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Yearly Archives: 2017

Sell the sizzle, not the steak I’ve always hated that Silicon Valley cliche. I know people saying it think they are smartly pointing out that people buy for reasons other than pragmatic ones. We want products that make us feel cool, sexy and superior. That focus on marketing can also […]

Be the solution, not the problem

October 24, 2017 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Whether or not you backed us on Kickstarter, you’d probably find our Family Textbook hilarious. It’s a book of, you guessed it, our family group text. If you didn’t back us on Kickstarter for $50 or more, you won’t be getting one, but you can still read about what you’re […]

“Who said it?” Trivia game from our Family Textbook

October 24, 2017 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

It’s the end of another week and that means that it’s time for another Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is from our game, AzTech Games. The freebie is a video on percentages and it teaches you what a percent is and how to find a percent. View the video on percent […]

Freebie Friday: What is a percent?

October 20, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

If your entire exposure to county extension agents has been the clueless guy on Green Acres, you are about to be pleasantly surprised. I haven’t been blogging much lately because I’ve been criss-crossing the country in planes and automobiles to meet with schools about our games. Maria told me that […]

Sioux County is not your grandmother’s 4H and it’s AMAZING

October 17, 2017 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Happy Friday the 13th! Since it’s Friday, you know what that means. It’s time for another Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is from our game Making Camp. It is a culture video on the Marten Clan. This video teaches you about how Ojibwe tribes were made up of clans, or families, and […]

Freebie Friday – The Marten Clan

October 13, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

Three weeks ago, Puerto Rico was hit by a devastating hurricane. Hurricane Maria, a category 5 hurricane, knocked out 100% of the country’s power. Literally no one on the island had electricity. Today, 84% of the country remains without power, water is scarce if at all available, and the situation […]

Some Quick History Facts About Puerto Rico

October 12, 2017 in Cultural content / Educational Resources by Victoria Moll-Ramírez

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from November 2, 2016 “You May Not Know This About Old Age” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. When I was in my twenties, nearing the end of […]

Throwback Thursday: You May Not Know This About Old Age

October 12, 2017 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

To go or not to go? Every time an invite comes into my mailbox for X random professional event, the first thing I ask is “Is it going to be worth my time?” Then I immediately reply to myself, “Who ever knows?” That’s the reality with all of these professional […]

Deciding which professional networking events to attend

October 11, 2017 in Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

Whether you want to develop websites or games, you are likely to run into the problem of designing for multiple devices. You’ll have a page that looks great on a desktop but not on a phone or tablet. One super easy way to look at the page without switching between […]

Tech Tip: Google Chrome Dev Tools are Free and Awesome

October 11, 2017 in AnnMaria / Tech Tips by AnnMaria De Mars

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