A New Look and Feel for The Student Website

Coming soon! We are developing a new and improved look for the Student Website. The changes we’re making to the website are based on student feedback and are intended to provide better service to our students. The new site will be easier to navigate between pages, find information, and use the features offered.

To assist students in navigating and using the new site, we are creating mini virtual tours that will guide students through each page. Students will learn the location of each feature, be able to recognize each feature’s purpose, and learn how to use each feature quickly and effortlessly.
Penn Foster Student
Heads to Korea
to Compete in the
World Speed Skating
Championships

Sara Sayasane, a pro in-line speed skater who lives in San Jose and trains in Milpitas, California, will travel to Korea in September to compete in the 2006 International Roller Sports Federation World Speed Skating Championships.

After competing in both short and long distance races at the 2006 National Banked Track and Road Championships in Colorado Springs in May, Sara Sayasane accumulated enough points to qualify for the U.S. World Team.

“It’s an honor to represent the country in speed skating,” Sayasane said.

As a student of Penn Foster’s Dental Assistant Program, Sara’s online classes allow her to study and do coursework even when she travels for competitions.

Being one of four women to be selected to represent the country as World Class, Sara, 20, has made the World Team for the fourth consecutive year. She is going as a sprinter, which is her specialty, to the championships that consist of track and road races. A member of the Milpitas Speed Team for the last 16 years, she trains with the team three days a week at Cal Skate, where she works full-time as an office manager.

Best of luck, Sara!

Source: “Speed Skater In-Line to Represent USA,” by Kelli Downey, which appeared in the Milpitas Post, July 13, 2006 edition.
Tell Us Your Story

There is no one better qualified to understand and encourage students than someone who has personally experienced and met the challenges of distance learning. Many students need inspiration, motivation, and support just to enroll, as well as to continue with and complete their studies. E-mail your story to [email protected] or mail your story to Jim Healey, Penn Foster, 925 Oak Street, Scranton, PA 18515.
Penn Foster News Archives

July 2006

  • A reason to learn. If you want a better lifestyle, a higher paying job, to advance in your career, or to set a better example for others, odds are you’ll not only complete your courses but get a good education as well.
  • Self-motivation. Completing a program, whether for a degree, a diploma, or self-enrichment, demonstrates commitment and discipline. It’s up to you to get to work, stay with it, and finish what you started.
  • The ability to work alone. You’ll never
    be completely alone with distance/online learning. Networking with other people through the Internet only means not seeing people face-to face.
  • A successful method of learning. If you find it difficult to comprehend information when you read but learn better through visual or audible techniques, online interactive learning may be a better choice.
  • Communication skills. All learning requires the use of written words to ask and answer questions to some degree. You must be able to communicate your ideas effectively.

Source: “Is Online Education Right For You?”
by Online-Education.net at
www.online-education.net/resources/is-online-education-right-for-you.html

You’ve made the decision to go back to school to further your education and learn new skills. Your life is dramatically changing. It’s a very exciting time in your life. You know you’ve made the right decision, but now you’re becoming anxious and irritable, at times even depressed. Your life is getting even more stressful! What do you do now?
Read more.

Leo Beranek, born May 15, 1914, in Solon, Iowa,
is an acoustics expert, former MIT professor and founder and former president of Bolt, Beranek, and Newman (now BBN Technologies, a division of Verizon). He is famous for his work in acoustics as well as in speech communications.

While in grammar school, Beranek strung an antenna between his house and a tree to help bring in stations on a one-tube Crosley receiver. In high school he took a course in radio through the International Correspondence Schools (ICS), today known as Penn Foster Career School, built a crystal set, and repaired radios for neighbors.

Source: “Reality and the Virtual Engineer,” by Donald Christiansen in IEEE-USA Today’s Engineer Online at www.todaysengineer.org/2002/Apr/te3.asp.

www.microsoft.com/athome/moredone/optimize.mspx
Chris Tull, Web designer and technology writer, offers tips on how to optimize your computer for peak performance. Tasks use utilities provided within Windows operating systems to help in achieving the best system performance.

www.worldwidelearn.com/education-articles/how-learning-protects-the-brain.html
Formal learning during young adulthood protects the brain's memory functions as people age, according to a study by researchers at the University of Toronto.

www.worldwidelearn.com/education-articles/brain-foods.htm
According to Kirk Bangstad, there are certain foods you can eat and nutritional habits you can develop that may help your brain work better.

A Virtual Library directly related to our curriculum is available for our students through our student website.
Go to www.edstudentservices.com/hldlogin.jhtml, and login and click on Student Library to access the site.

If you have a Web resource you’d like to
share, e-mail me at [email protected].