11/18/2008

35th Regular Meeting


【Date】 15:00 - 17:00, Saturday, December 20, 2008
【Venue】Conference Room, 2nd floor, Sogo Kenkyu Faculty of Education, Kochi University

15:00 Call to Order President
15:05 Greeting by Toastmaster of the Evening: TM Nagano

15:10 【Table Topics Session】 TM Minami What impressed you most this year
15:30 【Current Topic Session】"Nursing and Nursing Care by Foreigners." TM Nagano

15:50 Intermission

16:00 【Formal Speech Session】

◆Speaker 1 Tomonaga (CC Project 2: Organize your speech)
Title: New Years card

◆Speaker 2 TM Hayashi (CC Project 6: Vocal Variety)
Title: The nature of Kochi

◆Speaker 3 TM Hiromatsu (CC Project 4: How to say it)
Title: The way to negotiate with a car dealer aabout the price.

16:30 【Evaluation Session】 General Evaluator TM Nagasaki

◆Evaluator 1 TM Kago
◆Evaluator 2 TM Nagasaki
◆Evaluator 3 TM Mimoto

◆Timer:TM Nagano
◆Grammarian: TM Mine Word of the day: "finish"
◆General Evaluator's Report

16:50 Business Session
17:00 Adjourn President

17:30 Bonenkai

11/10/2008

Current Topic for the 34th Regular Meeting



The next current topics master TM Yamada has just announced the current topic for the next meeting.

"How can we solve environmental problems?"

Remember good preparation gives you confidence and makes your speech a MUCH BETTER one! Why don't you visit web pages to find out the facts and issues in environmental problems?

Sites you might find useful
http://www.epa.gov/kids/
UNESCO
Takingitglobal

11/03/2008

34th Regular Meeting

【Date】 19:00 - 21:00, Monday, November 17, 2008
【Venue】Conference Room, 2nd floor, Sogo Kenkyu Faculty of Education, Kochi University

19:00 Call to Order President
19:05 Greeting by Toastmaster of the Evening: TM Hiromatsu
19:10 【Table Topics Session】 "Pet or Gardening?" TM Hayashi
19:30 【Current Topic Session】"How can we solve environmental problems?" TM Yamada

19:50 Intermission

20:00 【Formal Speech Session】

◆Speaker 1 TM Kago (CC Project 1:The Ice Breaker)
Title: Self-Introduction

◆Speaker 2 TM Nagano (CC Project 4: How to say it )
Title: "What Brought Me to the Toastmasters Club"

◆Speaker 3 TM Kitaoka (CC Project 4: How to say it )
Title: How to say it

20:40 【Evaluation Session】 General Evaluator TM

◆Evaluator 1 TM Tomonaga
◆Evaluator 2 TM Yamada
◆Evaluator 3 TM Hayashi

◆Timer:TM Kago
◆Grammarian: TM Nagasaki Word of the day: " smile"
◆General Evaluator's Report

20:50 Business Session
21:00 Adjourn President

10/27/2008

New Toastmaster: TM Mimoto.



Welcome to Kochi Toastmasters Club! We are very happy to introduce our new member TM Mimoto. She has just successfully finished her first speech "Ice Breaker" today at the 33rd Regular meeting. Congratulations!

New CC: TM Yamada. Congratulations!




TM Yamada has successfully finished his first ten projects and been awarded Competent Communicator. Congratulations!

33rd Regular Meeting  Mon, October 27, 2008




[Photo]Table Topic session by TM Kitaoka


【Date】 19:00 - 21:00, Monday, Octobor 27, 2008
【Venue】Conference Room, 2nd floor, Sogo Kenkyu Faculty of Education, Kochi University

19:00 Call to Order President
19:05 Greeting by Toastmaster of the Evening: TM Mine
19:10 【Table Topics Session】 "Your favorite in Autumn" TM Nagano
19:30 【Current Topic Session】"Should we change our leader in Japan?" TM Kitaoka

19:50 Intermission

20:00 【Formal Speech Session】

◆Speaker 1 TM Sasaoka (CC Project 7:Research your topic)
Title: Finding new Images of Kochi
◆Spseaker 2 TM Mine (CC Project 9: Persuade with Power)
Title: Surfing
◆Speaker 3 TM Hayashi (CC Project 5: Your body speaks)
Title: How long will superstition survive?"
◆Speaker 4 TM Hiromatsu (CC Project 3: Get to the point)
Title:Let's enjoy Halloween!
◆Speaker 5 TM Mimoto (CC Project 1: The Ice Breaker)
Title: My hobby

