Sickenglish.com Beta Launches in China

Talk sick, act funny, be cool.

ACT360 launched our sickenglish.com beta in China today and we are getting an enthusiastic response. The site will create a community of young Chinese interested in American culture, Hollywood movies, and American slang. After doing so many TOEFL, TOEIC, and business English products, we felt it was time to do something funny and entertaining.

We will begin hiring our first group of Sick instructors, and we hope that we can find some funny hipsters to join our crew. Check our our first candidate below. He's a voice coach that has worked with some way cool people in the movie industry like Jackie Chan, Li Bing Bing, and Crystal Liu (check them out in Forbidden Kingdom). Let us know what you think.

Would you hire this guy?

十月份，我们要寻找幽默有趣的人作为教师加入我们的团队。

您可以在sickenglish.com 网站主页看到工作描述和如何申请这工作的说明。如果您对这工作感兴趣，我们欢迎您申请。

我们第一位的申请者的名字叫Coach K （教练K）。他是一个语音教练，教如何发音并减少口音。他已经培训了许多像成龙，刘亦菲和李冰冰那样的电影明星。我们邀请您观看他的Sickenglish interview 视频，投票决定是否应雇佣他，并发表你的见解。

TestDEN China is Up

ACT360's Beijing office is up and running with a brand new site at http://china.testden.com to support our China customers. Lots of projects on the go, including planning for Sickenglish.com.

China contact info:
联系人：周群
地址：北京市朝阳区十里堡甲3号院都会华庭香港阁11F
邮编：100025
电话：010-65578582
手机：13701150568
qun.zhou@act360.com

Our First Winner in China

Sue and Jim 2007

Our popular ACTDEN.COM Powerpoint in the Classroom tutorial has been updated for Powerpoint 2007. We now have three versions of the tutorial available online for free use in K-12 classrooms:

• Powerpoint 98 for schools still using old software
• Powerpoint 2003 for everyone else
• Powerpoint 2007 for those school districts that have upgraded to Mister Softie's latest version.

Enjoy!

TestDEN Mini Launches on QQ.COM

Tencent, ACT360's newest partner in China, just released our TestDEN Mini testing service. It's a neat application for high school students to take a short 30 minute assessment based on either the TOEFL or TOEIC standard, and determine their English level.

The problem is that it's expensive and time consuming for high school juniors to actually sit through a real TOEFL test. TestDEN Mini offers them a quick and convenient way to find out their level and then begin to make post-secondary plans. Maybe it's a private tutor or an after-school language course to help boost their speaking skills. The main point is to help them prepare.

Based in Shenzhen, Tencent operates China's largest Internet service portal with 741m registered instant message users and 300m active accounts. We hope that Chinese students on QQ.COM will benefit from TestDEN Mini!

Mobile TOEIC Training Launches in Taiwan

After a huge learning curve and development effort, we finally launched our TestDEN TOEIC business english training product for 3G mobile phones. What does that mean? Well, if you live in Taiwan and need to take the TOEIC, you can now practice on the fly over your mobile phone! Each audio file contains English and Chinese subtitles, so we fully support local learners.

The service costs NTD 90 per month, and it's available exclusively through our partners Taiwan Mobile. If you can understand Mandarin, below is a link to the launch press conference in Taipei.

Mobile learning is a whole new world, and ACT360 will be releasing additional m-learning services shortly in 2008.

Looking for Trainers and Teachers to Test Drive ACTDEN OnDemand

Our new site design is also moving along nicely, along with our plans for our new e-learning service. We are calling it ACTDEN OnDemand, and the service is designed for trainers, teachers, and consultants who want a simple, easy to use system to create and manage online courses.

The service is designed for you to get your online classroom up and running as quickly as possible with a minimum of fuss:

1. Copy Powerpoint content into ACTDEN CMS
2. Add optional audio sound track for each slide
3. Insert online quizzes and fixed tests
4. Create online class and enroll learners
5. Monitor usage and view performance reports online

The first version isn't going to be that fancy, but we would like to invite a small group of trainers and consultants to test drive ACTDEN OnDemand. There is no charge to participate.

Click here to tell us more about you, and let us know:

- Your name
- Your school or business name
- Subjects that you teach
- City and country you are located

Unfortunately, we won't be able to accommodate everyone but we will do our best!

Sue and Jim Get an Update (Finally!)

After sitting on the backburner for months as we finished up other projects, the Powerpoint tutorial is finally getting updated. Our editors are revising the content for Powerpoint 2003 and we will upload to the www.actden.com site in early January 2007.


Thanks to all of our loyal teachers and trainers who have continued to support our site. As soon as we get our hands on a copy, Powerpoint 2007 will be coming as well.