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It’s that time of the week again. You guessed it, it’s time for another Freebie Friday! Today’s freebie is from Spirit Lake and it’s a powerpoint presentation and pdf on probability. The ppt and pdf are an introduction to probability, probability 101. The material teaches you what probability is and […]

Freebie Friday: Probability

February 23, 2018 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

When my oldest daughter was 2.5 years old, she decided to learn the alphabet and had me drill her on flashcards until she got it down. Differentiating Z and S was the biggest challenge, but once she had that down then she was off. We never worried about her doing […]

How I Know Blended Learning Works

February 22, 2018 in Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing by Maria Burns Ortiz

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from May 9, 2015 “How to Deal with Bullying” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. I’ve been asked a few times recently to give advice on bullying […]

Throwback Thursday: How to Deal with Bullying

February 22, 2018 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

Who can teachers trust more for classroom resources than other educators? Teachers Pay Teachers is a platform for teachers to share PowerPoints, videos, lesson plans, and any other classroom materials with other educators, including teachers, parents, afterschool care providers and homeschoolers. Teachers can work up to 16 hours a day […]

The Power of Team Work: Teachers Pay Teachers Feedback

February 21, 2018 in Uncategorized by Hannah Wren

Calling all cat owners, 7 Generation Games is having a cat contest! Do you have a cat as adorable as our intern Hannah’s (pictured below)? We need a cat character for our games and want your help for inspiration. If you’ve played Forgotten Trail, you might remember the part where […]

Looking for Cat Pictures!

February 21, 2018 in 7GenGames tagged 7 Generatio Games / cat / cat contest / computer games by Hannah Wren

Who says English majors can’t work for tech companies? Before I started at 7 Generation Games, I worked for the UCLA call center, where I cold-called parents and alumni to raise money for student resources and scholarships. I’ll never forget that after telling an alum that I was an English […]

Intern Diaries Part Two: Who says English majors can’t work ...

February 20, 2018 in 7GenGames / Newsletter / Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech tagged English majors / intern diaries / Start-Up / tech by Hannah Wren

rabbit — “School is the one place where we labor each alone.” For teachers, that no longer needs to be true. If you aren’t familiar with the Teachers Pay Teachers site for getting educational resources, well, the name is pretty obvious. If you’re a teacher and you have a cool lesson plan, […]

Teachers Pay Teachers

February 20, 2018 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Resources by AnnMaria De Mars

Making Camp Bilingual wigwam — Many high schools require two years of a foreign language, for some reason I cannot figure out, because no one in Chile speaks second-year Spanish. I’ve been here two weeks now and not a single person has asked me to conjugate the verb “estar”. There are apps for learning vocabulary […]

No one in Chile speaks 2nd-year Spanish

February 19, 2018 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Spirit Lake linked to buy game — Our CEO, Maria, always tells me that I should not swear on the company blog. Today is trying my patience in complying with that policy because I think some of the ways math is taught are just unbelievably, inexplicably stupid. Take the counting up method of teaching subtraction. Now, I […]

Why the hell would you teach subtraction like that?

February 17, 2018 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM by AnnMaria De Mars

Hello everyone! Happy Freebie Friday, where you get educational resources as freebies. Today’s freebie comes from Fish Lake and it’s a powerpoint and pdf on multiplying fractions. Previously we shared a video on adding and multiplying fractions as a Freebie Friday. This powerpoint and pdf is related to that video. […]

Freebie Friday: Multiplying Fractions

February 16, 2018 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games / Freebie Friday / Teacher Resources by Diana Sanchez

There is a lot that goes on behind the scenes in the making of our games. Sometimes, things get complicated! Especially when you’re pushing out games that run on all sorts of platforms – Mac, Windows, iPad, Android – and that can be purchased in all sorts of places – […]