Throwing the Ball Game Improves Students’ Speaking Skills

The aims of the study is is to improve the students’ speaking skills through communicative. And the subject for this research is coming from Courses Student. The communicative games implemented was a Throw the Ball game. The type of the data is qualitative data which the researcher get through interviews and test. The findings showed good improvement to students’ speaking skills. Most students enjoy the game while laughing, some students are a little confused when suddenly asked questions and cause their answers to go round and round, students are forced to get out of the situation and they succeed. Moreover, students hold highly positive attitudes about the role of games in improving their speaking skills.

PENGEMBANGAN ALAT LATIHAN KETEPATAN SASARAN FOREHAND DRIVE PADACABANG OLAHRAGA TENIS LAPANGAN TAHUN 2021

Tennis court is a small ball game. Playing tennis court is a sport that is almost the same as playing table tennis and badminton, having the same goal of hitting the ball over the net so that it reaches the opponent's area. The game of tennis court is played by one or a pair of players facing across the net. This research is aimed at developing forehand drive training aids in tennis athletes. Forehand drive training aids in tennis court are first validated by 6 experts, 2 material expert in sports, 2 expert in the field of equipment / media, 2 expert field coach. The results of the small group trial involved 3 experts, 1 material expert with an assessment result of 85%, 1 trainer expert 84% and 1 media expert 85% it can be concluded that they meet the criteria to be continued in large group trials. It can be concluded that the results of large group trials meet the criteria to be used in assisting forehand drive exercises in tennis court

Music and Baseball Talks at Cooperstown

This chapter summarizes seven public music theory presentations at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Topics include Charles Ives’s sketches and completed music about baseball and ballplayers, the popular song “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” a seminar on historical and contemporary baseball music, Casey at the Bat for band and narrator, major league walk-up and entrance music, and branding ball clubs through music. The chapter describes ways to draw musical meaning from music analysis as a fulfilling way for music theorists to connect their work with public audiences through engagement with music from specific social and cultural contexts. These approaches involve both concert music and contemporary popular music and include music that illustrates or celebrates baseball situations as well as music heard at ballparks.

Training a spiking neuronal network model of visual-motor cortex to play a virtual racket-ball game using reinforcement learning

Recent models of spiking neuronal networks have been trained to perform behaviors in static environments using a variety of learning rules, with varying degrees of biological realism. Most of these models have not been tested in dynamic visual environments where models must make predictions on future states and adjust their behavior accordingly. The models using these learning rules are often treated as black boxes, with little analysis on circuit architectures and learning mechanisms supporting optimal performance. Here we developed visual/motor spiking neuronal network models and trained them to play a virtual racket-ball game using several reinforcement learning algorithms inspired by the dopaminergic reward system. We systematically investigated how different architectures and circuit-motifs (feed-forward, recurrent, feedback) contributed to learning and performance. We also developed a new biologically-inspired learning rule that significantly enhanced performance, while reducing training time. Our models included visual areas encoding game inputs and relaying the information to motor areas, which used this information to learn to move the racket to hit the ball. Neurons in the early visual area relayed information encoding object location and motion direction across the network. Neuronal association areas encoded spatial relationships between objects in the visual scene. Motor populations received inputs from visual and association areas representing the dorsal pathway. Two populations of motor neurons generated commands to move the racket up or down. Model-generated actions updated the environment and triggered reward or punishment signals that adjusted synaptic weights so that the models could learn which actions led to reward. Here we demonstrate that our biologically-plausible learning rules were effective in training spiking neuronal network models to solve problems in dynamic environments. We used our models to dissect the circuit architectures and learning rules most effective for learning. Our models offer novel predictions on the biological mechanisms supporting learning behaviors.

Development of Modification of Big Ball Game with Play Approach in Order to Develop Basic Movement Skills in Elementary School Students

This study aims to modify the basic motion-based big ball game with a play approach in order to develop basic movement skills and be developed as a guide for sports teachers and learning with game concepts. The resulting product is a CD and a good ball game manual with a playing approach. The research was developed by adapting the Gall, Gall, & Borg educational research and development model. The development procedure used includes several stages: 1) analyzing the content of the developed product, 2) developing the initial game product, 3) expert validation, 4) field testing, 5) product revision of the data analysis techniques used in this study in two ways, namely quantitative and qualitative.

I Don’t Care if I Never Get Back: Optimism and Ascent in “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”

The chorus of “Take Me Out To The Ball Game” (Von Tilzer and Norworth, 1908) is familiar to anyone who has attended baseball games in North America. However, relatively few people are aware that there is an introductory verse that poetically and contrapuntally motivates and anticipates the well-known chorus. This video article demonstrates some relationships between the verse and chorus and also challenges an earlier analysis that views this song through the lens of common-practice melodic norms.