I had a few other topics I wanted to write posts about – our mini-games, changing the language for each game, future activities planned in the game, all of the changes we have made and will be making to align with common core – but time’s up. In about 12 […]
AnnMaria De Mars
When I tell other entrepreneurs that I am half of the development team for 7 Generation Games, I’m met with a variety of reactions, few of them good. Polite disbelief: “So, you just use like Dreamweaver or WordPress to clean up some html, right?” Um, wrong. Disapproval: “As CEO, aren’t […]
Coding Your Own Stunts: Good or Bad?
The fact is, this is what teachers will be expected to teach and students will be expected to learn at specific grade levels.
Our Support for Common Core
The most exciting part about working in a start-up, and particularly at 7 Generation Games, is all of the new ideas that we are going to make happen. Right now, I’m adding Ojibwe to our newest game, Fish Lake. I designed the games so that a new language could be […]
In with the new!
This is one of my occasional posts for those of you interested in how software is made – at least at 7 Generation Games. There have been a lot of articles lately saying start-ups need to talk about their failures as well as successes. I can’t say we have had […]
Development in the Past Year
One of the questions I get asked a lot is “How do you get so much done?” I sometimes think that growing up without advantages can be an advantage. For example, when I was a kid, I never had my own room. I always shared it with my sister, or […]
The Secret to Productivity: Don’t Be Easily Bothered
This week, we attended a two-day event for winners of the USDA Small Business Innovation Research awards. In a nutshell, the SBIR awards are given in two phases. The first phase is $100,000 for eight months to develop a prototype. That’s the money USDA gives you, you can spend more […]
What Happens When You Get a Group of Innovative Companies ...
[NOTE: In keeping with the theme of “Getting to know us”, here is a post from our lead cultural consultant, Dr. Erich Longie, originally posted on the lastrealindians site.] Dakota values bring me a satisfaction with my life that I could not find anywhere else. I first met my nephew, […]
Being Dakota Starts With Living Your Values
My name is Dr. Erich Longie. I was born and raised on the Spirit Lake Nation of which I am a member. I still reside on Spirit Lake because like most Indians my age, living someplace else is not an option. The Rez is my home, it’s where my family […]
Our Cultural Consultant on Cultural Content in Spirit Lake: The ...
I swear on this stack of fish that I will never criticize software manufacturers again. I realize a stack of Bibles is the traditional swearing on stack but I did not have a picture of that, whereas as fish stack was available. Also, if as very probable, this turns out […]
I Will Never Bad-mouth Microsoft Again
If you’ve never read Sojourner Truth’s wonderful speech, “Aint I a Woman” given at the Women’s Convention in 1851, you have missed out. Here is my favorite part: That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best […]
Ain’t We a Start-up?
In designing Fish Lake, we have largely followed the Common Core State Standards and closely studied test questions from the various samples released to give schools an idea what to expect. There are times, however, when Common Core and I are at odds. For one thing, the assertion that one […]