Monthly Archives: October 2016

How can we make our games better? That’s one of the two questions we tackle every single day at 7 Generation Games. (The second being “How can we get our games in the hands of as many players as possible?”) And the reality is, part of the answer to the […]

Help us make our games better, and get credit for ...

October 19, 2016 in 7GenGames by Maria Burns Ortiz

Kid bad at math? Here’s your magic wand

October 17, 2016 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

We’re in the Tech Inclusion Top 10!

October 17, 2016 in 7GenGames / Women in Tech by Maria Burns Ortiz

frog and lily pad — I really do like teachers. You know I do. I used to be a teacher, my brother is a teacher and my daughter is a teacher – all at the middle school level. Currently, in our spare time of which we have none, my brother, sister and I all teach […]

Teachers need to quit hating on business

October 17, 2016 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

It’s the end of another week and that means that it’s time for the Freebie Friday! Today’s freebie comes to you from our game Spirit Lake and it’s a Powerpoint Presentation and PDF on Teaching Long Division. Download either the Powerpoint or PDF below. Teaching Long Division TEACHING LONG DIVISION […]

Freebie Friday: Teaching Long Division

October 14, 2016 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

Muskrat — You would think as a company creating software for education, both in school and at home, that we would be discouraged by an article with the title “Why For-Profit Education Fails”. You would be wrong. In fact, I agree with pretty much all of the Atlantic article but I found […]

Why we won’t fail

October 14, 2016 in Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from March 18, 2014 “No one should be discouraged from computer science” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. I read a blog post where the author said the […]

Throwback Thursday: No one should be discouraged from computer science

October 13, 2016 in 7GenGames / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

Accent Mark shown correctly — Since we just had our Latino tech meet up, this seems like the perfect time to give a tech tip on getting those Spanish-language accent marks right in your HTML. Look closely at this image below. It’s part of what was in one of our pretests that assess our game. […]

Tech tip: accent marks for Spanish text

October 13, 2016 in Start-up Diaries / Tech Tips by AnnMaria De Mars

Both my daughters play soccer, so I guess that makes me a “soccer mom.” Now, I suppose this has been the case for the last couple years as my older daughter played soccer since she was 6, but it really shifted this year when she moved up to the U-10 […]

Observations of a “Soccer Mom”

October 12, 2016 in Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing by Maria Burns Ortiz

Do you know how many times we’ve heard people say “There just aren’t any Latinos in tech”? Every time this happens, we at 7 Generation Games wave our hands and say, “Hey what about us over here?” (Well, actually AnnMaria waves her hands, stands on a chair and grabs a bullhorn…) […]