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Monthly Archives: November 2016

The Ojibwe are featured in our games Fish Lake, Making Camp and Forgotten Trail. But who are the Ojibwe? Read on to learn a little more about the tribe – and then play our games to learn even more about them (while learning math too)! The Ojibwe are part of the Anishinaabe people. The Ojibwe are also […]

Learn a Little About the Ojibwe

November 15, 2016 in 7GenGames / Cultural content by Victoria Moll-Ramírez

Fish Lake new icon — Lots of changes are happening in Fish Lake. I’ve posted a few of these over the past couple of months and now you can see some of them for yourself. There are 15 new videos. Originally, many of the educational videos were me talking over powerpoint slides with a bit […]

If you haven’t seen us lately, you haven’t seen us

November 12, 2016 in Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Happy Friday everyone! It’s the end of the week and you know what that means…it’s time for the Freebie Friday! Today’s freebie comes to you from our game Fish Lake. The freebie is our powerpoint and pdf on “Mixed Form To Fraction Form.” This resource introduces mixed form and fraction […]

Freebie Friday: Mixed Form to Fraction Form

November 11, 2016 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

ballot receipt from LA — Last night, Maria asked me how the polls could have been so incorrect as to predict a Hillary Clinton victory. Since she was not the only person who asked this, and not everyone reads the comments in my blog – shock – I thought I’d follow up with a post […]

Why the polls were Right – and wrong

November 11, 2016 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from December 27, 2013 “Blogging as a business plan” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. This post is a public service to these people who tell me that […]

Throwback Thursday: Blogging as a business plan

November 10, 2016 in 7GenGames / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

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It’s the night before the election and statisticians are safe in their beds as visions of the Central Limit Theorem dance in their heads. Eight years ago, when President Obama was running against John McCain, I was discussing this in a statistics course that I was teaching and told the […]

Statisticians Love Election Night (Trump is losing)

November 8, 2016 in Uncategorized by AnnMaria De Mars

fish — Several years ago, I had the privilege of attending a lecture by Albert Bandura (he happens to be the most-cited psychologist alive). He discussed one of his current research projects on what determines happiness. The key factor that stuck out to me was “An absence of self-ruminative thoughts.” This evening, […]

Late Nights and the Secret to Happiness

November 7, 2016 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

I spent a few hours yesterday making a new product video for 7 Generation Games. It was an updated one that include footage from our iPad app. And before that I had been working on an umpteenth version of our deck because every time I need a deck – whether […]

Making the Most with What You’ve Got

November 4, 2016 in Uncategorized by Maria Burns Ortiz

Hello everyone! It’s Friday and that means that it’s time for the weekend, but before that we have another great Freebie Friday for you today! Today’s freebie comes to you from our game Aztech. The Aztech freebie is a powerpoint presentation on reading a pictograph. The powerpoint shows what a […]

Freebie Friday: Reading a Pictograph

November 4, 2016 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from November 27, 2013 “The Care and Feeding of Developers” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. After a fine, productive evening of coding PHP and javascript respectively, The […]

Throwback Thursday: The Care and Feeding of Developers

November 3, 2016 in 7GenGames / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

I’m really excited about the potential in our new iPad app, Making Camp. I’ve been taking an online course on mobile web design and it reminded me of all of the cool features we could use for mobile devices. We could use geolocation to compute distance from where the student […]

Mobile Development and Teachers’ Professional Development

November 2, 2016 in Game Progress / Start-up Diaries / Tech Tips by AnnMaria De Mars

boy and girl on computers playing our games — This evening, my granddaughter didn’t feel like watching her sister’s soccer practice, so she came over and proceeded to spend the next two hours playing with clay. We happen to have 50 different colors and a couple of play sets. While she was making her creations, she frequently stopped to […]

Why Do You Care So Much?

November 2, 2016 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars