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Monthly Archives: July 2017

100 elementary school kids with our posters — Everyone deserves free and equal access to the internet. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to change that by repealing net neutrality. If the FCC is successful, students and educators will suffer, especially those in marginalized schools. Net neutrality is the internet’s guiding principle that protects our right to communicate […]

Net Neutrality Gives Marginalized Students and Educators More Opportunities to ...

July 13, 2017 in 7GenGames by Eric Ortiz

If you’re not watching our 7 Generation Games TV YouTube account, you’re missing out! You can find videos of behind-the-scenes and the daily life of our office. If you have’t dedicated at least 10 minutes to our channel, which you should because what human being ISN’T on the internet nowadays, […]

Top 5 7GenGamesTV Videos

July 12, 2017 in 7GenGames / Reality Show / Start-up Diaries by Irma Barcena

This is one in a series of posts on building an Android app. You can read my previous post on expansion files and AndroidManifest.XML here When you create a new project Android studio will add default libraries to be able to build your application and wrap it as an .apk. […]

Libraries: A key part of building an Android app

July 12, 2017 in Code Talk by AnnMaria De Mars

Dr. Longie — By Dr. Erich Longie, Spirit Lake Dakota Nation As was stated in a previous post … The Dakota cultivated perseverance. Traditionally, rules were rules of survival and if they weren’t followed, the whole tribe was at risk. Those who enforced the rules persevered in their chastisements until individuals conformed to the law. […]

Fear is the greatest enemy of perseverance: Video games and ...

July 10, 2017 in 7GenGames / Cultural content by AnnMaria De Mars

sonogram of Julia — I have been teaching a very long time and in a wide swath of this country. I taught math to middle school students who were attending a special school due to severe behavioral and emotional problems. I taught developmental psychology, creating one of the first online courses ever offered at […]

What I learn from teaching while running a startup

July 9, 2017 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Women in Tech by AnnMaria De Mars

modeling a problem — Last week, I shared with you my joy and excitement of fishing. To update you, I became a better fisherwoman! So the nets are definitely my forte and not the fishing pole. And who knows! My next trip in Iowa (which happens to be the setting of our upcoming game AzTech: […]

I Still Cannot Fish, But I Can Divide

July 8, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Games by Irma Barcena

It’s Friday, so that means that it’s time for the Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is from our game “Spirit Lake” and is a powerpoint and pdf on our video “5 Things To Know About Subtraction”. We had previously shared our video “5 Things To Know About Subtraction” as a freebie […]

Freebie Friday: Spirit Lake “5 Things To Know About Subtraction” ...

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

Maria — Excuse me if I don’t feel all empowered by this recent uproar about women in tech and the recognition of how poorly women are treated. As if this is some big revelation that people are suddenly having. As if it’s actually something that’s going to change now because now people are […]

Lots of Outrage, Little Action on Issues Women in Tech ...

July 7, 2017 in Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech by Maria Burns Ortiz

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from April 17, 2016 “The Number One Piece of Advice for Stress Relief“ that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Whenever you find yourself overworked or tired out, it’s […]

Throwback Thursday: The Number One Piece of Advice for Stress ...

July 6, 2017 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

I posted this on LinkedIn a few months ago. I thought given the current news cycle, and some recent responses, I’d post it here. Recently, someone advised me not to mention that we are a woman-owned company or Latina-owned company. He said, “Your products are good enough to stand on […]

Should we hide that we’re a women-owned company ?

July 4, 2017 in AnnMaria / Women in Tech by AnnMaria De Mars

Screen shot from Aztech — History is written by the victors. Winston Churchill popularized this saying in the 1930s, and throughout time, there are many examples of winners writing history. As a result, official records of what happened can be distorted. For the whole story, we have to read someone like Howard Zinn, who wrote […]

History Has Many Stories — and We Can Learn More ...

July 4, 2017 in 7GenGames / Cultural content by Eric Ortiz

Julia holding shopping bag — It’s not easy being the parent of an adolescent under any circumstances. Parents want to protect and care for their children. Youth want to experience life, to become young adults. If you find the transition to adulthood easy, your family is the lucky exception. In the next few posts, I’ll offer […]

Parenting Adolescents: Get a Job, Kid

July 3, 2017 in AnnMaria / Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing by AnnMaria De Mars