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Kayaking Creates Life Lessons At French Regional Park

Do you know the W's of kayaking?

If you want to learn them, Recreation Specialist Ann Schinas of Eden Prairie with  Three Rivers Park District  can help you out.

At a women's beginner kayaking class at  Clifton E. French Regional Park in Plymouth the weather was perfect and the weather is one of the most important W's of kayaking.

"Pay attention to the horizon, to the sky when you're going out on the water," Schinas said. "You don't want to be out there, in your kayak when it starts raining or the wind picks up."

Schinas has kayaked most of her life unlike the small group of women gathered around her on the beach of Medicine Lake Aug. 11. She tells them other important W's of kayaking include knowing where you are and knowing the water where you are.

"It's always important to know where you are and where you want to go as well as what type of location you will be in and if there are other people around with motorized boats or not," Schinas said. "If there is a current like in a river know if it's strong and how deep of water you will be and if there are hazards of any kind."

Also remember to dress for the temperature of the water, she said.

Besides the learning the W's of kayaking, participants were able to find out more about themselves mainly from why they wanted to attend the class in the first place.

"I want to be able to be independent on the water and feel more comfortable on my own on the water," said Nora Collins of Anoka.

Sisters Ann and Christine Otto, of Minnetonka and Elk River, had kayaked before, but both struggled in different ways with it.

“I couldn’t go straight when I paddled,” Ann Otto said.  Otto helped the class by demonstrating in the water what you do if you tip over. “I’m not afraid of tipping over anymore,” she said.

Her sister Christine had trouble getting in and out of her kayak without falling into the water, but from the class learned how to get in properly by leaning on the land side of the kayak and using the paddle laid across the kayak to keep balanced.

Park volunteer Mary Chase of Eagan remembers starting out and learning the basics, but she soon caught on enough to help instruct beginners.

“When I started out I needed a lot of help too,” Chase said. “Much of it you just learn by being on the water and doing it.

The Use Of Autoresponders For Email Courses - mimialbert.com

Offering free things to your website visitors is one marketing method that often results in a lot of sales. People also love learning new and exciting things, and free courses thru email have risen in popularity in the world of online business. So if this happens to be your business, autoresponders can be a great deal of invaluable help.

When working with autoresponders, it’s easy to set them up to deliver lessons for your email course. It’s your call when you want these lessons distributed – they can be at any interval you wish. You can also send them any time, and determine how often lessons get emailed to customers. That said, email courses are not your ordinary form of post-high school education – and that includes Internet courses or actual degrees.

There is no face-to-face interaction between teacher and student. What the instructor would do would be to create the information to be sent, place it in the autoresponder series, configure when the lessons are to be sent, then bam – the autoresponder does the rest of the work. As the instructor, it is your choice whether you want lessons emailed everyday, every other day, every week, or anytime your students find most conducive.

Email courses are commonly used to sell products and services. For instance, if you sell widgets, you might develop a course that teaches people how to use widgets or how to care for their widget. But as far as real products go, many marketing analysts believe that with the right think tank you can write an email course for just about any product.

The first things you have to determine would be the topic and the length of your course. For example, you would need seven lessons for a two-week course with lessons emailed every other day. Use your autoresponder to store all the lessons you have written. In this example, the intervals to set would be 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 13.

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The second to the last stage would be to advertise the email address for activating the autoresponder. Make sure that you run a test first, sending each lesson to yourself. This allows you the chance to see your lessons in the same way your students see them!

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