20:40 【Evaluation Session】 General Evaluator TM Nagasaki

◆Evaluator 1 TM Kago
◆Evaluator 2 TM Shiomi
◆Evaluator 3 TM Yamada
◆Evaluator 4 TM Nagasaki
◆Evaluator 5 TM Kitaoka

◆Timer:TM Kago
◆Grammarian: TM Minami Word of the day: "educational"
◆General Evaluator's Report

20:50 Business Session
21:00 Adjourn President

10/14/2008

Current Topic for the 33rd Regular Meeting




The next current topic master TM Kitaoka announced the topic.The current topic for the next regular meeting will be:

"Should we change our leader in Japan?"


Current topic master: TM Kitaoka

10/12/2008

TM Nagano Participated Area 43 Table Topic Speech Contest



TM Nagano participated Area 43 Table Topic Speech Contest, which was held on October 5 in Tokushima.

9/08/2008

32nd Regular Meeting

【Date】 19:00 - 21:00, Monday, September 29, 2008

【Venue】Conference Room, 2nd floor, Sogo Kenkyu Faculty of Education,
Kochi University

19:00 Call to Order President
19:05 Greeting by Toastmaster of the Evening:ATM Nagasaki
19:10 【In-House Table Topics Contest】 "Comparison" TM Nagasaki
Evaluator & Judge: ATM Taniguchi

19:40 Intermission

19:50 【Formal Speech Session】
◆Speaker 1 TM Nagano (CC Project 3:Get to the Point )
Title: I can't stop going.
◆Spseaker 2 TM Hayashi (CC Project 4: How to Say it)
Title: Maturing Society
◆Speaker 3 TM Yamada (CC Project 10: Inspire your audience)
Title:Trust makes it happen.

20:10 【Evaluation Session】 General Evaluator TM Yamada

◆Evaluator 1 TM Hiromatsu
◆Evaluator 2 TM Sasaoka
◆Evaluator 3 TM Kitaoka
◆Timer:TM Nagano
◆Grammarian: TM Yamada Word of the day: "brief"
◆General Evaluator's Report

20:30 【Let's learn from the Great Speech】
1) Stanfort University Commencement Speech by Steven Jobs, Apple CEO
2) Discussion

20:50 Business Session
21:00 Adjourn President

8/24/2008

31st Regular Meeting

【Date】 19:00 - 21:00, Monday, August 25, 2008
【Venue】Conference Room, 2nd floor, Sogo Kenkyu Faculty of Education,
Kochi University

19:00 Call to Order President

19:05 Greeting by Toastmaster of the Evening TM Sugimoto

19:10 【Table Topics Session】 TM Hiromatsu
*topic will be announced at the meeting

19:30 【Current Topic Session】TM Nagano
Topic: "Surviving the Nankai Earthquake"

19:50 Intermission

20:00 【Formal Speech Session】

◆Speaker 1 TM Mine (CC Project 8: Get Comfortable with Visual Aids )
Title:

◆Spseaker 2 TM Hayashi (CC Project 3:Get to the Point )
Title:

◆Speaker 3 TM Sasaoka (CC Project 6:Vocal Variety )
Title:

◆Speaker 4 TM Kitaoka (CC Project 3:Get to the Point )
Title:

◆Speaker 5 TM Yamada (CC Project 9:Persuade with Power)
Title:

19:45【Evaluation Session】 General Evaluator TM Nagasaki

◆Evaluator 1 TM Hiromatsu
◆Evaluator 2 TM Hikosaka
◆Evaluator 3 TM Kawashima
◆Evaluator 4 TM Yamada
◆Evaluator 5 TM Sugimoto

◆Timer TM Nagano
◆Grammarian Kitaoka Word of the day:
◆General Evaluator's Report

20:50 Business Session
21:00 Adjourn President

7/02/2008

Agenda for 30th Regular Meeting

Date: 15:00 – 17:00, Saturday, July 26, 2008

Venu: KIA (高知県国際交流協会) 研修室
〒780-0870 高知県高知市本町4-1-37
TEL.088-875-0022・FAX.088-875-4929

See the map on web: http://www.kochi-kia.or.jp/home.html (高知県庁の前です)

Agenda:

