Stupid wittiness

It's what I just spent a few minutes struggling with. Something about slipping because a nasty slip and some cable internet downtime just cost me a week of work. Nothing more fun than not being able to leave a house with no access to research materials because you've destroyed your back getting into a truck. Especially after deleting everything in a frustrated attempt to jump start the idea machine.
My seminar paper is going to focus on steps to prepare yourself to move from traditional to online teaching, which I think I stated before. I'm in the process of reviewing the literature and narrowing down the question still, but it seems a major focus is going to be on preparing for the change in communication style between teachers and students. The readings have talked about this a bit, more by discussing the results of not preparing it seems. The digital immigrants vs. digital natives angle is playing in, but I'm starting to see evidence the divide isn't as big as it's been made out to be.
Unfortunately, I'm already up against the same issue I ran into earlier, where the thing keeps wanting to branch out in different directions. I actually have a handwritten list of things (such as CMS, forum etiquette, e-mail etiquette, etc.) that I'm not allowed to spend more than a paragraph on in my paper. I just have to keep hacking off heads and torching the stumps here.

The Matrix may have you, but that paper's still due Friday

I've decided that the move from traditional classrooms to online classrooms really interests me and I've been lucky enough to have two different assignments feature readings on the topic recently. So, I'm going to take yes for an answer here. Also I'm partially deaf and I don't believe I have to explain why that enhances my interest in online education.
I'm going to start with a focus on teacher preparation for online courses. I've got a pretty good article by Lisa Meloncon on using methods drawn from cultural geography to self-assess one's preparedness for online instruction. She proposes that we break it down into cross-sections, little slices of the overall issue, and examine each cross-section individually before bringing all the information together. Her method really seems like a good bottom-up way of analyzing the issue and it doesn't miss the forest for the trees as such methods sometimes do. In other words, she does call for us to consider that the whole is greater, or at least different, from the sum of the parts and several small discomforts can add up to one huge discomfort.
The chapter I worked with on the digital dictionary was related to this topic, focusing on hybrid classrooms. It discusses the transition to an extent as well as considering the best of both worlds in order to select the best. I'm trying to be more honest in my life, so I'll admit that I can't really tell you more because there is a whole different thing that happens when I read to analyze than when I read to create vocabulary words.