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PRO PLANS 2 hour Lesson Plan for High School Team or Adult Team Drill By Jason Hazley Elite Professional 2-hour Lesson Plan for High School Team or Adult Team Drill 6 players per court on multiple courts Focus: Doubles; Lob offense & defense 1. Fed ball warmup 3 volleys across. 5 minutes each way. 10 minutes 2. Fed Ball Groundstrokes- briefly explain areas of focus before starting each drill Fed Ball Drill #1 Lob offense (10 minutes) 2 lines from doubles baseline position (start players close to the doubles alley) Ball 1 Groundstroke approach shot lob downthe-line
Ball 2 Aggressive volley cross court (this volley is directed toward the location of the would be opposing net person) & switch lines Fed Ball Drill #2 Lob defense (10 minutes) 2 lines from SINGLES baseline position (start players near the center mark) 1 ball high and deep to the corner in doubles alley (to keep the players safe, give players enough time to clear out of the way after hitting before feeding the next ball) Return shot high and deep down-the-line to avoid the net person Stay in the same line. Players switch lines after 5 minutes.
3. Live Ball Point Play- one up one back versus one up one back. Rotate the 3 players on each side circularly after 2 points. Pro may feed to the net person, a deep ball crosscourt, or a lob over the net person’s head causing a switch. Encourage baseline players to come to the net off of a well-placed lob down-the-line 40 minutes. Perform drill to both the deuce and ad sides and keep score. 4. Play 10 point tiebreakers with an extra serve (3rd serve) to start the point as no serve warm-up was given. Have the 5th and 6th players play a 10 point singles tiebreak on an adjacent court if short of more players. 40 minutes
Tech Corner Rest Your Fingers, Try Google Docs Voice Typing By Jill Duffy
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oice typing, also called speech to text, frees up your fingers and hands so that you can write by speaking out loud. It’s free in Google Docs and works with dozens of languages. We have some tips for mastering the service. Just a few years ago, if you wanted to type using your voice instead of your fingers, you had to invest in expensive dictation software to get high quality results. That’s really not the case anymore. Speech-to-text services come included in quite a few operating systems and apps, including Google Docs. In Google Workspace, this feature is known as Voice Typing. Voice Typing allows you to write, edit, and navigate your document by speaking instead of using the keyboard. When you use Voice Typing in Google Docs, you don’t have to compose in English either. You can choose from dozens of languages, dialects, and accents. How to Use Google Docs’ Voice Typing On the Web 1) Log into your Google account in the Google Chrome browser. Voice Typing requires Chrome. 2) Open a Google Docs file. 3) In the menu bar, go to Tools > Voice Typing. Alternatively, use the shortcut Command+Shift+S. 4) A microphone box appears. Click the microphone to start using your voice to type. 5) The browser might prompt you to give it access to your microphone, which you should do. Then, go ahead and speak clearly in your normal voice, and the app will write down everything you say—with the exceptions of commands, covered in the Tips section below. When
you’re done, click the microphone again or say “Stop listening.” On a Mobile Device When using Google Docs on a mobile device, you can still type using your voice, but you’ll technically use the built-in speech-to-text functionality on your phone rather than Google Docs’ Voice Typing. From your point of view, however, it mostly works the same. 1) Download the Docs app, launch it, and log in to your Google account. 2) Open a document or start a new one. 3) Tap the pen icon to begin editing. 4) When the keyboard appears, press the microphone icon and begin dictating whatever you want to write. Troubleshooting If you have any trouble, the most common problem is that your device’s microphone isn’t set up or working properly. Check the permissions in your browser. Remember that you must use the Chrome browser to get Voice Typing. Click the three stacked dots in the upper right corner of the browser and select Settings. In the page that opens, go to the left side and choose Privacy and Settings, then in the center of the page choose Site Settings. Scroll down and click Microphone. On the next page, make sure “Sites can ask to use your microphone” is enabled. Also check below in the section called “Not allowed to use your microphone” that you do not see Google Docs. If you do see it, open the settings (click the triangle) and change the microphone option to Allow. Check your system settings. If you can’t solve the problem in your browser permissions, then
check the audio settings in System Preferences in a mac OS device or the Control Panel for a Windows computer. Make sure the microphone you want to use is selected. How to Access Help Menus. To get additional help, hover your cursor over the microphone box. A question mark in a circle appears. Click it to open the help menu. It contains instructions for how to use Voice Typing as well as a list of all the commands you can use. How to Change the Language. To change the language for Voice Typing, go to the microphone box and look for the triangle pointing down. Click it to open a dropdown menu of language options and select the one you want. Tips for Voice Typing in Google Docs. In addition to writing down everything you say, Google Docs Voice Typing can also follow commands. Commands include inserting punctuation, moving the cursor, formatting text, as well as selecting words, lines or paragraphs to delete, change, or move. Adding punctuation is one of the functions you’ll probably use the most often. To add punctuation, just say any of the following words (although note that punctuation doesn’t work for every language): • Period • Comma • Exclamation point • Question mark • Open quote, end quote • New line (to start a new line of text) • New paragraph (to start a new paragraph, as in using the Enter key)