15:00 Call to Order President
15:05 Greeting by Toastmaster TM Kitaoka
15:10 【Table Topics Session】 TM Sugimoto
*topic will be annouced at the meeting
15:30 【Current Topic Seesion】TM Mine
Topic: Kochi Summit
15:50 Intermission
16:00 【Formal Speech Session】
◆Speaker 1 TM Minami,CC (AT Project3)
Title: And you too, Brutus!
◆Speaker 2 TM Hiromatsu (CC Project 2: Organize your speech)
Title:Easy Camping
◆Speaker 3 TM Nagano (CC Project 2: Organize your speech)
Title: Realistic and Practical
◆Speaker 4 TM Hayashi (CC Project 2: Organize your speech)
Title:English, input, output
◆Speaker 5 ATM Nagasaki (AT Project 1: )
Title: Understanding beyond culture.

16:45【Evaluation Session】 General Evaluator TM Nagasaki
◆Evaluator 1 TM Nagasaki
◆Evaluator 2 TM Mine
◆Evaluator 3 TM Kitaoka
◆Evaluator 4 TM Hiromatsu
◆Evaluator 5 TM Sugimoto

◆Timer TM Mine ◆Grammarian TM Nagano
◆General Evaluator's Report

16:50 Business Session
17:00 Adjourn President

17:30 30th Anniversay Party Good chilled beer!
Venu: New Hankyu Hotel Beer Garden
Time: 17:30-
Fee: 3800 yen

6/23/2008

Agenda for 29th Regular Meeting

【Date】 19:00 - 21:00, Monday, June 23, 2008
【Venue】Conference Room, 2nd floor, Sogo Kenkyu Faculty of Education, Kochi University

19:00 Call to Order President
19:05 Greeting by Toastmaster of the Evening TM Hayashi
19:10 【Table Topics Session】 TM Kawashima
*topic will be announced at the meeting
19:30 【Current Topic Session】TM Kitaoka "
Topic: "Do you think Japan is the safest country in the world?"

19:50 Intermission

20:00 【Formal Speech Session】
◆Speaker 1 TM Minami,CC (AT Project2)
Title:Aomon
◆Speaker 2 TM Kitaoka (CC Project 2: Organize your speech)
Title:Population
◆Speaker 3 TM Hikosaka (CC Project 1: Ice Breaker)
◆Speaker 4 TM Tomonaga (CC Project 1: Ice Breaker)
◆Speaker 5 TM Sugimoto (CC Project 2: Organize your speech)
Title:

19:45【Evaluation Session】 General Evaluator TM Nagasaki, ATM
◆Evaluator 1 TM Mine
◆Evaluator 2 TM Nagano
◆Evaluator 3 TM Yamada
◆Evaluator 4 TM Nagasaki, ATM
◆Evaluator 5 TM Minami

◆Timer TM Nagano ◆Grammarian None
◆General Evaluator's Report

20:50 Business Session *Officer Election
21:00 Adjourn President

5/18/2008

28th Regular Meeting


AGENDA
【Date】 19:00 – 21:00, Monday, May 26, 2008
【Venue】Conference Room, 2nd floor, Sogo Kenkyu Faculty of Education, Kochi University
19:00 Call to Order President
19:05 Greeting by Toastmaster of the Evening TM Mine
19:10 【Table Topics Session】 TM Yamada
19:20 【Special Session】 "Effective Evaluation" ATM Nagasaki
19:50 Intermission
20:00 【Formal Speech Session】
◆Speaker 1 TM Nagano (CC Project 1: Ice Breaker)
◆Speaker 2 TM Hayashi (CC Project 1: Ice Breaker)
◆Speaker 3 TM Hiromatsu (CC Project 1: Ice Breaker)
◆Speaker 4 TM Shiomi (CC Project 2: Organize your speech)
Title: Death Readiness
◆Speaker 5 TM Mine(CC Project 7: Research your topic)
Title: Econmical gap between countries


19:45【Evaluation Session】 General Evaluator TM Nagasaki, ATM
◆Evaluator 1 TM Yamada
◆Evaluator 2 TM Taniguchi, ATM
◆Evaluator 3 TM Kawashima
◆Evaluator 4 TM Minami
◆Evaluator 5 TM Kitaoka

◆Timer TM Hayashi ◆Grammarian TM Kitaoka
◆General Evaluator's Report

20:50 Business Session
21:00 Adjourn President

4/19/2008

Agenda: 27th Regular Meeting

27th Regular Meeting of the Kochi Toastmasters Club

AGENDA

【Date】 19:00 – 21:00, Monday, April 21, 2008
【Venue】Conference Room, 2nd floor, Sogo Kenkyu Faculty of Education,
Kochi University

