The second edition of the Educational Sociolinguistics class blog is hereby launched! Many thanks to Alison Crump, whose brainchild it was back in 2016. Alison is a much more experienced blogger and online writer than I am, as readers may know if they are familiar with our research community’s BILD blog and the journal that eventually spun out of the work that BILD members have been doing there. Critical sociolinguistics is what we are all about. As a sociolinguistics course instructor who deftly turned the first edition of this blog into an opportunity to conduct original research on blogging as pedagogy (see the previous post, in which the baton was passed), Alison will be a hard act to follow. But I have confidence that the group of students who will be following along will be equal to the challenge, and will be an inspiration to their instructor. It has been my privilege to teach everybody in the current cohort at least once over the past year in other McGill courses, and I have an inkling of the kind of intellectual daring of which this group is capable. I look forward to seeing where they will take me. Please come along for the ride!
Month: January 2019
Educational Sociolinguistics: Second Edition
Exciting news, readers! After a fairly long hiatus from blog posting, the Educational Sociolinguistics blog is about to launch its Second Edition.
As you may recall, I started this blog with my graduate class (EDSL 624) at McGill in September 2016 (here’s the first post). I thought the blog would have a life span of one semester, but the blog has continued to attract visitors from all over the world over the past couple of years; we went from about 4,000 views during the course to almost 13,000 as of today. Indeed, the blog has lived on, even without new content – a most beautiful example of the community-building potential of open scholarship. (Note: The First Edition had a different home (here) and when we transitioned to the current address, the site visits data didn’t transfer over. This is OK, because now the second cohort will be able to easily track the traffic they generate.)
Here we are in January 2019, and I am ceremoniously passing the baton to my dear friend, colleague, and former PhD supervisor, Professor Mela Sarkar, who will be expertly guiding a new cohort of graduate students into the world of blogging as pedagogy.
I will be following the blog closely over the next few months. I hope you do too!
