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Yearly Archives: 2017

Marisol Schultz - 7 Generation Games — When you’re not fluent in English and your teacher is trying her best to teach you but the most she can understand or say is “ Si, No, por favor , padres or tarea”, how do you learn? For some of us growing up in a Hispanic household means that […]

The Games I Wish I Had

July 19, 2017 in Educational Resources / Start-up Diaries by Marisol Schultz

Julia and Austin, amused — I must have struck a chord with my previous post on helping (encouraging/ coercing) your adolescent to get a first job. I thought I provided some practical advice but received several emails asking for more. So, being the full service organization we are, here is my follow-up post with more suggestions […]

Parenting Productive Adolescents: Advice Needed

July 15, 2017 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing by AnnMaria De Mars

It’s the end of another week and that means that you get your Freebie Friday today! Today’s freebie is a video from “AzTech Games”. The video teaches you what B.C.E stands for, what timeframe that is, and how to use timelines with B.C.E. You can view the video below. Using […]

Freebie Friday: AzTech Games – Using Timelines With B.C.E.

July 14, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

It has been over a year since we started our podcast. The “more than ordinary” people that we have on More Than Ordinary are awesome and come from a variety of different backgrounds and industries. From lawyers to tattoo artists to Maria and AnnMaria (mostly AnnMaria) ranting, we started our podcast to […]

A Priests Walks into a Bar – Or Our Top ...

July 14, 2017 in 7GenGames / podcast by Irma Barcena

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from April 9, 2016 “Your Baby Is Ugly and Other Start-up Lessons“ that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. It’s almost 6 am here on the east coast, and after […]

Throwback Thursday: Your Baby Is Ugly and Other Start-up Lessons

July 13, 2017 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

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