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Monthly Archives: October 2017

Julia doing a science experiment — You know that saying, “When life hands you lemons, make lemonade” Well, my week has been something like that. I was showing our Spirit Lake demo at a school and realized that it HAD NOT BEEN UPDATED IN THREE YEARS !! The demo was supposed to look like this: … […]

Making Software Design from Lemons (or something like that)

October 9, 2017 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / New earth / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Jennifer looking sadly at the laptop — Introverts, unite! Often, whether it is interviewing guests on the More Than Ordinary podcast or talking to teachers in general, I ask how they accommodate students who are more introverted and don’t want to work in groups. Inevitably, I get the answer, “People HAVE to work in groups in their […]

How Do I Handle Introverted Students?

October 8, 2017 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

Hello everyone! It’s that time of the week again. Yes, it’s time for the Freebie Friday! Today’s freebie is from our game Spirit Lake and it’s two pieces of clip art. The clip art are of Native American items. The first item is a weaved basket and the second item […]

Freebie Friday: Spirit Lake Clip Art

October 6, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from October 14, 2016 “Statistics save the world” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. […]

Throwback Thursday: Statistics save the world

October 5, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

edison dog — A couple months ago, I was at a tech conference and asked another startup founder how big her company’s team was. “We’re 8 people and one dog,” she told me. Up until that conversation, I was not aware that dogs could be part of the startup team – and according […]

Edison, the 7 Generation Games Startup Dog and Wonder Pet

October 4, 2017 in 7GenGames by Maria Burns Ortiz

water garden and wilshire offices — Anyone who runs a startup will tell you it borders on being life-consuming. There’s no 9-to-5, You’re constantly working on building your company, including evenings and weekends and those times you wake up in the middle of the night realizing you need to email someone back and that you still […]

Taking My Work Home With Me – To The Extreme

October 4, 2017 in Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

Making Camp bilingual — I’ll give it to you in one sentence. History class was boring. With two exceptions, (thank you, Mr. MacPhail and Dr. Perkoff), from kindergarten through graduate school, all of my history courses were nothing but names and dates. This guy was king on this day and this war ended on […]

The Reason I Hated History Class (& what I did ...

October 4, 2017 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

I have read a lot of stories about Windows 10S , the new operating system from Microsoft that is supposed to be safe, secure and speedy (what does the S stand for, anyway?). I asked Gonzalo to install it on one of the office Windows laptops because Fish Lake and […]

Windows 10S Passes the Test

October 3, 2017 in Tech Tips by AnnMaria De Mars