Jason jasonblanchard

## gist:4445359
Benson, A. D., & Whitworth, A. (2007). Technology at the planning table: Activity theory, negotiation and course management systems. Journal of Organisation Transformation & Social Change, 4(1), 75–92. doi:10.1386/jots.4.1.75_1

## gist:4656504
"These forms of scholarly corroboration are not yet well understood by mainstream
faculty and academic decision makers, creating a gap between what is possible and what is acceptable."

## gist:5040071
function placeCircles(inner-circle-x, inner-circle-y, number-of-outter-outter-circles) {
  /* Some math-ey stuff */

  /* The math-ey stuff returns an array of arrays with x, y coordinates for each outer circle */
}

placeCircles(50, 50, 5) // Returns [ [50, 10], [75, 35], [75, 75], [35, 75], [35, 35] ] (or something)

## gist:5042090
x = 180; // x coordinate of inner circle
y = 30; // y coordinate of inner circle
r = 30; // distance from the center circle
n = 5; // number of outter circles

for (i = 1; i <= n; i++) {

  x1 = r * Math.cos((i * 2 * Math.PI)/n) + x;
  y1 = r * Math.sin((i * 2 * Math.PI)/n) + y;


## show page step definition
Then(/^show page$/) do
    puts page.body
end

## gist:5601099
a = ['one','two','three']
b = [1,2,3]

Hash[a.zip(b)] # => {"one"=>1, "two"=>2, "three"=>3}

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                Geeks and Non-Geeks: From Contraxioms to Collaboration in Higher Education [comment]
              
          
    [Comment on this article http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/geeks-and-non-geeks-contraxioms-collaboration-higher-education]
This article is great! "Contraxiom" - I love this concept.
I would add another complicated, perhaps even paradoxical incompatibility in the worldview of "geeks" and "non-geeks:"
As a tech expert, I view technology as fundamentally flexible and malleable around my needs and desires. With this mindset, I often think about my end goals and fit (or design) technology into those goals. This is likely because I naturally have a wider vocabulary about what's out there and how everything works.
On the other hand, the non-technical colleagues I work with who may be less comfortable with technology and who have a narrower perspective of this stuff, view technology as a rigid, opinionated monster. They see technology as something they need to fit into, changing their ways of being and teaching to fit new processes and form factors.

  
## gist:6067429
class Animal
  def initialize
    @sound = "Crickets, crickets..."
  end

  def make_noise
    puts @sound
  end
end

## gist:6151798
//= require jquery
//= require jquery.ui.effect.all
//= require jquery_ujs
//= require foundation
//= require turbolinks
//= require_tree .

$(document).foundation();

$(document).on('click.ideaEvents', 'a.new-idea', function() {

## LTI grade POST response
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"><!--webapis/ui/web/500.jsp-->


<html  lang="en-US-k12">
 <head>
  <title>Blackboard Learn</title>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE8" />
  <meta id="request-method" name="request-method" content="POST">
  <meta name="author" content="Blackboard">
	"These forms of scholarly corroboration are not yet well understood by mainstream
	faculty and academic decision makers, creating a gap between what is possible and what is acceptable."
	function placeCircles(inner-circle-x, inner-circle-y, number-of-outter-outter-circles) {
	/* Some math-ey stuff */

	/* The math-ey stuff returns an array of arrays with x, y coordinates for each outer circle */
	}

	placeCircles(50, 50, 5) // Returns [ [50, 10], [75, 35], [75, 75], [35, 75], [35, 35] ] (or something)
	x = 180; // x coordinate of inner circle
	y = 30; // y coordinate of inner circle
	r = 30; // distance from the center circle
	n = 5; // number of outter circles

	for (i = 1; i <= n; i++) {

	x1 = r * Math.cos((i * 2 * Math.PI)/n) + x;
	y1 = r * Math.sin((i * 2 * Math.PI)/n) + y;
	a = ['one','two','three']
	b = [1,2,3]

	Hash[a.zip(b)] # => {"one"=>1, "two"=>2, "three"=>3}
	class Animal
	def initialize
	@sound = "Crickets, crickets..."
	end

	def make_noise
	puts @sound
	end
	end
	//= require jquery
	//= require jquery.ui.effect.all
	//= require jquery_ujs
	//= require foundation
	//= require turbolinks
	//= require_tree .

	$(document).foundation();

	$(document).on('click.ideaEvents', 'a.new-idea', function() {
	<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"><!--webapis/ui/web/500.jsp-->


	<html lang="en-US-k12">
	<head>
	<title>Blackboard Learn</title>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
	<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE8" />
	<meta id="request-method" name="request-method" content="POST">
	<meta name="author" content="Blackboard">