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Monthly Archives: February 2017

Ronda on Facetime — Much of my time is spent in hotel rooms, as I travel from state to state providing teacher in-services, presenting at conferences and generally promoting 7 Generation Games as a great educational tool and a way for kids to learn and have fun(adults ,too – we won’t judge you – […]

My Life as a Reality TV Star

February 28, 2017 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Squirrel — At least a hundred times, I’ve wanted to find whoever coined that phrase, “Fake it until you make it” and scream in their face “Look at the idiocy I have to put up with! See what you started!” Then, I calm down and realize that I have used that exact […]

Your Guide to Faking It Until You Make It

February 26, 2017 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech by AnnMaria De Mars

picking herbs in woods — Often, we have differences of opinion within our team on how games ought to be designed. Here is one discussion we are having right now and I did not have a strong opinion one way or the other so I decided to crowdsource it (which sounds way more intelligent than […]

Give us your opinion on game design

February 25, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

Making Camp is a game that teaches multiplication and division — There are certain questions that arise (torment you!) when you work in IT in the school system. For those of you who don’t need to worry about FERPA or supervised iPads or administrator passwords, just continue on with your happy lives. For you brave souls in IT, read on for […]

For the (school) IT crowd

February 24, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

It’s time for another Freebie Friday! Today’s freebie is from our game “AzTech Games”. The freebie is a video titled “2 1/2 = 2.5” and teaches how to make a fraction and a decimal equal to each other. You can view the video below. 2 1/1 = 2.5 This resource […]

Freebie Friday: AzTech Games – 2 1/2 = 2.5 Video

February 24, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

It is Week 3 of our Internet Field Trip Fridays! We are also one week closer to Spring. But what exactly does that mean? Think about it, the first day of winter was Dec. 21st. The first day of spring is March 20th. Here’s your winter breakdown: 10 days in […]

Internet Field Trip Fridays: An Overview on Teaching Fractions

February 24, 2017 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Resources / Math by Victoria Moll-Ramírez

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from January 3, 2015 “New Year’s Resolutions“ that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. According to the New York Times, 45% of people make New Year’s resolutions and although […]

Throwback Thursday: New Year’s Resolutions

February 23, 2017 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

It’s early in the morning when my coworker Diana and I met up at her house to discuss our strategy. Why are we meeting early in the morning to discuss a strategy? Well, it’s going to be my first time stepping into a classroom where I won’t be a student! […]

Developer Diary: Back To School

February 23, 2017 in 7GenGames / Code Talk / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Start-up Diaries tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games by Jose Sotelo

fire — The only ones who like firing people are psychotic nut jobs. (I had other words but Maria has an average number of swear words per post for this blog and I am saving up for when I really need them.) Someone was complaining to me today about employees that needed […]

You’re Fired! When you have to fire an employee

February 22, 2017 in Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

We’ve told you about the Dakota/Sioux and the Ojibwe so as we continue to grow and expand our awesome games it’s time to start telling you about the Aztecs. AzTech Games, our latest brainchild coming out this year, is a series of games that teach mathematics at the fifth and sixth grade […]

Who Were The Aztecs?

February 21, 2017 in 7GenGames / Cultural content by Victoria Moll-Ramírez

Happy Friday! Since it’s Friday, we’re giving you another weekly dose of the #FreebieFriday. Today’s freebie is the math pretest for our game Spirit Lake. You can use this pretest online for free. You can use this online math pretest whether you are or are not using our games. It’s […]

Freebie Friday: Spirit Lake – Math Pretest

February 17, 2017 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

It’s Friday and it’s still winter so that means we’re still cold and Punxsutawney Phil is still prevailing. Well, unless you’re in North Dakota like our executive team was this week – where everyone is talking about the “heatwave” in the 40s. Either way, our field trips continue! We started last Friday […]

Internet Field Trip Fridays: Ojibwe Language

February 17, 2017 in Cultural content / Uncategorized by Victoria Moll-Ramírez