Making a bilingual game is more than twice the work of making an English-only game. Not only do you need to have everything written in Spanish and English but you also need to create functions that make everything change from Spanish to English (and back again). To add a layer […]
AnnMaria
Going through our archives, we came across this great post from June 12, 2012 “I Have No Trouble Finding Latino Staff Members – Proof There Isn’t a Level Playing Field” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. When I send bills to clients, […]
Throwback Thursday: I Have No Trouble Finding Latino Staff Members ...
4 Going through our archives, we came across this great post from October 10, 2012 “Six Start-Up Lessons from Martial Arts” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Twenty-eight years ago, I won the world judo championships. Unlike almost everyone else who accomplishes that […]
Throwback Thursday: Six Start-Up Lessons from Martial Arts
In an interesting juxtaposition of events, I was teaching judo yesterday and then came home to finish up our final report on the Dakota Learning Project, which is the official name of the two-year grant we received from the USDA to create math games. Laying out the design of our […]
Why I teach math like I teach judo
Whether we’re talking about a certified in the largest school district in the country or a parent helping a child with homework, the best case scenario is individual attention from a competent, caring adult. So, what if that competent, caring adult has the flu and you have a substitute who […]
Education Still Happens When the Teacher Isn’t There
1 Going through our archives, we came across this great post from December 22, 2012 “Parenting: Nobody Really Knows What They’re Doing” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. These days, I cannot turn around without seeing a billboard, poster or article with my […]
Throwback Thursday: Parenting – Nobody Really Knows What They’re Doing
Going through our archives (but not too far back), we came across this great post from October 30, 2013, “The Education Bubble” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Now that The Spoiled One is in her sophomore year of high school, we […]
Throwback Thursday: The Education Bubble
You really ARE important to us. This was driven home twice this week. I was talking to an investor in educational technology companies and he said, “Those early adopters are so valuable. They really are partners in development. The original developers are so close to the project that either they […]
Hello Fellow Travelers!
Having raised four teenagers and taught hundreds of others, I’m very familiar with their brand of honesty. You might think that I would not be thrilled to get a game review from one, but … It was 7 pm, a couple of hours before I normally knock off working, and […]
Drake Defeats Apathy
1. Don’t be a sole founder. When I was a sole founder, at the very beginning of establishing 7 Generation Games, I thought this was unreasonable prejudice on the part of investors. Now I see that they are 100% right. I cannot imagine how we could possibly make games and […]
5 Things I Learned from a Start-up Accelerator
Going through our archives , we came across this great post from February 25, 2015, “Five Ways School Teaches You to Run a Start-up” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. “That’s academic.” is a term of dismissal. It means that the argument you just […]
Throwback Thursday: Five Ways School Teaches You to Run a ...
1 If you read this blog regularly, you’ll know that we are part of the Boom Startup Ed Tech Accelerator . We have successfully closed our first round of funding, but we have gained more than money from the experience. Don’t get me wrong, though, we do like money. Speaking of […]