You might even want to read them before you select your path. I'll point out a few resources on various district websites to help.
The best resource I have found is the way District 4 put together a drill-down interactive page where you select a path, then level, and can read each of the project descriptions. This includes electives.
This glimpse is from choosing the Visionary Communication Path by clicking the path name.
Beneath the general project description is another selection for Level. Here, Level 4 has been selected and the Project Description for the level 4 required project is shown, Communicate Change.
Farther down, we see a selection for electives and Write a Compelling Blog was selected.
Ok, the image is too small to read. Then go to {Paths and Projects} on the website for District 4.
(inside d4tm.org/index.php/pathways.html )
(inside d4tm.org/index.php/pathways.html )
District 4 is in Northern California. They rolled out Pathways about a year before it became available to my District. I discovered this marvelous resource even before I was accepted as a Pathways Guide, trying to figure out what Pathways was all about. I've used it ever since.
Now that I have full access in Pathways, I still find this drill-down web resource to be useful. I was even thinking that Toastmasters International might do something like this once Pathways was fully distributed. Hasn't happened yet.
If you have selected a Path, you can get Project Descriptions yourself. Each one is available as a one-page PDF. It can be rather tedious to look at several. From Base Camp, use the Tutorials and Resources menu. Project Description is under the "Subject" heading. Once you pick a language you'll get an alphabetical list of Project Descriptions. Once you pick a project, you'll get a page, Training Details, that allows you to launch. Launch means to open a PDF in a new window. Like other items you pick from the Resources and Tutorials page, the item now appears in your curriculum. I digress, There are several subjects in this paragraph that can spawn another blog.
To my point here, getting a Project Description out of Base Camp can be tedious. At least one enterprising Toastmaster took the time to pull every single Project Description and merge them all into a single PDF. You can tell because every page footer says "page 1 of 1". I'm not sure if one person compiled this document and it spread around the world, but I have seen one like it on almost every District website. Here is the {Project Descriptions} set on District 6.
This would be a good document to print out and provide to your club in a 3 ring binder at your club meetings. Printing the summary document, {Paths and Core Competencies}, that lists the name of the projects within each of the Paths would help too.
Become at least a little more familiar with your projects ahead by examining the Project Descriptions in your selected Path or your prospective Path.
Now that I have full access in Pathways, I still find this drill-down web resource to be useful. I was even thinking that Toastmasters International might do something like this once Pathways was fully distributed. Hasn't happened yet.
If you have selected a Path, you can get Project Descriptions yourself. Each one is available as a one-page PDF. It can be rather tedious to look at several. From Base Camp, use the Tutorials and Resources menu. Project Description is under the "Subject" heading. Once you pick a language you'll get an alphabetical list of Project Descriptions. Once you pick a project, you'll get a page, Training Details, that allows you to launch. Launch means to open a PDF in a new window. Like other items you pick from the Resources and Tutorials page, the item now appears in your curriculum. I digress, There are several subjects in this paragraph that can spawn another blog.
To my point here, getting a Project Description out of Base Camp can be tedious. At least one enterprising Toastmaster took the time to pull every single Project Description and merge them all into a single PDF. You can tell because every page footer says "page 1 of 1". I'm not sure if one person compiled this document and it spread around the world, but I have seen one like it on almost every District website. Here is the {Project Descriptions} set on District 6.
This would be a good document to print out and provide to your club in a 3 ring binder at your club meetings. Printing the summary document, {Paths and Core Competencies}, that lists the name of the projects within each of the Paths would help too.
Become at least a little more familiar with your projects ahead by examining the Project Descriptions in your selected Path or your prospective Path.
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