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An exhaustive list, nicely categorized, of blogs with valuable resources for policy makers, teachers, professors, grad students, educational technologists and anyone with a serious interest in where education is going.

Whether you want to be a teacher, principal or even an educational policy-maker, learning all you can about the field and how to be a more powerful leader while you’re still in college is essential. These blogs will fill you in on the latest news, provide inspiration, and ensure that you are up-to-date with the latest educational technologies so you can be the best education leader you can be.

I just love how much free hype Apple’s gotten on this. Business majors and MBA candidates, rev up your graduate theses to analyze how they generate so much press mania (which most of you poor mutts will have to write in MSWord on a Windows machine). In the meantime, here’s a nicely done (and fairly plausible) wish-list for today’s announcement from Alchemist Muffin (because all the other good blog names were taken). Via Slashdot, via popurls.

Which news feed will you follow? I’m going to try several, but Fake Steve writes that he will live-blog the keynote Going to be a fun day.

Ben Long explains histograms and how to correct color problems in iPhoto. Good screengrabs and explanations.

Thanks, Karenne!

Other great resources after the jump.

YouTube has many videos about LinkedIn – this brief intro explains it very well.

LinkedIn’s Learning Center is the place to begin for more understanding of how it works and what it can mean, and for getting your profile started.

Among the good advice is Tony Karrer’s eLearning Technology blog. He compiled a rich collection of links in the post LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers. (Arent’ teachers the original knowledge workers?) The links run from basic tutorials, to questioning his own assumptions about how to use LinkedIn, to finding expert level answers.

A few years ago, he posted Getting Value from LinkedIn. You’ve got a specific question about your work—ideas for handling a unique student problem, or operating an unusual combination of technologies (often brought about by aging equipment, declining budgets, and the need to get something done), or a fresh look at an often-used lesson plan – who can you ask? A well-maintained LinkedIn network offers assistance from active professionals who’ve made it clear they want to answer questions like that. We know they’re willing to help because they’re on LinkedIn.

Twitter interacts with LinkedIn, and with some new apps like Tweetdeck”:http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/ so does Facebook. The recent and increasingly popular Posterous lets a single email update post go to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and more.

There’s a lot of social media opportunities, and they take some getting used to, but it’s time well spent. As a pro, you should want to stay connected personally and professionally with a wide variety of people, to offer what you can and to find out what you need.

Great resource for making your presentation slides look better. Remember though – your presentation is not your talk! Design comes after writing what you’ll say.

Lifehacker—SlideFinder Helps You find Inspiration for Your Next Powerpoint Presentation.

Alrighty, back at work at Georgia State, and a first working post. With so many people wigging out about Apple’s purported tablet computer, here’s a savvy weigh-in from yesterday’s Inside Higher Ed:

Before the integration of the iSlate and iTunesU it was never possible to bring all the course and learning materials to one device. Course readings and video delivered through the browser were often difficult to navigate, and the reading experience was relatively poor. But with the iSlate and iTunesU it will be possible to download all the course related materials, hosting them locally for easy viewing and reading. At the same time, the browser experience in the iSlate will keep what is good about a Web based learning system – the ability to interact and communicate. Combining both the reading/viewing experience not browser based, with the collaboration/communication experience browser based will converge these activities into one device.

via Blog U.: iSlate / iTunesU / Higher Ed – Technology and Learning – Inside Higher Ed.