A little bit about me - I am a 26 year-old male Chinese-american teacher/student/national guardsman. I was born the third of four children in my family and have lived in Virginia for nearly all of my life. I spend a majority of my spare time in front of my computer, either researching for investments or fantasy football, blogging, chatting on AOL instant messenger, or catching up on e-mail.
Program of study at George Mason - I am currently working on my masters in secondary education. I've been teaching high school for the last five years, but decided to take a year-long leave of absence in order to work full-time on my degree. I have been a part-time student in the same program for nearly three years now, and I plan to complete my graduation requirements by the end of the spring semester.
Educational Background - I received my B.S. in physics from Virginia Tech in 2000, with a minor in mathematics.
Web Experience - I began surfing the internet back in 1996, dialing up on my 2400 baud modem. I started learning html on my own at that point, and started blogging soon after. I've been blogging since 1997 and my personal web page has been my inspiration to learn more. I've also maintained web pages for various organizations I've been a part of, to include national guard units and school pages. I feel comfortable with basic html, and I've done a little work with javascript, CSS, and CGI/Perl. My current home page, which incorporates some javascript, CSS, and CGI/Perl, is located at hokie.us. I just used a little bit of javascript for mouseovers, CSS for style, and CGI/Perl for a message board.
Web Accessibility - To be honest, I never really considered web accessibility in the past. Occasionally, I added alt tags for images, but I always thought that it was designed more for browser/web issues than for people with disabilities. It wasn't until watching that video during the first day of class that I really started thinking more about web accessibility.
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