Games That Make You Smarter

AnnMaria

This category is for posts written by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars.

7GenBanner — “We need someone to talk to the students about STEM. Quick, get that one Hispanic lady with a Ph.D. that runs a tech start-up and teaches statistics.” At least, that’s how I imagine that it goes when I keep getting invited to speak at schools – elementary schools, middle schools, […]

The Hardest Part of Educational Games

November 11, 2014 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from April 15 2012 on, “Start-up truisms that are, well, true” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. The very first month I started this blog, four years ago, I wrote a short […]

Throwback Thursday: Start-up truisms that are, well, true

November 6, 2014 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries tagged entrepreneur / startup by AnnMaria De Mars

Tasina - 7 Generation Games — The problem with a start-up is you don’t have defined tasks, defined hours, defined anything really. For the past three days, I have been working on every single page of Spirit Lake: The Game, trying to improve every piece of the game, large and small. I added in the multiplication […]

How much is enough? When is a game ‘good enough’ ...

October 30, 2014 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Educational Games / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from February 17, 2014 on, “Whatever Happened to Graduate Research?” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. I read this recently in a powerpoint that came with a research methods textbook If answering […]

Throwback Thursday: Whatever happened to graduate research?

October 30, 2014 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged Doctorate Degree / Graduate Research / Graduate Students by AnnMaria De Mars

7GenBanner — Almost 30 years ago, I was teaching in a middle school for students who were severely emotional disturbed. I had the idea that if I could make a game to teach them mathematics, they could be keeping up with their academics while the school counselors, therapists and group home staff […]

Where your game donations go

October 27, 2014 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

tank — If I see one more tweet, video or Facebook post lamenting “if only there were women making games” or “how do we get women in technology”, I think I am going to go all Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Grand Theft Auto and steal a car loaded with weapons […]

What do women in tech need to do to get ...

October 26, 2014 in AnnMaria / Founders Corner / Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech tagged Women in Tech / Women that make video games by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from November 25, 2012 on “The Benefits of Growing Your Own: The view from the code monkey cage” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. Last week, I wrote about my […]

Throwback Thursday: The view from the code monkey cage

October 23, 2014 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Game Progress / Throwback Thursday by AnnMaria De Mars

dog — Interesting that @x4GY has only tweeted 20 times and yet I found one of those tweets very much worth quoting. “It may not be possible to be 100% better than your competition but you can be 1% better in 100 ways.” Even though I am pretty darn far from Gen […]

100 Improvements and a multiplication dog

October 18, 2014 in AnnMaria / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from January 19, 2012 on Learning from the mistakes of others that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. Three times within a very short period I have seen technology offerings that […]

Throwback Thursday: Learning from the mistakes of others

October 16, 2014 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

7GenBanner — Tina Thomas has worked as an accessibility consultant for our parent company, The Julia Group, for many years. Today, she and I were reviewing our game design. She uses JAWS for a screen reader . She also has an iPhone 6 plus that has accessibility software built-in at no extra […]

Games for children who are blind – and everyone ...

October 14, 2014 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

bass (the fish) — For months we have been working on improvements to our next game, Fish Lake. Day after day, it was like piling up pebbles, fixing this line of code, brushing up that graphic. As usual, the first version had its share of glitches. It seemed like progress was going really […]

Fish Lake Rocks

October 10, 2014 in AnnMaria / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from April 16, 2014 on The Benefits of Being Uncool that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. Tom Peters has written quite a bit about the huge market opportunities in providing goods and […]

Throwback Thursday: The Benefits of Being Uncool

October 9, 2014 in AnnMaria tagged computer games / EdTech / education by AnnMaria De Mars