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!
