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Monthly Archives: January 2017

Jessie — Brief background We are working on a game with the Circle of Life substance abuse program on the Fort Berthold Reservation that will be used to help people change problem situations in their lives. The general theory behind it is Motivational Interviewing. Since the application will be used by people […]

Analyzing your emotions with your iPhone (& jQuery)

January 14, 2017 in AnnMaria / Code Talk / Game Progress / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

It’s time for another Freebie Friday! Today’s freebie is from our game Forgotten Trail. It’s a video on the metric system. This video helps you learn about the metric system and compares it to other units of measurement. Watch the video below! The Metric System This freebie and many others […]

Freebie Friday – The Metric System

January 13, 2017 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from March 29, 2014 “Favorite Magazine for Teaching: More 20-day blogging challenge“ that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. So, this is day 13 of the 20 day blogging […]

Throwback Thursday – Favorite Magazine for Teaching: More 20-day blogging ...

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

Kid on computer — Every Wednesday, we’ll be providing you three resources to teach a concept that teachers and parents have found requires a little more practice. Today’s resources are on introducing fractions. One of the times I knew I married the right man is when our then very young daughter asked my husband, “Daddy, what […]

Free, fun and starting fractions: Three resources to help you ...

January 11, 2017 in 7GenGames by AnnMaria De Mars

A new year presents a great opportunity to learn new things, meet new people and travel to new places. One way to do that is to check out an edtech conference where you can do all three at once! But where to start? We’ve put together a list of some of […]

Best Ed Tech Conferences for 2017

January 10, 2017 in Uncategorized by Victoria Moll-Ramírez

hunter sprite — This is part 7 in a series on making games with impact.js game library. For a list of the first 6 parts, scroll to the bottom of this post. So far, we’ve set up our computer to have a local server and created a background layer. That’s the most […]

Making games with impact: Part 7 adding a character

January 10, 2017 in AnnMaria / Code Talk by AnnMaria De Mars

Dennis on a computer — I was doing an interview for an upcoming article about women and the challenges they face when it comes to getting funding, when the interviewer mentioned how investors, VCs and all around tech startup folks love to throw around the word “rock star.” They want to invest in “rock star” […]

We Are Rock Stars

January 9, 2017 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech by Maria Burns Ortiz

Eric and Emilia at Ben & Jerry — Four years ago this week, AnnMaria, Dennis and I were on vacation in Vermont, when AnnMaria told us she wanted to found a company creating educational video games that taught math and she wanted us to join her. Now, this wasn’t completely out of the blue. She had received a […]

A Look Back At Our Beginning As 2017 Begins

January 9, 2017 in 7GenGames by Maria Burns Ortiz

Chuck Zito and AnnMaria — People often imagine life at a start-up as being more exciting than it actually is. Many hours are spent debugging code, balancing budgets or in meetings with investors. Friday, however, was one of those days that lived up to the hype. Maria and I do a sort of weekly podcast […]

Chuck Zito, Start-ups and Hells Angels

January 8, 2017 in AnnMaria / podcast / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Happy Freebie Friday! Today’s freebie comes to you from our game Spirit Lake. It’s an educational video on Native American culture and how to earn an eagle feather. The video talks about the different things that you could do to earn an eagle feather in the 1800s, things such as […]

Freebie Friday: Earning an Eagle Feather

January 6, 2017 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from January 9, 2014 “Website to Die for : Day 3 of the 20-day blogging challenge“ that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. The question for Day 3 is […]

Throwback Thursday – Website to Die for : Day 3 ...

January 5, 2017 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez