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

We are working on a new game, set on an American Indian reservation, Crossroads, and we have a female character named, Jessie and a male character named ? He is supposed to be from a tribe in the Great Plains and live on or near the reservation. He has a […]

Name this guy!

September 10, 2018 in AnnMaria / Cultural content / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from September 4, 2015 “Randomness” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Life has been really crazy lately and I haven’t been blogging as much. We’re in the Boom […]

Throwback Thursday: Randomness

September 6, 2018 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from June 14, 2015 “More Advice on Life: Enjoy it While It Happens” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. “Advice # 4: Appreciate how great life really […]

Throwback Thursday – More Advice on Life: Enjoy it While ...

August 30, 2018 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from May 2, 2015 “NOT DEAD YET and The R Word” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. I’m not quite to the age where when I drop […]

Throwback Thursday: NOT DEAD YET and The R Word

August 23, 2018 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

trail on top of a mountain — A lot of people say they are a workaholic but they actually work for half an hour, check Facebook for half an hour, work for another half-hour, fix themselves a snack, and so on. Their 12- 14 hour work day is more like a 6 or 7 hours of actual […]

Testing a theory that you don’t have to die at ...

August 18, 2018 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

words activities from Making Camp Premium — What do grammar fixes in our games and not swearing at your students have in common? Now, you, Ms. or Mr. 5th Grade Teacher, have probably never even considered telling Emma or Devon or D’emery that you are going to skin them alive and send the hides home to their […]

Because Details Matter: 100 little tweaks and not swearing at ...

August 16, 2018 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from August 15, 2015 “What I Learned About Life On My Birthday” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. It was seven years ago this week that Ronda […]

Throwback Thursday: What I Learned About Life On My Birthday

August 16, 2018 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from March 20, 2016 “Some Day Will Be Your Last Day on the Field” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Wow, it’s been a minute! I didn’t […]

Throwback Thursday: Some Day Will Be Your Last Day on ...

August 9, 2018 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

road outside of Tomé — You’d certainly hope after seven months in Chile I would have learned something, right? In fact, I think I’ve gained both professionally and personally. Life is lived forwards but understood backwards. For example, I never knew when I was training for the world championships that it would prepare me for […]

What did I learn in Chile?

August 8, 2018 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Here’s the vicious circle, few people like to do things they do very poorly, but it takes practice to get good which they don’t want to do because they are bad at math/ English/ violin/ whatever. It’s amazing that anyone learns anything, isn’t it? We can learn a lot about […]

Helping kids like school: There’s an app for that

August 5, 2018 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Educational Resources by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from December 8, 2016 “Mostly harmless” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. I often think we admire the wrong traits in people. On the long (three hour!) […]

Throwback Thursday: Mostly harmless

August 2, 2018 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

words activities from Making Camp Premium — If you only teach students who have English as their first language and you’ve never tried to learn a second language yourself then maybe you don’t realize how hard it is to be really fluent. As someone who has lived for an extended period in three very different countries where […]

Teaching English isn’t a piece of cake

August 1, 2018 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars