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Yearly Archives: 2018

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from December 30, 2015 “What If You Took the Other Fork in the Road?” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. I usually only read poetry when threatened, […]

Throwback Thursday: What If You Took the Other Fork in ...

July 12, 2018 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

Santiago view from 61 floors up — If you listen to any start-up pitches, you hear about the $XX BILLION DOLLAR global market. When we were in an accelerator program, we were advised to “use global numbers to make your market look bigger”. There is just one problem there. Nearly all of those start-ups throwing out figures […]

The Global Market Ain’t All That Easy

July 12, 2018 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Captain Obvious — Ogden Nash said, “Foreigners are people somewhere else, Natives are people at home If the place you’re at Is your habitat You’re a foreigner, say, in Rome.” As a general rule, Americans take one of two different views about foreign countries, and, in my experience, both of these views are […]

Am I Crazy to Be Doing Business in a Foreign ...

July 8, 2018 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

It’s the end of another week and that means that you’re in right on time for another Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is from Making Camp and it’s a video on social structure. The video talks about the importance of the social structure of Ojibwe tribes and how that helped the […]

Freebie Friday: Social Structure

July 6, 2018 in 7GenGames / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from April 7, 2015 “The Value of Mean Parents” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. This morning, my sister and her lovely daughter took Julia to the […]

Throwback Thursday: The Value of Mean Parents

July 5, 2018 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

Grandchildren living in Santiago — “OK, explain this to me,” my 10-year-old asked the other day. We have been in Santiago for two weeks now, fully – well, mostly – immersed in Spanish, and her Spanish comprehension has improved probably 10x in that time. Her spoken Spanish – which she never used before besides maybe […]

Learning a Language: Sometimes Words Just Don’t Make Sense

July 5, 2018 in Bilingual Education by Maria Burns Ortiz

Hello everyone. It’s time for another Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is from Fish Lake and it’s a PowerPoint presentation and pdf on equivalent fractions. The PPT and PDF titled, “Equivalent fractions and fishing” teaches you the steps on how to reduce to equivalent fractions and compare fractions to solve a […]

Freebie Friday: Equivalent fractions and fishing

June 29, 2018 in 7GenGames / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from October 23, 2014 “What I Learned About Relationships from Judo” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Last time, I wrote about what I learned about business from […]

Throwback Thursday: What I Learned About Relationships from Judo

June 28, 2018 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

It’s not often that a single presentation has a significant impact in how you do business, but the discussion on sales in Latin America by Nicolas Elizarraga, did just that. He said that when he started selling information technology to corporations he started out by calling dozens of successful sales people […]

The Most Valuable Thing I Learned in Chile

June 23, 2018 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

It’s the end of the week and that means that it’s time for another Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is from our AzTech Games series and it’s clip art of a Mayan pyramid. The Mayan pyramid artwork can be seen below and used to start a lesson on the Mayan or […]

Freebie Friday: Mayan pyramid clip art

June 22, 2018 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

Picture this: a young married couple from Mexico moved to the U.S. in their late teens to start a family. It should be assumed that their future children would be bilingual, correct? It’s simple math, two bilingual parents (who are native Spanish speakers) have kids. They teach their kids Spanish […]

I’m “fluent” in Spanish- wait, what’s a martillo?

June 21, 2018 in 7GenGames / Educational Games tagged 7 Generation Games by Irma Barcena

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from July 21, 2016 “Be an anti-hoarder” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Years ago, I said to The Invisible Developer, “Every month, I go through this house, […]

Throwback Thursday: Be an anti-hoarder

June 21, 2018 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez