Introduction to LLSN Digital Portfolios
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Overview
The MIENC-LLSN Digital Portfolio System was created to capture the growth of Music-in-Education Learning Laboratory Schools in periods of transition toward a whole school adoption of Music Plus Music Integrated teaching and learning practices. The multiple media portfolio system is organized around action research projects that contribute toward eight type sof program outcomes: pre-professional internships, curriculum design, teaching for learning transfer practices, rich documentation, multiple shared assessments, professional learning outcomes, improvement of school performance and culture, and publication of work to both community stakeholders and professional community. The success of Music Learning Leadership in scale-out dissemination projects in the future will be traced from Web-based Planning Portfolio to LLSN program outcome portfolios established in LLSN Nexus School Partnership sites.
Many of the digital portfolio pages are reproduced in case study school reports in the fourth section of Journal III.
Description of the LLSN Online Digital Portfolio System
The MIENC Online Digital Portfolio System is an Internet-based technology designed for the creation, display, and storage of user-designed “mini websites” that function as school and student portfolios. The System has two installations: one for the MIENC that is used for school portfolios from Learning Laboratory School Network projects; and another on the CMIE webserver, used for course, Guided Internship, and cumulative portfolios by New England Conservatory Music-In-Education Concentration candidate students. Each System installation has its own database from which portfolios are generated dynamically.
The ‘intended audience’ factor is one that every portfolio creator struggles with, whether as an individual, a school, etc. In some senses, perhaps there should be a way for creators to make similar-but-different portfolios for different audiences: general public, informed public, informed Consortium community. Regardless, the main audience right now is for our fellow Consortium members, some of whom are educational researchers, program evaluators, administrators — but many of whom are classroom teachers, teaching artists, and guided interns, whose first exposure to “this research stuff” and reflective practice was/is through the Consortium.