One of the possible topics for your longer final research projects is or could be an analysis of networking technologies or tools that could be useful to university students at Dal or elsewhere. I came across this page -- the Yale Digital Commons page http://commons.yale.edu/ which describes the tools available to students at Yale. Here is the description from their page:
The Yale Digital Commons is a collection of online tools for students and faculty in Yale College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The tools can be used to create things such as websites, blogs, wikis and databases for teaching and learning.
