AnnMaria
@drannmaria.bsky.social
I make educational games and the tools to make them. Also, teach statistics, epidemiology and, occasionally game design. First American to win the world judo championships. Yes, I’m multi-talented.
Games completed so far from the Library of Congress grant. The first game we did it as part of the Global Game Jam with a teacher who wanted a game that included math and history and could be played equally by blind and sighted children.
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www.7generationgames.com/games-teachi...
Games Teaching Indigenous & Rural History with Primary Sources
Thanks to the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant from the western region, we were able to meet with cohorts of teachers to co-design games. The first six are completed with two…
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November 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Games completed so far from the Library of Congress grant. The first game we did it as part of the Global Game Jam with a teacher who wanted a game that included math and history and could be played equally by blind and sighted children.
www.7generationgames.com/games-teachi...
www.7generationgames.com/games-teachi...
Thought I would get back to posting. Here are some things I have been up to - made 2 new educational games - www.7generationgames.com/two-new-educ... about plant knowledge and generosity
Two new educational games, lessons and a game builder
I read that company newsletters should not be about your products because no one cares. I disagree, We have cool new games that help you teach history with math and science, and both are free.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Thought I would get back to posting. Here are some things I have been up to - made 2 new educational games - www.7generationgames.com/two-new-educ... about plant knowledge and generosity
My Ted Talk is up . youtu.be/7v4C0UzdkZo What we talk about at the secret world champions meetings
What we talk about at the secret world champions' meetings | AnnMaria De Mars | TEDxFargo
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November 1, 2025 at 4:30 AM
My Ted Talk is up . youtu.be/7v4C0UzdkZo What we talk about at the secret world champions meetings
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Why I created an AI agent and then rewrote the whole thing using our own code. Two words: time, money - www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-num...
AI Numbers that Don’t Make Sense
While Alice in Wonderland may have been able to believe several impossible things before breakfast, I personally have a hard time reconciling the hype around AI coding. Major companies like Microsoft,...
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October 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Why I created an AI agent and then rewrote the whole thing using our own code. Two words: time, money - www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-num...
I love this lesson plan on Chokecherries and Fractions for so many reasons. www.growingmath.org/chokecherrie... It also includes a lot on teaching vocabulary, reading, Lakota culture and Lakota language. There is an optional but highly recommended cooking activity.
Chokecherries and Fractions | Growing Math
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October 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I love this lesson plan on Chokecherries and Fractions for so many reasons. www.growingmath.org/chokecherrie... It also includes a lot on teaching vocabulary, reading, Lakota culture and Lakota language. There is an optional but highly recommended cooking activity.
How do you get back the time you spend on social media? Here are three tips that work for me. www.lifeondemars.com/2025/10/16/l...
Lost time and how to get it back – Life on De Mars
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October 16, 2025 at 3:27 AM
How do you get back the time you spend on social media? Here are three tips that work for me. www.lifeondemars.com/2025/10/16/l...
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Sen. Kaine: We could open this government and get the funding done in 36 hours if Trump would just engage rather than spending time with the Argentine president and cutting a deal with the Qataris. America first, folks. Let's get government open and bring people's healthcare costs down
October 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Sen. Kaine: We could open this government and get the funding done in 36 hours if Trump would just engage rather than spending time with the Argentine president and cutting a deal with the Qataris. America first, folks. Let's get government open and bring people's healthcare costs down
www.lifeondemars.com/2025/10/15/f... I wrote about "found time" in our linked in newsletter and so many people commented on it that I wrote a blog about found time and grabbed time
Found time and grabbed time – Life on De Mars
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October 15, 2025 at 4:56 AM
www.lifeondemars.com/2025/10/15/f... I wrote about "found time" in our linked in newsletter and so many people commented on it that I wrote a blog about found time and grabbed time
Are you going to be at AATC in Minneapolis next week? Just got off call with Dan Conn and our presentation on Combining Primary Sources and #AI to Co-design Games on #Indigenous and #Rural #History is going to be the most fun at the conference. How could it not be, it involves playing #games
October 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Are you going to be at AATC in Minneapolis next week? Just got off call with Dan Conn and our presentation on Combining Primary Sources and #AI to Co-design Games on #Indigenous and #Rural #History is going to be the most fun at the conference. How could it not be, it involves playing #games
Woohoo - 7 Generation Games won the Latinx EdTech Summit for K12 applications for our 7 Gen Blocks
September 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Woohoo - 7 Generation Games won the Latinx EdTech Summit for K12 applications for our 7 Gen Blocks
What do you do when you have too much to do? Remember that jugglers don’t get paid too often and sometimes the balls hit them in the head. Apologies if there are some typos in this because I finished it while waiting for Pitch Latino to start - www.7generationgames.com/startup-jugg...
