In October, DynEd was honored by Technology and Learning Magazine by winning two Awards of Excellence. As reported on our news page, this underscores DynEd's continuing commitment to quality and innovation. The two winning titles were First English, a beginner course for ages 10-17, and Advanced Listening, a course featuring lectures from Stanford University professors.

According to Technology & Learning Magazine (December 2004), these winners are the 'best of the best' as judged by more than 30 educator-judges. This year, more than 140 products were submitted. Each product was rated for quality and effectiveness, ease of use, creative use of technology, and suitability for use in a school environment.

For a complete listing of the awards won by DynEd, please go to our Awards & Honors site. DynEd has now won over 40 awards. We can now claim to have the most comprehensive lineup of award-winning English Language Learning courseware in the world.

This release, on MID 2.0, includes an updated Placement Test and improvements in several courses. Please update now to take advantage of these improvements. For further update information, please contact your DynEd representative or DynEd Partner training organization.

This new upgrade includes a much improved Intelligent Tutor. In addition to providing more comprehensive feedback to students and teachers, the Intelligent Tutor now provides a Student Study Score for each of DynEd's core courses. This feature is significant in that it gives a quantitative assessment of the quality of student practice. It evaluates study frequency, study time on task, and the use of important learning aids such as the use of voice record, speech recognition, and repetition. For more information, please read the Tutor document accessible through your updated Records Manager or from our new web site.

DynEd is pleased to announce the release of its new Website. This new web site has improved navigation, a cleaner look, and updated pages better reflecting our research, pedagogy and successes. Please let us know if you have suggestions to make it even better.

In October, DynEd released a supplementary course for the hotel and tourist industries: Hospitality English. This course is for people engaged in the hotel and tourist industries.

Starting with Installation Disc version 1.9c, all relevant Teacher Guides have been accessible from the "Help/Documentation" menu in the Records Manager. You no longer need to hassle with the Instructor's CD. Students cannot access the encrypted Teacher Guides.

For existing clients, the most recent Teacher Guides and other updated documentation can also be downloaded from our Website. Some of the new or updated documents include:

• Records Manger Guide
• Placement Test Guide
• How To Study DynEd

Please note that some of the Teacher Guides may not be downloaded without a password.

DynEd in the U.S.

Correlations of DynEd's English learning content to US national and several key state educational standards have been completed for the core school solution courses: Let's Go, First English, English for Success, and New Dynamic English. If you would like to access DynEd's standards correlations now, contact sales@dyned.com.

DynEd is pleased to welcome Eddie Repanich in Los Angeles, and Susan Young in Houston. Their contact information is:

• Eddie Repanich: erepanich@dyned.com
  
• Susan Young: syoung@dyned.com

DynEd opened a representative office in Hanoi, Vietnam and also signed an agreement with the Hanoi University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) as a DynEd Training Partner. A 3-day seminar and training program was conducted at HUFS. DynEd's representative in Vietnam is Duong Le: dle@dyned.com.

Ian Pearson (MBE) joined DynEd Asia in October. Ian has a wealth of experience in the field of English language teaching. Prior to joining DynEd, he was with the British Council, serving in posts in Europe and Asia. Most recently, he was Manager of the Peacekeeping English Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he first became involved with DynEd solutions. Ian now heads DynEd's regional support office in Kuala Lumpur.

Tim Fenton, President of JetStream Staffing, has been very pleased by the progress his nursing students have made since starting their program in Lviv, Ukraine. The JetStream program prepares nurses for positions in the US. To qualify, the nurses must meet minimum English language proficiency requirements, which the first batch of graduates has done with flying colors and in less time than originally anticipated. In his own words:

"Our success with the DynEd system reminds me of the feelings I had when I first experienced the power of CP/M micro-computers with the first spreadsheet programs like Super Calc. Suddenly, small companies had the power of the big corporations. Most software since then has been evolutionary. DynEd's system is just as revolutionary in the language training field as the first spreadsheets were for financial and business fields. We have only been working with your system for six months and the results are fantastic. Anyone using traditional methods for ESL training is working in the Dark Ages!!"

- Tim Fenton, President of JetStream Staffing

DynEd is a leading developer of multimedia English learning solutions. DynEd's award-winning solutions help learners worldwide to achieve English proficiency in schools, businesses, training organizations, and government agencies. DynEd content is approved by the Ministries of Education in Malaysia, France, Italy, Korea, Thailand, and Greece, and correlates to national and state learning standards in the U.S.

Corporate headquarters are located at 1350 Bayshore Hwy, Suite 850, Burlingame, CA 94010; Tel: 800.765.4375; Fax: 650.375.7017; www.dyned.com. Global offices are located in Japan, Hong Kong, China, UK, France, and USA. DynEd reaches clients around the world through an extensive, authorized channel partner network.