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Monthly Archives: November 2017

Angie, from Forgotten Trail — Part of making a good game is having believable characters, whether it is Mario, Zelda or the dwarf-hunter in World of Warcraft. If you had watched our Characters Behind the Characters video, you’d know that the voice of Angie is my daughter, Julia De Mars, and the “look” is a […]

Meet Angie: Character development in Forgotten Trail

November 28, 2017 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

When I installed the most recent Windows 10 update, I was disheartened that it broke my current installation, sending me into a panic as I tried to think about what I was going to do for grad school. After a few minutes, I remembered that I had three certifications on […]

The Office 365 Diaries, Part One

November 27, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Resources / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

This morning – after a 16.5 hour flight, a four-hour layover and another 4 hour flight – I touched down in Hyderabad, India, where I’m attending (and pitching at) the Global Entrepreneurship Summit. If you had told me a few months ago that I’d be going to India this year, […]

When Your Startup Takes You Places You Never Expected

November 27, 2017 in Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

If you follow this blog somewhat regularly, you may know that we started a software design project with a couple of alternative schools. How is that going? Thanks for asking. It’s going pretty well. The students have come up with a lot of specific suggestions, not just for improving game […]

Game Suggestions from Student Design Teams

November 27, 2017 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / New earth by AnnMaria De Mars

I am sure that I should be writing a post to tell you all to buy our games, that it is Black Friday , Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday or whatever and your grandma doesn’t need another half-dozen coffee cups. For God’s sake , the woman has been on this […]

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November 26, 2017 in AnnMaria / Code Talk by AnnMaria De Mars

Jose Gonzalez — We all know that teachers don’t get enough credit and recognition (as well as not enough money, supplies … should I go on?). While we cannot give every teacher a pile of cash for his or her classroom, we did want to start a monthly feature recognizing teachers who go […]

TEACHER FEATURE : José Braulio González, Gompers Middle School

November 22, 2017 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from December 20, 2014 “1 and 1/2 secrets of Success” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Three different people asked me this week what was the secret to […]

Throwback Thursday: 1 and 1/2 secrets of Success

November 16, 2017 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

snowy road — During the past few days, I had the opportunity to visit a couple of classrooms on and near the Spirit Lake Dakota Nation and observe their amazing students. We had a report that students were completing the games in half an hour. That didn’t seem possible. We’d had two professional […]

The Amazing Students from Spirit Lake

November 11, 2017 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

It’s time for another Freebie Friday! Today’s freebie is from our game Making Camp. The freebie is a video on math terms. The video goes through the definitions of different terms that you should know when it comes to addition, subtraction, and multiplication. The video also gives you examples of […]

Freebie Friday: Making Camp – Math Terms

November 10, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / 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 November 6, 2014 “Start-up reality: Silicon Snowbanks” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Contrary to appearances, this is not an abandoned blog. For the past couple of […]

Throwback Thursday: Start-up reality: Silicon Snowbanks

November 9, 2017 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

You might have thought the 2017 election season was over after yesterday – you’d be wrong. Well, kind of. We at 7 Generation Games need your vote. If you’re reading this post and thinking, “Where do I go vote?” the answer is right here. (And you can go back and […]

Vote 7 Generation Games into the Global Entrepreneurship Summit Semifinals!

November 9, 2017 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

Hello everyone, it’s Friday and that means that it’s time for the Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is from our game Spirit Lake and it’s a video on a problem solving tip. The problem solving tip is to start at the end of the math word problem. Often, the problem that […]

Freebie Friday – Problem Solving Tip: Start at the End

November 3, 2017 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez