Email: tnoval@mindspring.com
Phone: 415-338-1509
Trena Noval has been working in technology and curriculum integration with Elementary, Middle and High school teachers since 1983. She was co-director of a science and technology grant for Burton Academic High School, part of San Francisco Unified School District from 1983-1986. She has worked as a producer and content developer for Ripple Effects, a San Francisco based Educational Software and Web Development Company, and for Computer Strategies, as an educational curriculum and technology developer and integrator, focusing on managing coaching, mentoring and training programs for k-12 grade teachers nationally.
For the past 3 years she has been awarded a grant through the Oakland City Arts and Culture program and Alameda County Anchor Arts program to create model curriculum practices using digital media such as pod casting, blogging and video streaming at Peralta Elementary School in Oakland. This year (2008) that program was designated an National Laboratory site through program collaborators Alameda County Office of Education, CCA Center for Public Life in Oakland and Harvard's Project Zero as a model active arts integration site. Ms. Noval continues to work with Project Zero and Center for Public Life faculty as an Action Research Fellow in Alameda County through this project. She has consistently presented at the CUE, NECC conferences and the Hawaii International Conference on Education on coaching and mentoring models.
She also currently directs a Technology and Language Arts EETT integration grant in Middle Schools at South San Francisco Unified School District and has worked as a technology integration coach and technology planning consultant throughout the bay area.
She has over 20 years teaching in both secondary and university levels and has taught at the Department of Instructional Technologies at San Francisco State University since 2003. She holds a Masters degree in Visual Arts and Digital Media.
Courses taught: ITEC 711 and ITEC 601
Website (Fall 2007 ITEC 711): http://my-ecoach.com/project.php?id=10925
