Monthly Archives: September 2015

bags of money — Did you ever see those commercials about how the government wants to give you free money? Government grants go unclaimed every year! The government wants to give you money! Yeah, that’s a lie. The government does not want to give you money. You have to knock the government down and […]

Show me the money! Grants vs Investor Funds

September 16, 2015 in Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

As we’ve mentioned, our company is in the middle of participating in BoomStartup’s EdTech accelerator in Salt Lake City. We’re one month into the three-month program and we can already see to why they call it an “accelerator” as things are moving at an even faster pace than usual around […]

7 Generation Games Spotlighted in BoomStartup’s September Newsletter

September 14, 2015 in Uncategorized by Maria Burns Ortiz

Codex page with 2 warriors and a bunch of boxes — If you didn’t know, now you know, the Library of Congress is a wonderful resource for teaching any subject. Today, I was working on our newest game, Aztech, and writing “bonus level missions”. I had seen a lesson a teacher did where students were given several digital photos from a […]

Now Playing: Making History and English Awesome

September 13, 2015 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

As we’ve developed our games, it’s become clear that there’s not a whole lot of Native American clip art available for design purposes. We’d like to change that – so today’s Freebie Friday includes downloadable clip art for use in your classes, website, blog, etc. Just head to our resources […]

Freebie Friday: Native American Art

September 11, 2015 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday by Jessica Holmes

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from April 5, 2015, “Why I Make Games to Make You Smarter” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. We all know that person who was a great athlete in high school or college that we run into […]

Throwback Thursday: Why I Make Games to Make You Smarter

September 10, 2015 in 7GenGames / Throwback Thursday by Jessica Holmes

Marisol Castillo Schultz — I had the opportunity to research and review Stanford’s YouCubed mathematics site. Not to sound cynical, but when I started my expectations were as follows: toddler math games, links to math games and math activities for students to do at home or in class and half of these are going […]

YouCubed: Math Site Review

September 10, 2015 in Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Math by AnnMaria De Mars

OFFICE OF TOURISM Mission Assignment Date: September 7, 2015 Dear Visa Holder , Congratulations on the approval of your tourist visa. This visa is good for 90 days. Unlike many lands in the world out where you are, 7 Generation Games virtual world allows visitors to earn a resident visa […]

First Virtual World Tourist Visas Issued

September 8, 2015 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

bird — In everyone’s life, some weeks are harder than others. Some days, you’re the statue and other days you’re the pigeon. For a while, I felt like I was getting ahead of the game, adding the math challenges for Aztech, for Forgotten Trail, writing investor reports – and then three people […]

Thanks for Reminding Us Why We Do What We Do

September 8, 2015 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

We’re heading out to Australia in November, so, for the second time in two months, I found myself filling out a visa application. It got me thinking that this would be a great idea for those people who contact me about helping with 7 Generation Games. We […]

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