The purpose of this research discusses 1) to find out the preparation of pre-service teacher students in using digital storytelling in online learning, 2) to study the implementation of teaching English by using digital storytelling, and 3) to find out the pre-service teacher students' perception in using digital storytelling. This research is using phenomenological research qualitative emic approach with 8 pre-service teacher students implemented the digital storytelling in the online classroom and their perception of digital storytelling to be used in online system. Three instruments applied in this research, they were observation, interview, and documentation. As it is found in this research that pre-service teacher students were easy in implementing digital storytelling, fun, efficient, and challenging during teaching English class, as the summary that the implementation of digital storytelling was successfully done by the pre-service students and the increasing of eagerness of students to get more stories was high which gave an alternative solution in online teaching process.