Jason jasonblanchard

[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.

	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;

	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">

	"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."

	a = ['one','two','three']
	b = [1,2,3]

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

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