19:00 Call to Order President
19:05 Greeting by Toastmaster of the Evening TM Minami
19:10 【Table Topics Session】 TM Yamada
19:20 【Current Topic Session】 "Do we need more road?" TM Nagasaki, CC

19:50 Intermission

20:00 【Formal Speech Session】
◆Speaker 1 TM Kitaoka (CC Project 1: Ice Breaker)
◆Speaker 2 TM Sugimoto (CC Project 1: Ice Breaker)
◆Speaker 3 TM Kawashima (CC Project 2: Organize your speech)
Title:
◆Speaker 4 TM Yamada (CC Project 9: Persuade with Power)
Title:
◆Speaker 5 TM Sasaoka (CC Project 6: Vocal Variety)
Title:

19:45【Evaluation Session】 General Evaluator TM Taniguchi, ATM
◆Evaluator 1 TM Yamada
◆Evaluator 2 TM Nagasaki
◆Evaluator 3 TM Sasaoka
◆Evaluator 4 TM Minami
◆Evaluator 5 TM Mine
◆Timer Shiomi ◆Grammarian Minami
◆General Evaluator's Report
20:50 Business Session
21:00 Adjourn President

3/23/2008

Agenda: 26th Regular Meeting

【Date】 19:00 – 21:00, Monday, March 24, 2008

【Venue】Conference Room, 2nd floor, Sogo Kenkyu Faculty of Education, Kochi University

19:00 Call to Order President
19:05 Greeting by Toastmaster of the Evening TM Yamada
19:10 【Table Topics Session】 TM Sasaoka
19:20 【Special Session】 TM Nagasaki

19:50 Intermission

20:00 【Formal Speech Session】

◆Speaker 1 TM Shiomi (CC Project 1: Ice Breaker)
◆Speaker 2 TM Kawashiam (CC Project 1: Ice Breaker)
◆Speaker 3 TM Yamada (CC Project 8: Get Comfortable with Visual Aids)
◆Speaker 4 TM Sasaoka (CC Project 5: Your Body Speaks)
◆Speaker 5 TM Nagasaki, CC (AD Project 5: Confrontation: The Adversary Relationship)

19:45【Evaluation Session】 General Evaluator TM Nagasaki, CC

◆Evaluator 1 TM Yamada
◆Evaluator 2 TM Sasaoka
◆Evaluator 3 TM Nagasaki
◆Evaluator 4 TM Minami
◆Evaluator 5 TM < >

◆General Evaluator's Report

20:50 Business Session
21:00 Adjourn President

3/08/2008

26th Regular Meeting (March 24, 2008)

DATE & TIME: March 24 (Monday), 2008 19:00-21:00
VENUE: Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, Faculty of Education, Kochi University

3/06/2008

Records: 25th Regular Meeting

【Date】 19:00 – 21:00, Monday, March 3, 2008
【Venue】Conference Room, 2nd floor, Sogo Kenkyu Faculty of Education, Kochi University
19:00 Call to Order President
19:05 Greeting by Toastmaster of the Evening TM Nagasaki
19:10 【Special Session】 Reports : Area 43 Joint Meeting TM Yamada
19:30 【Table Topics Session】 TM Yamada
19:50 Intermission
20:00 【Formal Speech Session】
◆Speaker 1 ATM Taniguchi
         Title:
◆Speaker 2 TM Sasaoka (Project 4 How to say it)
         Title:
   ◆Speaker 3 TM Yamada (Project 7 Research Your Topic)
         Title:
◆Speaker 4 TM Nagasaki, CC (Speeches by Management, Project 4 Status Report)
Title: Action Research as a tool for teacher development
19:45【Evaluation Session】   General Evaluator TM Taniguchi, ATM
◆Evaluator 1 TM Yamada
◆Evaluator 2 TM Yamada
◆Evaluator 3 TM Nagasaki
◆Evaluator 3 TM Taniguchi
◆General Evaluator's Report
20:50 Business Session
21:00 Adjourn President
【Guests】 Ms.Shiomi, Mr Hayashi, Ms. Sugimoto, Ms. Yoshimatsu

3/05/2008

Congratulations, TM Minami !



TM Minimi Sayoshi has just finished his first 10 projects in the basic manual, and recieved his Competence Communicator Award. Congratulations! We hope that you will keep your enthusiasm for long, and become a role model for other members.

