ABSTRACT
This chapter explores a digital storytelling classroom activity in a senior phase education course at Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Digital stories are audiovisual compositions that merge music and images alongside each student’s voice as the overarching narration. In the Professional Studies course, students were required to create a digital story on a critical aspect of education as a final component of their teaching portfolio. Digital storytelling encourages students to openly share stories, to build trust while doing so, and to engage across difference. There is a wide body of literature that supports the use of digital storytelling both as a practice in higher education and for the purposes of training teachers. Projects like the digital storytelling assignment created a humanizing classroom space to examine both the “self” and “other,” as students worked toward unpacking the lines that divided them.
