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Yearly Archives: 2016

I’m up in San Francisco for three days where I presented on educational games at the annual California Association of Bilingual Education conference – and left all three of my kids at home. It’s a change as I was really fortunate to be able to travel with my baby for […]

All By Myself: Reflections from the Road

March 25, 2016 in Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing / Women in Tech by Maria Burns Ortiz

The California Association of Bilingual Education’s annual conference is the “must attend” event for anyone working in bilingual education in the state. Our CEO Maria Burns Ortiz and one of our teacher consultants Jovi Buendia are at CABE in San Francisco to present on educational games and ELL. If you’re […]

7 Generation Games at CABE 2016

March 24, 2016 in 7GenGames / Events by Maria Burns Ortiz

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from July 02, 2014 “Self-Employment and People with Disabilities” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. I’m looking forward to speaking at the Turtle Mountain Disabilities Conference and not just because they have one of the best […]

Throwback Thursday: Self-Employment and People with Disabilities

March 24, 2016 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged Disability / Dr. AnnMaria De Mars / Self Employment / Throwback Thursday by Erick Salomon

Eva, Maria and me — If you have not read Sojourner Truth’s inspiring speech, Aint I a Woman , you are missing out. You can click on this link right now to read it, and don’t skip scrolling down to hear Alice Walker read the speech. You’ll be glad you did. Now, sitting here in […]

Not Sure About Women in Tech Events

March 22, 2016 in AnnMaria / Women in Tech by AnnMaria De Mars

The annual school book fair was last week. After the opening day, my nearly-8-year-old informed me that she had scoped out the merchandise and had a sizable wish list. We are very pro-books in our house, so we gave her $20, which she said would be “a good start.” I […]

Taxes and Chocolate Calculators

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

The annual convergence of the video game industry known as GDC ends today, so I thought it was worth sharing what I took away from attending the event when I dropped in for the Expo. I went to GDC expecting to see a lot of cool games and ideas, which […]

GDC 2016: A Few Final Observations

March 18, 2016 in Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

To anyone questioning whether “this VR thing” is going to get bigger/stick around, all signs at the Game Developers Conference 2016 point to yes. Actually, given what I saw at GDC, it’s more of a YES! If the looming Oculus installation when you walked into the expo didn’t hammer that […]

GDC 2016: The Reality About Virtual Reality

March 17, 2016 in Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

Kids are different. They’re just born different. That was the gist of a NY Times post the other day titled, “Some Babies Are Just Easier Than Others.” It couldn’t be more true.* Of course, I didn’t need a blog post or any articles/books/studies to clue me in on that fact. […]

They’re Definitely Different

March 17, 2016 in Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing by Maria Burns Ortiz

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CUE in Palm Springs – Meet us, tweet us

March 17, 2016 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from May 04, 2014 “How Do You Keep From Burning Out Start-Up Advice” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Someone sent me a message recently, “Hey annmaria I just went into business for myself […]

Throwback Thursday: How Do You Keep From Burning Out Start-Up ...

March 17, 2016 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged Advice / AnnMaria De Mars / Dr. AnnMaria De Mars / Start-Up / Stress / Throwback Thursday by Erick Salomon

Jenn and Julia, two children I produced by having sex — No, this isn’t that kind of post. I do want to talk about virtual reality, though. I was reading on twitter comments from people who said, “There are only two kinds of people: those who think virtual reality will change the world and those who haven’t tried it yet.” […]

Virtual Reality and Sex

March 17, 2016 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

We have put FISH LAKE on STEAM Greenlight. STEAM is the digital distribution platform, that gives users access to over 3,500 games from big titles to indie games. Now we need your help! The way STEAM Greenlight works is that once a game is submitted to be released on […]

Spread The Word: Fish Lake Comes to STEAM

March 16, 2016 in 7GenGames / Educational Games tagged Fish Lake / STEAM / Video Games by Erick Salomon