AnnMaria

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

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

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

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

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

11 Oct, 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)

9 Oct, 2017 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / 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 that, “People HAVE to work in groups in […]

How do you handle introverts in the classroom?

8 Oct, 2017 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

Making Camp bilingual — I’ll give it to you in one sentence. History class was boring. With two exceptions, (thank you, Mr. MacPhail and Dr. Perkoff), from kindergarten through graduate school, all of my history courses were nothing but names and dates. This guy was king on this day and this war ended on […]

The Reason I Hated History Class (& what I did ...

4 Oct, 2017 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

View of lake from top of a hill — Ten days, nine cities, three states If you’re one of the 2,000+ email messages in my inbox, sorry I haven’t gotten back to you. If you’re one of the 18 voicemail messages I got yesterday asking, “Where have you been?” Well … It’s been a busy 10 days. Los Angeles […]

Entrepreneurship – not for faint of heart: 10 days, 9 ...

30 Sep, 2017 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from October 23, 2016 “You may not know this: Cities” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Gather around the fire, young and old. By my observations in social […]

Throwback Thursday – You may not know this: Cities

28 Sep, 2017 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from October 30, 2016 “This Witch Hunt Looks Familiar” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. All of my life, I have been a woman in a “man’s field”. […]

Throwback Thursday: This Witch Hunt Looks Familiar

21 Sep, 2017 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday / Women in Tech tagged AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday / Women in Tech by Diana Sanchez

When people at cocktail parties ask what I do for a living I often tell them I teach statistics to adults who don’t want to learn statistics and make math games for kids who don’t want to learn math. (Yes, I get invited to cocktail parties. I have friends!) Generally, the […]

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