Yearly Archives: 2015

Fish Lake: Our second game is now commercially available!

February 10, 2015 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Game Progress / Start-up Diaries tagged Fish Lake Release by admin

Last week I wrote a blog about Expecting the Unexpected and the importance of being prepared for any obstacle that comes your way. The 7 Generation Games team was 1,772 miles from home, had no electricity, internet, or cell phone service, but we were still able to host a successful training session for teachers […]

7 Generation Games North Dakota Tour By Numbers

February 9, 2015 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech tagged AnnMaria De Mars / Fish Lake / North Dakota by admin

Julia doing a science experiment — Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them … is the first of the Common Core standards for mathematical practice. It addresses two problems I see VERY often. Whether completing a worksheet or playing a math game, students just pick the first answer that comes to mind. If nothing comes […]

Why I Won’t Make Our Math Games Easier

February 8, 2015 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Spirit Lake Teacher Resources — We are pleased to present a free demo of our Spirit Lake game for download on both PC and Mac. Save your tribe from an epidemic, escape rabid wolves and hunt buffalo, learn about Dakota culture, all while practicing multiplication and division. This demo consists of a portion of the […]

Freebie Friday: Download the first level of Spirit Lake: The ...

February 6, 2015 in 7GenGames tagged Free Download / Spirit Lake by admin

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from February 14, 2008 on “Teaching Technique: Sounds of Silence” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. Silence is one of the most under-used teaching techniques. As Julia learns mathematics, I […]

Throwback Thursday- Teaching Technique: Sounds of Silence

February 5, 2015 in AnnMaria / Math / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria De Mars / Math / teaching by AnnMaria De Mars

7 Generation Games CEO, AnnMaria De Mars, will be featured as the Keynote Speaker at the 6th Annual Livingston’s Young Women’s Conference on Saturday, March 28, 2015. The event will take place on from 8am to 3:30pm at Livingston Middle School which is located in Livingston, CA. This is a free event […]

AnnMaria De Mars presents at Livingston’s Young Women’s Conference as ...

February 4, 2015 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Events / Women in Tech tagged AnnMaria DeMars / Free Event / Keynote Speaker / Young Women's Conference by admin

Last week, 7 Generation Games flew to North Dakota to install our educational video games in five schools on two reservations. AnnMaria De Mars, CEO of 7 Generation Games, has explained MANY times the importance of being prepared for any situation because there are frequently situations that occur where technology just doesn’t […]

Expect the Unexpected

February 3, 2015 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech tagged Always Be Prepared / Doomsday Prepper / educational video games / Indian Reservation / Native American / North Dakota by admin

7 Generation Games flew to North Dakota this week to meet with school superintendents and teachers to install our educational video games in their classrooms and computer labs. Altogether we met with 52 teachers on our trip and and provided on-site training at five different schools. We were able to visit schools on the Turtle Mountain […]

7 Generation Games North Dakota Tour

January 30, 2015 in 7GenGames / Cultural content / Educational Games tagged Canada / Geographic Center of North America / International Peace Garden / North Dakota / Spirit Lake / Sully Hill / Turtle Mountain by admin

snow — Documenting the excitement of our lives with evrybit.

The Glamour of Business Travel

January 27, 2015 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

Featuring cake, singing by yours truly and video games Two days and a couple thousand miles later We installed Fish Lake and the newly-released super-improved Spirit Lake 2015 at Ojibwa Indian School. We’ll be installing both games in five schools in North Dakota this week. We’re scheduled to go into […]

Fish Lake Release Celebration

January 26, 2015 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

old computer — My last post, I ranted about Windows security features. In the interest of fair play, today I am complaining about Mac. I understand the reasoning behind all of this. Malware is downloaded from the internet or carried as a virus on media like a flash drive and does bad things […]

Mac Tip on Opening from Unidentified Developer

January 25, 2015 in AnnMaria / FAQ tagged Mac OSX / unidentified developer by AnnMaria De Mars

Dennis is upstairs swearing right now, while I am being annoyed in my office downstairs. No, we have not had a lover’s quarrel (as if!). We are both irritated – with Windows. Windows seems to have been designed with the philosophy that, really, most people are too stupid to use […]

Smart Screen & Other Windows Annoyances

January 22, 2015 in AnnMaria / FAQ by AnnMaria De Mars

Games That Make You Smarter