ASK won the CILIP UC&R Innovation Award in 2007. It is an online tool which aims to help undergraduate students with thier first assignment by providing them with a 10 step model to work through. I loved the way it allows students to enter the type of assignment and submission date and then works out a work schedule for them (though I would also have liked to see it give the students the skills to do this planning themselves). I also liked the way students can personalise the portal and that it includes some IT and study skills (writing, reflecting, reviewing etc)Alison Pope, Geoff Walton and Julie Adams from Staffordshire University have plans to develop ASK with Web 2.0 technologies, videos and podcasts as well as extending it to cover other tasks such as creating posters and giving presntations. ASK is available under a Creative Commons licence.
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This is a great idea Moira – anything that helps students at the start of their academic studies is a plus.