Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Womens-History-Sites.mp3 Author Heather Tomasello Air Date 3/14/2005 Women’s History Sites Transcript March is Women’s History Month, an especially appropriate time for you and your children to visit several websites that explore the dynamic roles that women have played in the past and continue to play in contemporary American society. The […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/International-Friendship-Week.mp3 Author Heather Tomasello Air Date 2/20/2001 International Friendship Week Transcript This is International Friendship Week. What can be more thrilling than receiving a postcard from a friend from another country thousands of miles away, with its mysterious journey and exotic postage stamps? For years, when I was a teenager, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Experience-Music-Project.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 11/3/2000 Experience Music Project Transcript This summer in Seattle, amid rock concerts and much fanfare, a new museum opened to the public. It’s called the Experience Music Project. Located in the shadow of the famous Space Needle, and housed in an amazing, wavy, metallic […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Getting-Out-the-Vote.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 10/26/2000 Getting out the Vote Transcript These are important days, the final countdown to the first presidential election of the new millennium! Because I know that your New Millennium’s Resolution is to remember to participate fully in the democratic process, and because your children […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Jason-Project.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 10/6/2000 The Jason Project Transcript One rainy summer vacation afternoon my father attempted to cheer me up by promising a day-trip to the old city of St. Augustine, Florida. As the daughter of a writer, I was not surprised, but still chagrined, to find […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Webful-of-Baby-Stuff.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 9/28/2000 A Web-full of Baby Stuff Transcript Here’s Koren Stembridge on the Internet with A Web-Full of Baby Stuff. It all started with an email message announcing the “birth” of the website for the mega baby chain “Babies R Us.” How they got our […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Between-the-Lions.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 9/22/2000 Between the Lions Transcript Here’s Koren Stembridge on the Internet. This year, graduates of Sesame Street were introduced to a new show designed specifically for them – it’s called Between the Lions. The show features – you guessed it – a family of […]
