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Monthly Archives: May 2016

room floor covered in books and other crap — The past week, I’ve spent some time cleaning up the nooks and crannies of the house. Informing my grandchildren about the chimney sweeps in Victorian England, I had them crawl under the bed and push out everything that had collected there. The result was this. Also, Eva, would like it […]

Cleaning up code is a lot like cleaning your house

May 30, 2016 in AnnMaria / Code Talk by AnnMaria De Mars

This post is bound to be disapproved of by two-thirds of our founding team. Dennis will disapprove because he thinks ‘programmer’ is something lowlier than a ‘software developer’ and I should not call myself a programmer. Ha! (This is the type of reasoned argument we have here at 7 Generation Games.) […]

Things that make programmers go AACK!

May 29, 2016 in AnnMaria / Code Talk by AnnMaria De Mars

The Memorial Day holiday weekend has arrived which also marks the unofficial start of summer! You might be traveling this weekend or getting ready for parties and cookouts. Before you do, we want to offer up some reading material that is informative and useful. Throughout the year our 7 Generation […]

Freebie Friday: 7 Generation Games Conferences Presentations

May 27, 2016 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday tagged CABE / CUE / education / Freebie Friday / Presentations by Erick Salomon

With many “educational” video games on the market, we breakdown the good and bad elements games offer. There are LOTS of educational games on the market. The problem is there aren’t very many good ones. How do you differentiate between the time wasters and the legitimate learning tools? Some games are […]

Do’s and Don’ts of Educational Game Design

May 27, 2016 in 7GenGames / Newsletter / Uncategorized tagged Digital Learning / educational video games / newsletter by Erick Salomon

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from October 20th, 2014 “Judo as Preparation for Life at a Start-Up” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Sometimes people suggest I wasted that 10,000 hours I spent in judo classes and tournaments, since […]

Throwback Thursday: Judo as Preparation for Life at a Start-Up

May 26, 2016 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged Dr. AnnMaria De Mars / Judo / Start-Up / Throwback Thursday by Erick Salomon

We believe all schools should be using educational video games in their classrooms and we offer up three reasons why. Gaming provides significantly greater soft skill development. Watch kids play an engaging video game. They will fail time and time again, and yet they repeatedly go back into the game to […]

Three Reasons Why All Schools Should Use Games

May 24, 2016 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Newsletter tagged Educational Games / Games / Math / newsletter / students by Erick Salomon

This is an incredible skill I have mastered, I thought to myself as I sat typing away, unfazed, as my oldest child stood crying in the doorway of her bedroom making every effort to be as loud as possible to express her outrage over me sending her to her room […]

The Parent’s Resume

May 21, 2016 in Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing by Maria Burns Ortiz

There is such thing as a stupid question. We make a point to NOT ask them when interviewing job candidates at 7 Generation Games. Here’s why… I read one of those articles going around this week about a guy who interviewed at Microsoft and was hit with one of those […]

Why We Don’t Ask Ridiculous Interview Questions

May 20, 2016 in Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

Happy Friday! Congratulations on making it through another week. As a reward, Your freebie comes from our newly released video game, Forgotten Trail (which you can purchase for the introductory price of $4.99!). It’s downloadable clip art for use in your classes, home, blogs, etc. FORGOTTEN TRAIL CLIP ART As […]

Freebie Friday: Forgotten Trail Clip Art

May 20, 2016 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday tagged Clip Art / forgotten trail / Freebie Friday / Teacher Resources by Erick Salomon

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from November 29th, 2014 “7 Tips on How Not to Fail College Math Classes ” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. I have been teaching at the post-secondary level since 1987, at schools ranging from […]

Throwback Thursday: 7 Tips on How Not to Fail College ...

May 19, 2016 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged Advice / college / Dr. AnnMaria De Mars / Life / Throwback Thursday / Tips by Erick Salomon

Characters with dog traveling across a map — Confess! Do all of you people have early morning meetings, before I am awake, planning how to irritate me? We have been focused on letting as many people as possible know about our games, including our new release, Forgotten Trail. We write blogs, have a mailing list, exhibit at events, […]

Excuse me, I must be really stupid

May 19, 2016 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars