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Monthly Archives: August 2017

We just launched a Kickstarter campaign for our upcoming bilingual games series, AzTech Games! (Back us please!) After weeks of planning and pulling together the video/determining rewards/lining up rollout/putting together the project page, now the real work begins. Doing a Kickstarter is kind of like having a baby. You spend and […]

Why We’re Doing Another Kickstarter

August 10, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

If you haven’t read, seen or heard about the latest hand-wringing over the lack of diversity in tech, just wait for the next one. It goes like this: Someone at some huge tech company does something sexist/ racist There is a lot of hand-wringing/ tweeting over how tech is predominantly […]

Women in Tech: Self-fulfilling prophecies

August 8, 2017 in AnnMaria / Women in Tech by AnnMaria De Mars

grandchild — You know that old joke , “If I’d known children were this much fun, I’d have had them first.” Game design is like that. I know, you are probably siding with Maria and asking, “Is this like her ‘push-ups for the brain’ , where I can’t see how it […]

Game Design: You can’t have your grandchildren first

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

push-ups — Maria hates my push-ups analogy for our games but I think it is totally accurate. No one’s entire workout consists of push-ups. However, just about every athlete does push-ups at some time or another. Just about everyone can do push-ups. Maybe not equally well or an equal number, but I […]

Push-ups for your brain

August 6, 2017 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Math by AnnMaria De Mars

It’s time for another “Freebie Friday”. Today’s freebie is from our game AzTech. It is a pdf file on one of the math problems from the game. The math problem deals with time and distance and takes you through the steps of how to solve the problem. Click on the […]

Freebie Friday: Grandma Goes To Honduras

August 4, 2017 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 May 8, 2016 “We Can’t All Be Mothers but We Can All Be Mentors“ that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Since I already called my mom on Mother’s […]

Throwback Thursday: We Can’t All Be Mothers but We Can ...

August 3, 2017 in AnnMaria tagged AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

Angie — 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. This conflict is even greater when the child has a disability. Parents often see their child as vulnerable because of […]

Parenting Adolescents with Disabilities

August 1, 2017 in AnnMaria / Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing by AnnMaria De Mars