Startup Juggling Act: How do you find the time
Right now, I’m finishing one of four games remaining on a contract. I’m happy to do it and it’s very fun. I’m also creating two sites for two different contracts for collecting assessment data.
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September 18, 2025 at 12:24 AM
What do you do when you have too much to do? Remember that jugglers don’t get paid too often and sometimes the balls hit them in the head. Apologies if there are some typos in this because I finished it while waiting for Pitch Latino to start - www.7generationgames.com/startup-jugg...
Went on @kickstarter.com since I hadn't been there in a while & I don't want to be a hypocrite when we had 3 successful Kickstarter campaigns, so just picked a cute game and backed it www.kickstarter.com/projects/tla...
Super Blowfish Castle
A cozy chaotic puzzle-solving platformer starring a tiny little blowfish.
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September 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Went on @kickstarter.com since I hadn't been there in a while & I don't want to be a hypocrite when we had 3 successful Kickstarter campaigns, so just picked a cute game and backed it www.kickstarter.com/projects/tla...
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This is what happens when justice serves power instead of people.
Banksy’s latest piece shows a judge beating a protester. They rushed to throw up barriers to hide it.
We need this here because it looks a lot like our own Supreme Court vs. the people.
Banksy’s latest piece shows a judge beating a protester. They rushed to throw up barriers to hide it.
We need this here because it looks a lot like our own Supreme Court vs. the people.
September 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This is what happens when justice serves power instead of people.
Banksy’s latest piece shows a judge beating a protester. They rushed to throw up barriers to hide it.
We need this here because it looks a lot like our own Supreme Court vs. the people.
Banksy’s latest piece shows a judge beating a protester. They rushed to throw up barriers to hide it.
We need this here because it looks a lot like our own Supreme Court vs. the people.
Lunch with the fam at Lula's
September 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Lunch with the fam at Lula's
My biggest flaw as a developer is starting to code before sitting down and writing out exactly how it needs to work from the user perspective. My second biggest flaw is not regularly updating the document when I do think of writing it down. Working on it.
September 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
My biggest flaw as a developer is starting to code before sitting down and writing out exactly how it needs to work from the user perspective. My second biggest flaw is not regularly updating the document when I do think of writing it down. Working on it.
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Why senior developers never write "clever" code.
Clever code is hard to read.
Hard to debug.
Impossible to maintain.
Your goal isn't to look smart. It's to write simple, boring code that just works.
#Buildinpublic
Clever code is hard to read.
Hard to debug.
Impossible to maintain.
Your goal isn't to look smart. It's to write simple, boring code that just works.
#Buildinpublic
September 4, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Why senior developers never write "clever" code.
Clever code is hard to read.
Hard to debug.
Impossible to maintain.
Your goal isn't to look smart. It's to write simple, boring code that just works.
#Buildinpublic
Clever code is hard to read.
Hard to debug.
Impossible to maintain.
Your goal isn't to look smart. It's to write simple, boring code that just works.
#Buildinpublic
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How awesome are 7 Gen Blocks? Monday: Workshop with teachers. Wednesday & Thursday, I made the game they wanted, squeezed between meetings, answering emails and completing an analysis for a client. sandbox.7generationgames.com/bell_ringers/
August 22, 2025 at 12:54 AM
How awesome are 7 Gen Blocks? Monday: Workshop with teachers. Wednesday & Thursday, I made the game they wanted, squeezed between meetings, answering emails and completing an analysis for a client. sandbox.7generationgames.com/bell_ringers/
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August 21, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I'll be at Avance in San Diego pitching 7 Generation Games on September 19 during their event for Latinx in Ed Tech. LMK if you are there and want to meet up.
August 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I'll be at Avance in San Diego pitching 7 Generation Games on September 19 during their event for Latinx in Ed Tech. LMK if you are there and want to meet up.
What can you do with 7 Gen Blocks? It is so fast and easy that you can make a game for an audience of one, in this case, my granddaughter who was home sick with the flu - 7generationgames.com/glorias_week...
August 3, 2025 at 2:02 AM
What can you do with 7 Gen Blocks? It is so fast and easy that you can make a game for an audience of one, in this case, my granddaughter who was home sick with the flu - 7generationgames.com/glorias_week...
Reading game ideas from the teachers we met with at Sitting Bull College last week and these are so cool. I cannot wait to make these games!
August 3, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Reading game ideas from the teachers we met with at Sitting Bull College last week and these are so cool. I cannot wait to make these games!