Games That Make You Smarter

Christy Hanson

Let’s celebrate Hispanic Heritage month with these charming books by Hispanic authors and/or illustrators. Some featured books are in Spanish only. Too Many Tamalesby Gary Soto illustrated by Ed Martinez This is the story of a treasure thought to be lost in a batch of tamales; of a desperate and […]

Children’s Booklist for Hispanic Heritage Month

September 28, 2021 in Educational Games tagged booklist / bookworm / ELA / Hispanic Heritage Month by Christy Hanson

The Library of Congress Book Festival can be accessed online and runs Sept. 17-26, 2021.

2021 Library of Congress National Book Festival

September 17, 2021 in Educational Resources / Events / Newsletter tagged Maria Burns Ortiz by Christy Hanson

It’s finally here! Our development team has been hard at work, revamping Making Camp Ojibwe. Now it has been featured on the front page under the Kids’ New + Updated games! Making Camp Ojibwe for Android features a newly updated in-game store. The before and after from the trading section […]

Making Camp Ojibwe: New & Improved on Android

September 17, 2021 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / Game Progress / Third Grade tagged Making Camp Ojibwe by Christy Hanson

7 Generation Games will be holding an info session booth at the UTTC Powwow in Bismarck, North Dakota on Sept. 10-13, 2021.

7 Generation Games headed to Red Paint Powwow in Silver ...

September 7, 2021 in 7GenGames / powwow tagged business travelers / powwow by Christy Hanson

Photo from powwow — 7 Generation Games will be holding an info session booth at the UTTC Powwow in Bismarck, North Dakota on Sept. 10-13, 2021.

51st Annual United Tribes Technical College Powwow

August 26, 2021 in 7GenGames / powwow tagged business travelers / powwow by Christy Hanson

Growing Math: iPad showing math game — Growing Math Referral Rewards We want to offer our Growing Math participants a $10 Amazon gift card for each educator they refer who attends our training. They’ll get training, educational games, lessons and reports. You get a gift card. Refer 5 colleagues, get $50. It’s win-win and super simple. Just […]

Growing Math’s Teacher Referral Rewards

August 26, 2021 in Educational Games / Growing Math / Teachers tagged Growing Math by Christy Hanson

As of 8/13/2021, our two augmented reality apps that are currently being updated are as follows: Counting by Two Languages – Android & iOS Math: The Universal Language – Lakota – Android These versions of the app are under construction. You won’t be able to access them until construction is […]

Two AR Apps Under Construction

August 18, 2021 in 7GenGames / Code Talk / DevDiary / Educational Games / Game Design / Game Progress tagged 7 Generation Games / Game Design / Game Progress by Christy Hanson

Designing a video game is simultaneously easy and difficult. There are many moving parts. I hope this insider’s glimpse serves to enlighten youth in exploring their future career paths. Read on to see how we made the Making Camp Navajo game project. A video game project feels similar to how […]

Behind the Scenes: How a Video Game is Made

August 17, 2021 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Game Design / Newsletter tagged 7 Generation Games / Game Design / Growing Math by Christy Hanson

Herding in the mountains during the high desert monsoon season was breathtaking. The ground was soft and felt like walking on flour. The horned toads got a chance to cool off and were out hunting for insects. We saw two large ones! The first I discovered about herding sheep in […]

Herding Sheep in the Chuska Mountains

August 12, 2021 in 7GenGames / Educational Games tagged Growing Math / making camp navajo by Christy Hanson

“My labels were born from my hustle.” Jeremy Arviso Jeremy D. Arviso is a man on a mission. He has a passion for multimedia art, which encompasses graffiti, fashion design, and traditional techniques. Arviso is strongly influenced by his grandmother, a weaver and silversmith who inspired his creativity. He found […]

Behind the Art of Making Camp Navajo: Jeremy D. Arviso

August 2, 2021 in 7GenGames / Cultural content / Educational Games / Newsletter tagged making camp navajo / Video Games by Christy Hanson

Yá’át’ééh ‘abiní. The 7 Generation Games design team finished the first phase of Making Camp Navajo, which included brainstorming, drafting, and outlining cultural scripts and mini-games. Throughout our first phase, we were accompanied by our wonderful and highly knowledgable Dine’ cultural consultants, Albert B. Chase of Dine’ Pollen Trail Consulting, […]

Making Camp Navajo: The Journey Home

July 13, 2021 in 7GenGames / Bilingual Education / Cultural content / Educational Games / Game Design / Growing Math / Newsletter tagged 7 Generation Games / educational video games / making camp navajo / Video Games by Christy Hanson

My father, Jerry Hanson, worked for Kerr-McGee in Church Rock, New Mexico from September 1978 to October or December of 1982. Four years. During that time, he earned more than enough money to build our family home in Tohatchi, New Mexico. Now, the toxic legacy of uranium mining is being […]

A late-night uranium “war story”

July 13, 2021 in 7GenGames / Cultural content / Educational Games tagged Cultural Content / Growing Math / making camp navajo by Christy Hanson