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"EON Creator is an interactive authoring tool that allows users to create stereoscopic 3D scenes. It can be used to develop unique 3D lessons with blended learning content including video, Wikipedia, PowerPoint, sound effects, YouTube, annotations, quizzes, and more. Users can create 3D scenes using high-quality interactive 3D content from the EON Experience Portal, which contains thousands of models and scenes that users can access directly from inside the EON Creator tool. Once the content is downloaded into EON Creator, users can add contextual knowledge to any of the 3D objects in the scene."

3D design is a great motivational and instructional tool. It exercises both left-brain and right-brain skills, and appeals to students of all abilities. ModelMetricks books contain easy-to-follow projects based on the free Google SketchUp application, to show how to model anything in 3D.

These videos tutorials introduce you to the exciting world of 3D design and visualization. Learn the important concepts and efficient techniques of 3D modeling.

Free software for 3D rendering

Welcome to the Google SketchUp for Educators Community, a site to share, connect & learn This site is brought to you by Google and made especially for Google SketchUp educators and students.  Come join and help us build it! Google SketchUp is an easy-to-use program that lets you and your students create, modify and share 3D models. From history to calculus, you'll be surprised at how easy it is to see your ideas in 3D. And when you're done, you can export an image, make a movie or print out a view of what you made.

Panda3D is a game engine, a framework for 3D rendering, and game development for Python and C++ programs; free.

Free! THINKING WORLDS is a drag-and-drop 3D scene builder and visual programming editor that allows non-coders to build immersive gaming experiences and simulations. It appears more suited for creating virtual training exercises in large organizations, but with a free developer license it should provide a sufficient challenge for the ultra-techie educator. Beware. This is more of a summer project than weekend quick pick -- just imagine the learning curve if there were Scratch controls for every movement in Sim City. But if you're up to the task, there's still time to join this recently started MOOC on gameification. After all, a tool is only as good as the outcomes it makes possible.

An educational software that teaches students computer programming in a 3D environment

Google Sketchup alternative - 3D sketches

3D game/visualization engine written in C++; free.

free download for Windows to create fully interactive 3D content for any type of device.

free 3D rendering environment.

Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing 

Resources for teaching 3D Modeling with Google Sketchup

"Unity is a feature rich, fully integrated development engine for the creation of interactive 3D content. It provides complete, out-of-the-box functionality to assemble high-quality, high-performing content and publish to multiple platforms. Unity helps indie developers and designers, small and major studios, multinational corporations, students and hobbyists to drastically reduce the time, effort and cost of making games."

Psdtuts+ is a blog that offers some of the best Photoshop tutorials around. The site has an extensive library of tutorials covering many different areas, including 3D, illustration and text effects to name but a few. It also has a Basix section for beginners so users of all skill levels can learn the art of photo manipulation, retouching, icon design, text effects, and much more.

This site has  a service for drawing the graphs of all kinds of functions . With Archimy, you will draw the graph of any function and form, just use your imagination.  The program must be downloaded and is free.

Explore locations all over the globe with historical information, pictures, and 3D renderings thanks to Google Earth plug-in.  

With a variety of transition formats including 3D transform support, refineslide allows you the luxury to mix-and-match your slideshow effects. It also has good browser support, and a Javascript fallback as well as caption support.