"This site contains tools and guidelines to use as a starting point to getting your students, faculty, and alumni ready and excited about what's coming."
This Google Site has been set up by Dr. Helen Barrett to focus on the use of Google Apps to create ePortfolios. On this site, there are instructions on how to use the different elements of Google Apps to maintain e-portfolios.
"Over the past two years, more than half of the 23 campuses in the California State University system have migrated their students to Google Apps for Education. And in the coming months, other campuses will join them."
"The Frisco ISD Technology and Information Services department has been evaluating new technology to enhance learning in and out of the classroom. Their latest consideration involves going "to the cloud.""
Google Apps administrators can use a open source project, the Feed Server Client Tool (FSCT) to control which gadgets appear in the Google Sites gadget directory for their domain. Before beginning, make sure you are running Java 1.6 (you can check your version by running the "java -version" command)
"SimpleSAMLphp is a simple application written in native PHP that deals with authentication. SimpleSAMLphp supports several federation protocols, authentication mechanisms and can be used both for local authentication, as a service provider or as an identity provider."