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Yearly Archives: 2016

I get this question all of the time, What’s it like working with your family? In case you don’t know, the three co-founders of 7 Generation Games are my husband, Dennis, me and my daughter, Maria. It’s not how most people seem to think. First of all, we’re not together […]

What’s it like working with your family? Part 347

April 26, 2016 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Giant house screen shot — A few weeks ago, I posted an activity that I had started where the player had to find items in the giant’s house. (Brief background – in Forgotten Trail, there is a legend that involves a giant.) I asked input on options we were considering: Clicking on the item gives […]

Reader Comments Made into a Game

April 25, 2016 in AnnMaria / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

Me thinking blah blah blah — Often people say they really support the work that we do, and although I like to be complimented as much as the next person, I am secretly thinking this: It’s sort of like hashtag activism. While tweeting, “Help our schools #education” probably makes a few teachers feel better, it is […]

The Best Ways to Encourage a Start-up Entrepreneur

April 25, 2016 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

To all of our New York City friends, If you plan on attending the Games for Change – Tribeca Street Fair, we want to meet and talk with you! Offering a full city block of digital and card games, live action games, hands-on building and a parkour obstacle course, the […]

Meet Us This Saturday At Games For Change – Tribeca ...

April 22, 2016 in 7GenGames / Events tagged Aztech / forgotten trail / Games For Change / Games4Change / Maria Burns Ortiz / Tribeca Street Fair by Erick Salomon

Okay, it’s over, you missed hearing me live … I feel your disappointment, so I have linked to the full interview on youtube here. A week ago, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Sara Mohsin about our work at 7 Generation Games. The interview will be on the […]

I’m radio famous!

April 22, 2016 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from September 20, 2014 “Will It Matter in 2026?” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. I doubt I’ll ever do this but it’s an interesting thought …. You hear about people writing letters to […]

Throwback Thursday: Will It Matter In 2026?

April 21, 2016 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged Advice / AnnMaria De Mars / Dr. AnnMaria De Mars / Life / Throwback Thursday by Erick Salomon

There are a lot of days in the year — at least 365, in the case of this year, 366. And yet, it seems like everything in my life always ends up being scheduled on the same day. I’m not talking about Saturdays – if you’ve got kids, you just […]

What are the odds? Trying to figure out why everything ...

April 19, 2016 in Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing by Maria Burns Ortiz

Happy Friday to all of our 7 Generation Games friends! Before you start making plans for this weekend, here’s your chance to try our games for FREE!!! We are offering demos for: Spirit Lake and Fish Lake. This allows you the opportunity to test out and enjoy the games before […]

Freebie Friday: Try Before You Buy!

April 15, 2016 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday tagged Demo / Demos / Fish Lake / Freebie Friday / Spirit Lake by Erick Salomon

Last month the 7 Generation Games team attended the California Association of Bilingual Education (CABE) 2016 conference in San Francisco, CA. As part of our presence there, our CEO, Maria Burns Ortiz and educator Jovi Buendia, presented a proposal entitled: Educational Games for ELL: State of the Art. The talk […]

CABE 2016 – Educational Games for ELL: State of the ...

April 14, 2016 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries tagged CABE / CABE 2016 / Educational Games for ELL State of the Art / Jovi Buendia / Maria Burns Ortiz / Powerpoint by Erick Salomon

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from November 9, 2014 “Something I Learned as a Grown-Up: More Than One Way is Right” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. It’s been 17 years since I lived in North Dakota, so when […]

Throwback Thursday: Something I Learned as a Grown-Up: More Than ...

April 14, 2016 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged Advice / AnnMaria De Mars / Dr. AnnMaria De Mars / Growing Up / Throwback Thursday by Erick Salomon

teachers — Forgotten Trail will be available next week, Aztech in another month, and we’re already working on updates and expansion. It’s true as a wise man once told me, Great games are like great artwork. They are never finished. They are just abandoned. Our latest project is adding levels of difficulty […]

Giving Students Control in Math Class

April 12, 2016 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

We’re celebrating the end of another busy week. Today’s Freebie is the Understanding Bar Graphs PowerPoint presentation from our upcoming game, AzTech: UNDERSTANDING BAR GRAPHS – PowerPoint Presentation This presentation complements the Common Core-aligned Number and Operations in Base 10 standards. These charts and graphs are found and used within the game! […]

Freebie Friday: AzTech – Understanding Bar Graphs

April 8, 2016 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday tagged Aztech / Bar Graphs / Teacher Resource by Erick Salomon