Tag: Fiona Barnes
“From the Top”
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/From-the-Top.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 1/18/2001 “From the Top” Transcript “From the Top” is a year old this month, and we should all be singing the praises of this amazing weekly radio program, heard on many public radio stations, that features the performances of young […]
Coming of Age Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Coming-of-Age-in-Japan.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 1/17/2001 Coming of Age Day Transcript This past week in Japan, tens of thousand of young men and women will celebrate the exhilarating, frustrating, and often tumultuous journey from childhood to adulthood. It’s called Seijin-no-hi, and is a national holiday […]
Internet for Young Filmmakers
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Internet-for-Filmakers.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 1/11/2001 Internet for Young Filmmakers Transcript With the arrival of less expensive digital cameras and the editing programs that are becoming part of the software bundles for many computers these days, you may well have a budding Stephen or Stephanie […]
Kids-Space
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Kids-Space-1.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 1/5/2001 Kids-Space Transcript Kids-Space is an award-winning website that offers children from around the world a place to post their original art work, writings, and musical performances. It’s one of a growing number of internationally oriented sites that connect children […]
Olympics
Here's Fiona Barnes on the Internet with some online resources to help you prepare for the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Movie Sites
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Washington Tour
Here's Fiona Barnes on the Internet, with a trip you and your children can take this summer without leaving home.
James M. Barrie
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/James-Barrie.mp3 Author Rita Smith with Fiona Barnes Air Date 5/8/2000 James M. Barrie Transcript James M. Barrie was born May 9, 1860. Donna R. White, writing in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, suggests that, “J. M. Barrie’s importance to children’s literature can be summed up in one name: Peter Pan.”(1) […]
Robert Louis Stevenson
Today, Fiona Barnes discusses Robert Stevenson's poetry for children.