How KE Works

Welcome to Kayakeducation.com (KE). World Kayak believes that having the latest teaching techniques at your fingertips is key to being more effective in instructing your whitewater students. At this very moment in time, someone somewhere is discovering that next technique. In Colorado USA there’s probably someone teaching the roll in an exciting new way or in England there is someone with an excellent game for teaching the peel out from an eddy.  These ideas should be at your finger tips!  World Kayak would like to provide a means for ALL instructors to hear of that new technique and help perfect it.

A Video Overview of Kayak Education.com- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrx2JNmSrIY

2010 sees the launch of a global initiative at World Kayak to bring the whitewater instructional world a resource that enables everyone to keep current with modern instructional techniques. This initiative starts with a conversation. From that conversation, we all learn. World Kayak invites all instructors to join us in building a resource that will bring best practice to all educators and organizations.

A Quick Tour
The Kayak Education portal is set up as a very customized social network, a combination of blogspot and Facebook.  Every registered educator and/or school will have its own identity on the network and a complete profile that they can manage with all the key information and a control system for all their KE activity.

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Recent News and Info

25 Schools already set up as Welcome Centers for our Lets Go Paddling and Kayakeducation.com initiatives

James - November 1st, 2011

Mid summer has seen a good many kayak schools getting listed as Welcome Centers.  These top kayak instructional sources will be the targets of a growing public relations campaign aimed at sending new boaters to the best sources for whitewater education.  Alongside the PR campaign being ramped up, Welcome Centers will be hosting a series of demo events allowing non-paddlers an opportunity to get into a whitewater boat under the watchful eye of instructors.  Welcome Center’s will also be getting more and more involved in the new kayakeducation.com portal launched this summer.

We are please to welcome top schools like Zoar, NOC, Class V1, Still River Outfitters and many more to our growing list of Welcome Centers.  Be sure you’re involved if you’re a kayak school… please feel free to apply at http://letsgopaddling.com/welcome-centers/become-a-welcome-center-2/welcome-center-application/.

Welcome Centers now able to access a growing number of Partner Programs

James - October 17th, 2011

If you look to the right of this page you will see a menu of new opportunities available to registered Welcome Centers… from an association with the President’s Challenge program to direct lines to National and State parks and more, World Kayak continues to find ways to get you exposed to the non-paddling publics.  Welcome Centers are being touted as the best in Whitewater instruction to these partners and as our partnerships progress, more and more opportunities will be developed for cross promotion and direct activity.  Be sure to sign up as a Welcome Center… its free and easy… just go to our Lets Go Paddling portal an apply:  http://letsgopaddling.com/welcome-centers/become-a-welcome-center-2/welcome-center-application/

First wave of instructors heading to Kayakeducation.com, join us!

James - October 7th, 2011

With phase 1 of this portal, we are inviting all kayak instructors with active certification with the ACA to join us for the start of our ongoing discussion and collaboration.  The Summer and Fall of 2010 will see a growing number of kayak instructors and schools getting involved in this portal which is aimed at developing conversation in and around each step in the paddler curriculum.  Educators are invited to contribute tips, tricks etc. to an exsisting outline of the natural ww progression.  With a ‘thumbs up’ system we can then see how these tips are percieved once tested by others… bringing best practice in all steps in paddling progression clearer.

Free educator accounts are available now by applying at http://letsgopaddling.com/welcome-centers/become-a-welcome-center-2/welcome-center-application/ …

Uncategorized - WK Articles - Education Theory

Archive of Articles

Educator Contributed Articles

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  Chris Ryman wrote a new blog post: CanoeKayak Canada-Long Term Paddler Development Program   1 year, 1 month ago · View

  This past January CanoeKayak Canada Whitewater introduced the Passport to Paddle Sports, an illustrative tool for the Long Term Paddler Development Program, for kayak clubs and schools across the country. The program maps out the various levels of kayak instruction in a cartoon format that makes the progression from Fundamentals to Development to Transformations easily [...]

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  Chris Ryman wrote a new blog post: Kayak Instructors- livin’ the life!   1 year, 2 months ago · View

  Top 5 reasons to teach kayaking! Ahhhh, the life of a kayak instructor. Most who don’t know for themselves would say we have it pretty easy. Well, thats not always the case. With any job we experience highs and lows but one thing is for sure with kayak instructors — most are passionate about sharing their love [...]

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  James wrote a new blog post: 25 Schools already set up as Welcome Centers for our Lets Go Paddling and Kayakeducation.com initiatives   1 year, 6 months ago · View

  Mid summer has seen a good many kayak schools getting listed as Welcome Centers.  These top kayak instructional sources will be the targets of a growing public relations campaign aimed at sending new boaters to the best sources for whitewater education.  Alongside the PR campaign being ramped up, Welcome Centers will be hosting a series [...]

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  James wrote a new blog post: Welcome Centers now able to access a growing number of Partner Programs   1 year, 7 months ago · View

  If you look to the right of this page you will see a menu of new opportunities available to registered Welcome Centers… from an association with the President’s Challenge program to direct lines to National and State parks and more, World Kayak continues to find ways to get you exposed to the non-paddling publics.  Welcome [...]

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  James wrote a new blog post: First wave of instructors heading to Kayakeducation.com, join us!   1 year, 7 months ago · View

  With phase 1 of this portal, we are inviting all kayak instructors with active certification with the ACA to join us for the start of our ongoing discussion and collaboration.  The Summer and Fall of 2010 will see a growing number of kayak instructors and schools getting involved in this portal which is aimed at developing [...]

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  James wrote a new blog post: From the WK Brain: The 50,000 foot view of a sport   1 year, 7 months ago · View

  When stepping back over the past 3 years to look at our sport, World Kayak has slowly developed a snapshot of a successful sport. It is from that snapshot we continue to develop, introducing what we feel is missing from our paddling community. To do this, a good number of folks got involved in research; research [...]

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  James wrote a new blog post: World Kayak launches Let’s Go Paddling Initiative   3 years, 1 month ago · View

  World Kayak is spearheading the new Let’s Go Paddling initiative for the summer of 2010.  The goal is to drive non-boaters to boating and boaters to whitewater kayaking.  The program involves 40+ regions globally.  In each region WK is helping plan a full month of paddlesports activity leading to a festival.  Activities will include canoeing, kayaking, [...]

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  leehart wrote a new blog post: World Kayak launches Let’s Go Paddling Initiative   3 years, 1 month ago · View

  World Kayak is spearheading the new Let’s Go Paddling initiative for the summer of 2010.  The goal is to drive non-boaters to boating and boaters to whitewater kayaking.  The program involves 40+ regions globally.  In each region WK is helping plan a full month of paddlesports activity leading to a festival.  Activities will include canoeing, kayaking, [...]