Browsing by Author "Moorefield-Lang, Heather"

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  • Book Review of Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech
    Moorefield-Lang, Heather (Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, 2011-02-25)
  • Building a Community of Teachers: Designing Faculty Interest Groups to Build Pedagogical Expertise
    Pressley, Lauren; Hall, Tracy Michelle; Walz, Anita R.; Moorefield-Lang, Heather; Henshaw, Neal; Miller, Rebecca K. (2014-03-06)
    We explore the University Libraries program to develop instructional expertise within the department, with a focus on the development of a pedagogies interest group focused on understanding, reflecting on, and practicing new and emerging pedagogies in higher education. This poster presents how this model might be applied to other departments interested in facilitating this faculty-driven model of pedagogical development.
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    Introduction: Rethinking Reference and Instruction with Tablets
    Miller, Rebecca K.; Meier, Carolyn; Moorefield-Lang, Heather (American Library Association/ALA TechSource, 2012-11)
    When Apple’s Steve Jobs introduced the first generation iPad in March 2010, library and information professionals immediately began imagining ways that the iPad, and the tablet devices that would quickly follow, could be used to support and enhance library services. While nearly all areas of academic librarianship have started investigating ways to integrate tablets into their plans and workflows, reference and instructional services have truly embraced the transformative power of this new technology. This chapter gives a quick overview of tablets and their popularity, then considers the role that tablets are playing in the evolution of reference and instructional services in the academic library of the early twenty-first century through a summary of the contributed chapters comprising this issue of Library Technology Reports. The chapter concludes with a brief review of foundational literature and further reading on the topic of tablet computers in higher education and the academic library.
  • Rhythmatical: A game to combine music and mathematics for mobile devices
    Moorefield-Lang, Heather; Evans, Michael A. (Music Reference Services Quarterly, 2011)
    Rhythmatical was designed to be an educational application for the iPhone and iPod Touch that conveyed mathematical topics via musical, rhythmic, or movement interactive techniques. Created by a team of professors, a librarian, students, and members of game development industry this iPhone and iPod Touch application connects music and math for fourth to eighth grade students. This article describes the history of the application, the creation of the new deliverable, as well as gives insights into new ideas for the future.
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    A Savory Stew: Text Differentiation in a Middle School Immigration Unit
    Dredger, Mary Kathleen (Virginia Tech, 2011-08-03)
    The goal of this case study of a mindful literacy teacher in a middle school social studies class was to describe the nature of one teacher's differentiated text choices in one seven week unit. The participant was nominated by an administrator, a district supervisor, a university professor, and the researcher based on characteristics of mindful literacy instruction. Classroom observations and teacher interviews described four differentiated text events: an historical fiction novel unit; primary source oral histories; expository non-fiction articles; and picture books, magazines, and an anthology set. Interview transcripts were coded using constant comparative analysis and revealed the teacher's belief in stories, student choice, her resistance to standardized testing, and her own teaching confidence and activist spirit. The discussion addresses the teacher's effectiveness in the areas of collaboration with students, the assignment of varied and plentiful texts, the expectation of high achievement for herself and students; and her effective management of the differentiated texts in the classroom. The researcher also concluded that this teacher did not have the expertise to diagnose or remediate basic reading deficits but her disposition in seeing herself as a reading teacher, challenging mandated curricula, and working to offer appropriate choices for all of her students supported her decision to offer differentiated text choices.
  • These aren’t your father’s funny papers: The new world of digital graphic novels
    Moorefield-Lang, Heather; Gavigan, Karen (KnowledgeQuest, 2012-01)
    This article discusses interactive digital graphic novels, what they are, their background, and their growing popularity. It also highlights and recognizes Web 2.0 sites that are available to take part in the digital graphic novel experience.
  • Virginia Tech University Libraries: Discovery Team 5: Technology
    Arnold, Amy; Clatham, Janice; Lener, Edward F.; Moorefield-Lang, Heather (2012-08-07)