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.