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water garden and wilshire offices — Anyone who runs a startup will tell you it borders on being life-consuming. There’s no 9-to-5, You’re constantly working on building your company, including evenings and weekends and those times you wake up in the middle of the night realizing you need to email someone back and that you still […]

Taking My Work Home With Me – To The Extreme

October 4, 2017 in Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

Making Camp bilingual — I’ll give it to you in one sentence. History class was boring. With two exceptions, (thank you, Mr. MacPhail and Dr. Perkoff), from kindergarten through graduate school, all of my history courses were nothing but names and dates. This guy was king on this day and this war ended on […]

The Reason I Hated History Class (& what I did ...

October 4, 2017 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

I have read a lot of stories about Windows 10S , the new operating system from Microsoft that is supposed to be safe, secure and speedy (what does the S stand for, anyway?). I asked Gonzalo to install it on one of the office Windows laptops because Fish Lake and […]

Windows 10S Passes the Test

October 3, 2017 in Tech Tips by AnnMaria De Mars

View of lake from top of a hill — Ten days, nine cities, three states If you’re one of the 2,000+ email messages in my inbox, sorry I haven’t gotten back to you. If you’re one of the 18 voicemail messages I got yesterday asking, “Where have you been?” Well … It’s been a busy 10 days. Los Angeles […]

Entrepreneurship – not for faint of heart: 10 days, 9 ...

September 30, 2017 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hyderabad_Town_Hall.jpg — You never know where your startup will take you. 7 Generation Games was first born as a concept to help close the math gap among students in Indian Country, with our first schools and initial satellite office on the Spirit Lake Dakota Nation. Now, we’re in programs across the country and, […]

GES 2017: Our Road from Indian Country to India, the ...

September 30, 2017 in Uncategorized by Maria Burns Ortiz

Hello everyone, it’s time for your weekly dose of the Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is from our game “Fish Lake” and it’s a powerpoint presentation and pdf. The powerpoint presentation and pdf are on the stew problem. The stew problem helps you learn about fractions by comparing fractions with different […]

Freebie Friday: The Stew Problem – Learning About Fractions

September 29, 2017 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 October 23, 2016 “You may not know this: Cities” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Gather around the fire, young and old. By my observations in social […]

Throwback Thursday – You may not know this: Cities

September 28, 2017 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

It’s Friday, so that means that it’s time for another “Freebie Friday”. Today’s freebie is from our game “AzTech Games”. The freebie is a powerpoint presentation to accompany a previously shared video on timelines with B.C.E. This powerpoint presentation lists the steps to take in order to solve a problem dealing […]

Freebie Friday: How To Solve The Timeline Problem

September 22, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Freebie Friday / Teacher Resources by Diana Sanchez

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from October 30, 2016 “This Witch Hunt Looks Familiar” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. All of my life, I have been a woman in a “man’s field”. […]

Throwback Thursday: This Witch Hunt Looks Familiar

September 21, 2017 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday / Women in Tech tagged AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday / Women in Tech by Diana Sanchez

Hello everyone, it’s finally Friday and that means that it’s time for the Freebie Friday! Today’s freebie is from our game Making Camp. The freebie is a cultural video on totems. This video teaches you about the Ojibwe and their use of animal totems. Learn more about totems by watching […]

Freebie Friday – Totems

September 15, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Freebie Friday / Teacher Resources by Diana Sanchez

When people at cocktail parties ask what I do for a living I often tell them I teach statistics to adults who don’t want to learn statistics and make math games for kids who don’t want to learn math. (Yes, I get invited to cocktail parties. I have friends!) Generally, the […]