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This description of educational uses with Minecraft includes a discussion of children with Aspberger's, 3D printing, and a video explaining more of how Minecraft works. Food for thought if you like the idea of using multi-player 3D games as an education tool.

If you are wondering what 3D is and how to use it, this is the article: "Timme observed benefits for all types of students. Those who tended to be disruptive or inattentive during traditional instruction were so enamored they uttered nary a peep. Those with limited English proficiency suddenly had a visual that helped them grasp concepts where mere words had failed. Gifted kids were making so many new connections and asking such provocative questions that the lessons often mined territory far beyond what Timme and her teachers had anticipated."

"Revolver Maps are interactive visitor globes rendered by the Revolver Engine. 'The Revolver Graphics Engine is a strongly specialized 3D renderer. It's available as a Java version as well as a Flash version. The RevolverMaps Service bases on both implementations. '....Every visitor leaves an eternal dot on the globe, recent visitors are tagged by the labels showing flag, city and state. 'You're invited to set up a globe and add it to your site in just a few steps: "

Turn your words into a 3D animated movie, creating online, with any browswer, or on your desktop (Windows only). This looks like an interesting way to have students present what they have learned. [Thanks to Christel Broady from the CALL-IS community list.]

"We are a group of passionate language teachers interested in or already teaching in Second Life. You are welcome to join our cosmopolitan Community of Practice if you want to learn more about Language Learning in 3D Virtual Environments." Nice sharing site for language teachers.

"With Prowise Presenter you create lessons or presentations easily, quickly and interactively. This smart education software is 100% free for everyone. Presenter is bursting with educational content and interactive options for teachers (instruction), groups (collaborative learning) and students (tasks and assignments). For both primary and secondary education. Consider, for example: images, videos, tools, Touch Table tools and 3D models, but also ready-made curriculum strands, quizzes and mind maps." Free tool.

3. Google Tour Creator "A lot of teachers are already familiar with Google Expeditions, a virtual reality platform that lets users experience hundreds of places in the world in 3D. But what you might not know is that you can now create your own tours using Tour Creator. This tool enables us to create our own tours, using imagery from Google Street View or our own 360 photos, then publish them right into Poly, Google's library of free VR and AR objects. "Students can create tours as part of a research project, use them as a way to reflect after a field trip, or even as a supplement to a creative writing project. They can be used to create tours of your school, your classroom, or your town. If your school doesn't currently have much VR technology, start with an affordable Google Cardboard-just pop a smartphone into one of these and you now have one VR headset that can be used by a small group of students." T/h to Jennifer Gonzalez

These 360º images would be useful in various content classes and projects. Drag and zoom. Includes science and computing, animal and human skeletons, ballet and yoga positions, music, dental hygiene, etc.

"Students often struggle with mapping out a story's plot. Toontastic solves this problem by using story arcs to drive the entire creative process. Each story arc consists of 3-5 parts or scenes, and scenes are limited to a maximum of 1 minute each. After selecting a scene, the app provides a succinct video explanation of that scene's piece of the story arc (i.e. Beginning - where you introduce the characters and the setting of your story)." Story arcs include short story, classic (5-part) story, and science report. T/h