At the end of 2010, the final-year pre-service Intermediate and Senior Phase (ISP) students at Cape Peninsula
University of Technology (CPUT) were introduced to digital storytelling. As the curriculum presentation was
fairly flexible the students were given the option of either completing a digital story or a paper-based portfolio.
For those students who chose the digital storytelling process, they had to master the academic content which was
to reflect on the seven roles of a teacher (Government Gazette No20844) during their past four years of
preparation to be a teacher, and to acquire the necessary reading, writing and digital literacy competences. This
was accomplished through situated practice in a computer laboratory on the campus, overt instruction by three
educational technology experts from the institution including their regular lecturer and underpinning the whole
process was critical framing amongst the students and the academic support team.