Midday Rio Rancho Toastmasters

NOTICE:
UNFORTUNATELY, Midday Rio Rancho Toastmasters has been suspended as an active club, for lack of active members. Current Members may decide to join another club (and can transfer their active membership via their new club application).

We have had a good run, but with COVID and no Face-to-Face meetings interest waned.

During Toastmaster meetings, all of our speeches, table topic discussions, and evaluations are timed. At Midday Rio Rancho Toastmasters, we have a member who does an incredible job of keeping us on track. No matter what other roles he is fulfilling - even speaking! - Jim Pechie consistently gets those virtual red, yellow, and green timing cards right on the screen for our speakers.

Attend one of our meetings and see Jim in action! Every Wednesday at noon via Zoom. Let us know you’d like to attend and we’ll get you a link.

Happy 13th Anniversary to the Midday Rio Rancho Toastmasters. Thank you to all past, present, and future Midday Rio Rancho Toastmasters!

Today’s word of the day was AFICIONADO and used throughout by every member in our meeting! Robin Vogsland, a word aficionado, gave us great information around the word Integrity in his speech "Thoughts about Living with INTEGRITY". Learn or rediscover words! Listen to and give great speeches! Join us every Wednesday at 12 noon via Zoom. Comment below or send us a message and we’ll get you the link.

WHAT DOES THE GRAMMARIAN DO in a Toastmasters Meeting?
Every Meeting has about 10 roles to fill. Half of these exist to give useful feedback to the speakers (& teach us listening skills):
1) TIMER (timing speeches confirms hitting target time range),
2) VOTE COUNTER (for best Speaker+Evaluator+Table Topic),
3) EVALUATORS (report good aspects + ways to improve speech)
4) GENERAL EVALUATOR (gives review of the whole meeting).

5) GRAMMARIAN (and Ahh-Counter). Every speech in Toastmasters is evaluated by the GRAMMARIAN-of-the-day who listens carefully to each speaker and prepares a brief evaluation of their use of language. The GRAMMARIAN duties are...
a) Reports who used the Word-of-the-Day;
b) Notes particularly good use of language like: good vocabulary, pleasing and effective phrasing, and language that has impact--with specific examples;
c) Notes areas for improvement by speakers: Ahhs, Umms, incomplete words, unnecessary filler words, double starts on words, changing thoughts mid-sentence, bad grammar, etc..