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MEDFORD, MA - January 26, 2000 - Roger Dunkle is the winner of AbleMedia's first annual Gold Chalice award for the publication of The Classical Origins of Western Culture on the Classical Technology Center on the Web (CTCWeb, http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb). "We are delighted to laud this extraordinary educator for his contribution of this landmark work to CTCWeb," said Wendy E. Owens, CTCWeb Editor-in-Chief. "Prof. Dunkle's study guide sets the new standard by which all other educational offerings on the Web will be measured."

Dunkle's engaging and authoritative study guide, The Classical Origins of Western Culture, is the foundation for the first Netshot, which is the first Masters Course on CTCWeb. Dunkle's historic work is a Netshot because it is comprehensive and entirely online. "AbleMedia has made the study guide even more useful with the addition of links to CTCWeb resources and the CTCWeb Global Glossary that sends readers to relevant images and text," Dunkle said. Original texts, a complete study guide, a full glossary, an entire encyclopedia, and more are all linked and accessed from key words and phrases in Dunkle's guide.

Since the publication of the Netshot on CTCWeb, an article on Dunkle's work has appeared Technology & Learning magazine and a review of the Netshot is scheduled to appear in the March/April 2000 issue of Imagine magazine, published by the John Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth. "AbleMedia's Internet publication of my study guide along with other teachers' excellent curricular materials has done a wonderful job of promoting interest in the Classics," Dunkle said.

Pioneering Online Work

Dunkle has been teaching the Classical Origins of Western Culture course at Brooklyn College for the past 14 years. The Netshot passes on Dunkle's years of teaching experience and pioneering online work. "If thoughtful questions and comments from surfers are any indication," Dunkle said, "the study guide is achieving its purpose of aiding interested parties in reading ancient literature critically. The study guide, which was originally aimed at Brooklyn College students, is now performing this function for worldwide audience." Dunkle is the Chairman of the Classics Department at Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, New York.

"Like Prof. Dunkle, CTCWeb recognizes the importance of teachers teaching teachers through shared experience and pedagogy," said Owens. "We publish the best practices of educators so that educators have access to models for technology integration. This is what CTCWeb is all about."

You can review Dunkle's Gold Chalice winning Netshot on CTCWeb at http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/netshots.html.

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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