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Monthly Archives: December 2017

Here’s the problem – at the start of Aztech: The Story Begins, the characters are in a history classroom and have to take a pop quiz. Players click on a highlighted word and three choices appear for definition. Clicking on the wrong definition turns the word red and plays a […]

Solving the monkey click problem: Easiest way to temporarily disable ...

December 31, 2017 in AnnMaria / Code Talk by AnnMaria De Mars

It’s Friday and that means that it’s time for the Freebie Friday. Today isn’t just any regular Friday, it’s the last Friday of the year! Hope everyone has a great weekend ringing in the new year. But before then, we have another freebie for you. Today’s freebie is from Aztech […]

Freebie Friday – Aztech Clip Art

December 29, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from December 13, 2013 “Demo of Spirit Lake: The Game” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. This is my day job. For those of you who thought […]

Throwback Thursday – Demo of Spirit Lake: The Game

December 28, 2017 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Educational Games / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / AnnMaria / EducationalGames / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from December 12, 2010 “The Opposite of Lazy Isn’t Disciplined” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. It’s often been said that judo, football and other sports teach […]

Throwback Thursday: The Opposite of Lazy Isn’t Disciplined

December 22, 2017 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

In Spanish: When are we? Where are we ? — Life is sweet. After months of revisions, translations and testing, Aztech: Meet the Maya will be submitted to the app store by the time I get done drinking this martini. Champagne would be more appropriate but it was after midnight when we made the last mandatory change and all the […]

Eating my own dog food: Learning Spanish from a game

December 21, 2017 in AnnMaria / Dog food / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Characters on snow background — I’ll confess right up front that I’m not as organized as I’d like to be when it comes to game design or, well, anything. However, let’s pretend I was. In that case, I’d start out by considering what assets I need for the Caves and Ladders game I discussed in […]

Game Design Basics: Assets

December 21, 2017 in AnnMaria / Code Talk / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Game Background — As you may have heard, I will be heading to Santiago in about a month to be part of Startup Chile, where I’ll be expanding our line of bilingual games for the Latin American market. First on the agenda is to do a Latin American version of Making Camp. The […]

Designing my way to Chile, Part 1

December 20, 2017 in AnnMaria / Code Talk / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Mountains in Chile — For the tl;dr crowd, this post has two lessons: Never underestimate your own influence. Never miss an opportunity to learn from anyone you meet. This whole journey that ends with me in Santiago, Chile, started with a conversation with a teacher from a small school in Missouri. I had a […]

How Listening to a Teacher from Missouri Led Me to ...

December 17, 2017 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from October 20, 2016 “Seeing Further Down the Road: Why Your Parents Think Different From You” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. At the National Indian Education Association […]

Throwback Thursday – Seeing Further Down the Road: Why Your ...

December 14, 2017 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

The holidays are coming and you’re probably already stressed out about your Christmas list- family you like, family you dislike, friends, coworkers, teachers, etc. Then, once you buy everything you have to wrap it! UGH! That’s the worst part, especially if the gift is oddly shaped. Wouldn’t it be nice if […]

Top Reasons to Buy Digital Gifts This Holiday Season

December 13, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Games tagged 7GenGames / Digital Gifts / Educational Games / Holiday Season by Victoria Moll-Ramírez

graph — As I mentioned in another blog, I’m teaching statistics to Fine Arts majors next semester and I decided the best way was NOT to have them compute the area under the normal curve between two z-scores. So, what am I doing? I’m starting in the first place by asking statistical […]

Learning Statistics with Graphs

December 9, 2017 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Resources by AnnMaria De Mars

I’ve been sitting here trying to draft a list of things my kids want that I actually want them to have so that I can send out the Christmas lists everyone keeps asking me for. Now don’t get me wrong, I love Christmas. But I am also at the point […]

Here’s to Buying Less Junk This Holiday Season

December 5, 2017 in Uncategorized by Maria Burns Ortiz