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Educational Games
Students need to learn more than one subject, they have more than one interest and that’s why the Making Camp series has more than one game. There’s Making Camp Ojibwe, Bilingual, Lakota, and Premium. My personal favorites are the Premium and Bilingual, but that’s just because there’s more learning with words […]
Learning More Every Day with Making Camp
Did you know that we have 5 different games for Making Camp?! Follow our Pinterest board to get notifications on new games, videos, clip art and more about MAKING CAMP! Making Camp Ojibwe Recommended Grades 3-5 Math: Multiplication and Division History: Ojibwe (Chippewa) , Plains Indians In Making Camp, players […]
Making Camp Games for Everyone
If you actually ARE a bilingual teacher, you may already know what I’m going to say. In that case, read on to nod in agreement and feel superior. For me, this was one of the many things about education that only seemed obvious after I learned it. Our software was […]
Why Bilingual Teachers Need Our Bilingual Software
In our story so far, I had an idea, wrote a grant, recruited two co-founders and we all worked on some games to teach math with story lines based on Native American history. After 2 1/2 years or so, we quit our jobs and devoted full-time to 7 Generation Games. What […]
Going all in: The accelerator phase
Here is a phrase you will never hear: “I wish I knew less languages.” Mastering another language is a key that unlocks other parts of the world that, otherwise, you wouldn’t be able to access. Another language unlocks new conversations about literature, music and more. It isn’t necessary to be […]
Bilingual Games in Spanish
One of our first investors told me, “The one guarantee I can make about a startup is that the company you end up with is not going to be what you envisioned when you started out.” Wise man, as evidenced by the fact that he invested in two of our […]
The Winding History of 7 Generation Games
Almost four year ago, we released our initial beta of our very first game, Spirit Lake. And we got a lot of positive feedback. The 3D virtual world looked great. Kids were engaged. Math scores went up. But we knew it could be even better. It was good – but […]
The Perfect Time to Get “Spirit Lake: The Game” Has ...
That’s right! We will be demoing our educational video games this January 30th in Anaheim, California. The California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1976 to promote bilingual education and quality educational experiences for all students in California. CABE has chapters, members and affiliates, along […]
Meet us at the California Association for Bilingual Education regional ...
I’ve written about the challenges of finding a mentor previously, Why the cool kids won’t hang out with you. Let’s be frank, if you are old and pumping gas, not too many people are interested in you as a mentor, but the last few years have been good here at The […]
The Social Politics of Mentoring
You’ll never convince me that multiplication tables are unnecessary If it hasn’t happened after over 30 years of teaching math, it’s probably not going to happen. Yes, we all have calculators on our phones. Before that we had calculators on our watches (anyone remember that?). You know what is faster […]
Learning multiplication tables with Spirit Lake
Credit where credit is due, I owe this epiphany to two people — comedian Kevin Hart, whose autobiography, I can’t make this up, I highly recommend, and two-time judo Olympian, Pat Burris. TL, DR; Since schools are still on vacation and even great teachers are not on “teacher mode” until Monday, […]