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Needham, MA - September 7, 2005 – This year’s Latin teacher has hooves, shaves, and likes to horse around. Ruth L. Breindel, a Latin teacher at Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island, has brought a centaur to class. She is this week’s AbleMedia Bronze Chalice winner for her Centaur Verb Presentations published on the Classics Technology Center on the Web (CTCWeb, http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb). “It is with great pleasure that we launch our eighth year on the Web by posting an exceptional presentation from an award-winning educator who gives so much to the Classics community worldwide via CTCWeb,” said Wendy E. Owens, CTCWeb Editor-in-Chief.

Breindel’s Centaur Verb Presentations provides instructional strategies for educators to teach Latin verb tenses. To support these strategies, Breindel provides a host of technology-based teaching tools, including a short film, a PowerPoint presentation, overhead projection slides, and cut-out cards. Each is ready for immediate use in the classroom. With assistance from Breindel’s virtual teacher, the centaur, Latin educators can use these tools to teach verb tenses with pluperfect clarity. Breindel’s classroom-ready presentations are available now on CTCWeb for all teachers, whatever their level of technology access and acumen.

“It's a pleasure to have my ideas out on the Web, so everyone can see them and use them,” said Breindel. “With CTCWeb providing a forum for sharing our best practices and ideas, there's no need for each of us to reinvent the wheel every time!”

Each week AbleOne’s sponsor, AbleMedia, salutes contributors for outstanding submissions to the AbleOne Consortium (http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/consortium/), the CTCWeb Showcase (http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/showcase/), and CTCWeb Netshots™ (http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/netshots.html). Each receives the Bronze Chalice award. AbleMedia awards Silver Chalices for the outstanding submissions of the month. At the end of each year, AbleMedia awards Gold Chalices for the outstanding submissions of the year.

AbleOne serves millions of educators, students, and other users in over 100 countries and the number of users is tripling annually. AbleOne’s CTCWeb is a repository of practical tools, for classicists and other educators, to enhance the use of computer technology in Classics education. At CTCWeb, students, educators and others find the free dissemination and open exchange of practical educational materials, systems, and applications by individuals and organizations involved in the Classics community. AbleMedia sponsors CTCWeb as part its AbleOne Education Network.

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