2/24/2008

TM Yamada received the Best Evaluation Speaker award



TM Yamada won the Best Evaluation Speaker award at Area 43 Joint Meeting, held on Feb. 10, 2008 in Takamatsu. Congratulations!

2/18/2008

25th Regular Meeting (March 3, 2008)

DATE & TIME: March 3 (Monday), 2008 15:00-17:00
VENUE: Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, Faculty of Education, Kochi University

Records: 24th Regular Meeting

2nd Year Anniversay & New Year Special Meeting

AGENDA


【Date】 15:00 – 17:00, Saturday, January 26, 2008
【Venue】Conference Room, 2nd floor, Sogo Kenkyu Faculty of Education, Kochi University

15:00 Call to Order President
15:05 Greeting by Toastmaster of the Evening TM Minami
15:10 【Special Session】 DVD "Effective Evaluialtion" TM Nagasaki
15:30 【Table Topics Session】 TM Nagasaki
15:50 Intermission
16:00 【Formal Speech Session】
◆Speaker 1 TM Minami, CC (Project AD3 )
         Title: Chinese poem
◆Speaker 2 TM Mine (Project CC5 Your Body Works)
         Title: Social Relations
   ◆Speaker 3 TM Nagasaki, CC
        (Speeches by Management, Project 2 The Technical Speech)
         Title: Distribution of Teacher Questions in EFL Classrooms
16:45【Evaluation Session】   General Evaluator TM Taniguchi, ATM
◆Evaluator 1 TM Yamada
◆Evaluator 2 TM Nagasaki
◆Evaluator 3 TM Mine
◆Grammarian's Report TM None
◆Timer's Report TM Shibata
◆General Evaluator's Report
16:50 Business Session
17:00 Adjourn President

First Area 43 Joint Meeting

DATE & TIME: Februray 10, 2008 13:00
VENUE:Takamatsu Women's Center

2/05/2008

Join Toastmasters




How Regular Meetings go :

At every meeting, we have four sessions: the Current Topics Session, the Table Topics Session, the Formal Speech Session and the Evaluation Session.

In the Current Topics Session, one of the members acts as the chairperson and is called the Current Topicmaster. She/he first speaks for a minute or two on a topic announced in advance. The topic can be about anything timely, for example, about politics, economy, environment, education, sports, art, music, society, etc. The Current Topicmaster then calls upon each member to talk about a sub-topic closely related to the main topic for two minutes. This session lasts for twenty minutes.

The next session is the Table Topics Session, which goes just like the Current Topics Session, with the main difference being that in the Table Topics Session, the main topic and the sub-topics are not announced in advance. They are announced only at the time of this session. Another difference between the two kinds of Topics Sessions is that Table Topics mainly concern something in our daily life and are normally easier to handle than Current Topics. This session also lasts for twenty minutes.

The third session is the Formal Speech Session, in which two or three members present their prepared speeches. The main difference between the above-mentioned Topics Sessions and the Formal Speech Session is that in the former we make impromptu speeches but in the latter we make prepared speeches. All formal speeches must be based on the Toastmasters Manuals published by the Toastmasters International and given to all new members. The first manual titled Communication and Leadership Manual, contains ten projects, and each member can follow it and present their speeches at her/his own pace.

How we progress :

When a member finishes the first ten speeches based on this first manual, she/he will be awarded the title, Competent Toastmaster, CTM, from the Toastmasters International, and then will work on the Advanced Manuals. When she/he finishes ten additional speeches based on the Advanced Manuals, she/he will be awarded the title, Advanced Toastmasters Bronze, or ATM-B. Like this, she/he may proceed and be awarded still higher titles, ATM-Silver, ATM-Gold, and then the highest, Distinguished Toastmaster, or DTM.

Speech Contests :

Toastmasters International holds its annual Formal Speech Contests at all levels, i.e., club (There are 67 clubs in Japan as of January 2005), area (There are 13 areas in Japan), division (There are four divisions in Japan), district (Japan is one district: District 76), and international (There are 10000 clubs and 80 districts in the world). The first and second prize winners at each level advance to the higher level. For instance, if you win the club contest, you will obtain a ticket to compete in the area contest. If you win it, too, then you will advance to the division contest, and so forth. In addition to the Formal Speech Contest, Toastmasters International holds other types of speech contests occasionally, e.g., Table Topics Contests, Humorous Speech Contests, and Speech Evaluation Contests. You are welcome to challenge!