Yesterday our friends at fur-bearer defenders released this, which impressed and delighted me very much.
Way to teach about flow devices! This lays everything out. My only initial complaint was that it didn’t say enough about WHY to do this, more fish more birds more water etc. But then I listened more closely and realized the narration says beavers live IN the dam and that’s what causes problem. I realized the they should have run the script past a certain beaver editor I know. (ahem)… It’s still a great tool for teaching about beaver management and it had the added benefit of introducing me a new skill.
Surely I thought there must be free animation software available, right?
Ohh my my my….heidi could spend hours at this…you can upload your own photos or even soundtrack. You can audio directly and insert it…you can chose so many of your own effects. There should be a warning label on something this fun.
Okay, of course the free version has limitations. There are a lot of things you can’t do unless you pay for the premium version, but there are workarounds. For example you can’t download the clip without paying BUT you can put it on youtube, where you can later download it – so its doable. And you can string use a film editing program to string several short clips together so that’s pretty exciting.
A pretty nice way to do some long distance beaver education. Hmm. Very corporate-friendly. I can see a city manager watching this and actually learning something. Well, maybe.
