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Yearly Archives: 2016

fish — Several years ago, I had the privilege of attending a lecture by Albert Bandura (he happens to be the most-cited psychologist alive). He discussed one of his current research projects on what determines happiness. The key factor that stuck out to me was “An absence of self-ruminative thoughts.” This evening, […]

Late Nights and the Secret to Happiness

November 7, 2016 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

I spent a few hours yesterday making a new product video for 7 Generation Games. It was an updated one that include footage from our iPad app. And before that I had been working on an umpteenth version of our deck because every time I need a deck – whether […]

Making the Most with What You’ve Got

November 4, 2016 in Uncategorized by Maria Burns Ortiz

Hello everyone! It’s Friday and that means that it’s time for the weekend, but before that we have another great Freebie Friday for you today! Today’s freebie comes to you from our game Aztech. The Aztech freebie is a powerpoint presentation on reading a pictograph. The powerpoint shows what a […]

Freebie Friday: Reading a Pictograph

November 4, 2016 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from November 27, 2013 “The Care and Feeding of Developers” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. After a fine, productive evening of coding PHP and javascript respectively, The […]

Throwback Thursday: The Care and Feeding of Developers

November 3, 2016 in 7GenGames / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

I’m really excited about the potential in our new iPad app, Making Camp. I’ve been taking an online course on mobile web design and it reminded me of all of the cool features we could use for mobile devices. We could use geolocation to compute distance from where the student […]

Mobile Development and Teachers’ Professional Development

November 2, 2016 in Game Progress / Start-up Diaries / Tech Tips by AnnMaria De Mars

boy and girl on computers playing our games — This evening, my granddaughter didn’t feel like watching her sister’s soccer practice, so she came over and proceeded to spend the next two hours playing with clay. We happen to have 50 different colors and a couple of play sets. While she was making her creations, she frequently stopped to […]

Why Do You Care So Much?

November 2, 2016 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

on the water with my particle — Hello, again. It’s Kelly from Rapid City, here on the parental front confronting the challenge of teaching my little particle more about the culture of first peoples than he is going to learn any typical fourth-grade classroom. 7 Generation Games provides authentic, historically correct first peoples’ context for math learning! […]

Field Notes from the Parental Front: Teaching Culture

November 2, 2016 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM by AnnMaria De Mars

Last year, I missed my daughter’s Halloween costume contest. I wouldn’t say it seemed like a “big” thing, but it was a thing. Halloween at her school features a class-by-class parade and all the kids march around in their costumes, with a costume contest where they select winners from each […]

Why It’s Not Worth Feeling Guilty

October 31, 2016 in Uncategorized by Maria Burns Ortiz

It’s Friday, so that means that it’s time for another Freebie Friday. Welcome! Today’s freebie is associated with our game Spirit Lake and it’s an authentic and copyright-free Native American photo. To be more specific, the photo is of Sioux reservation life in South Dakota. This photo shows the Sioux […]

Freebie Friday – Sioux Reservation Life in South Dakota

October 28, 2016 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

Interacting with experts in educational technology, I sometimes wonder if they inhabit a different world from me. In this world, installing software is not an issue, Internet speed is no problem and every child has a computer or iPad. I hope I get to visit there some day. I spent […]

The EdTech Problem No one Talks About

October 27, 2016 in Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from August 20, 2013 “Women in Tech: Why am I here?” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Dave Winer set off a firestorm with his blog post asking […]

Throwback Thursday – Women in Tech: Why am I ...

October 27, 2016 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

by Kelly Barnes To help understand families of children playing 7 Generation Games, AnnMaria asked me to weigh in on 7 Generation Games as a parent, PTA volunteer and front-line in the efforts to improve our schools and society for the next generations. So, here you go, your first missive […]

Notes from the Parental Front

October 25, 2016 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars