As an English as a foreign language teacher, I soon realized that they could be one way of solving one of the essential problems of learning a foreign language, namely communicating with real live speakers (and writers) who use the language as it is used daily, not as textbooks and professional teachers water it down to help learners learn it, or even as newspapers or news broadcasts transform it to suit their needs.… Continue

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At 2:15am on April 10, 2009, Dr.Tamishra Swain said…: Hi Berniec,
would you like to share your teaching experience through a book chapter.Please visit my blog or my dicussion page to get further information. A response is solicited.
tamishra

At 2:20pm on July 27, 2007, berniec said…: I had to add djvince 's music to my page. He was one of my studnets a couple of years ago when I began using social networking sites. He has continued using Tagworld to put some of his music online. I'm really happy about that. Besides I do like his music!

At 2:27am on June 29, 2007, berniec said…: Yes, Nice France. When you do come back, just let me know!

At 10:13pm on June 28, 2007, Lara H.T. Niles said…: Thank you for your interest! Did I see that you are from Nice...is that France? I have visited and it is such a wonderful area! I hope to go back :)

At 10:12pm on June 28, 2007, Lara H.T. Niles said…: My research began with epistemology and provided a non-dualistic, phenomenographic perspective of engineering faculty using case study research. The data were analyzed using two theoretical frameworks. The two rich case studies illustrated: the fit between faculty espoused beliefs and classroom practices, the influence of faculty preparation for teaching, the influence of faculty pedagogical beliefs on their course delivery with technology, and the pedagogical roles of the faculty and the engineering distance education staff. My research found that one engineering faculty member’s espoused beliefs were a good fit with his classroom practices using technology, whereas the other member of faculty (who had less preparation for teaching) appeared to have less coherence between his teaching approaches and course management techniques.

At 9:09am on June 18, 2007, berniec said…: I did. Just waiting for an invite.

At 1:46am on June 18, 2007, Hans Feldmeier said…: Hi, welcome!
Check out my group DigiSkills on Classroom 2.0 about digital teaching methods and join as well.
Greetings
Hans