ABSTRACT
This chapter offers an innovative approach to teaching students about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion through an oral history-based podcasting model. The result of employing the model is a multi-semester podcast titled My Story, My Voice (MSMV). Using a case study approach, illustrated through 70 student-produced oral history audio recordings, MSMV specifically addresses how new media techniques are used to facilitate qualitative learning. As such, the use of MSMV provides the researcher, as well as students and community participants, ample opportunity to glean insights about the use and effectiveness of audio technologies and oral history pedagogy in community building and/or mapping. As a teaching technique, the MSMV podcast broadens student learning by expanding the classroom and incorporating a community-based environment. MSMV highlights how the participants (i.e., the students) identify diverse issues (i.e., what does diversity mean?), allows the students to collaboratively engage one another (i.e., team-based project), and encourages students to tap into their own professional skill sets (i.e., practical element).
