Table 6.

How types of digital scholarship might be described using traditional descriptions of academic scholarship.

	Blogging	Podcasting	Tweeting
Example of digital scholarship	Blog post providing a new insight into a novel teaching technique, with a recipe for helping students learn about social justice by meeting patient partners.	Podcast synthesizing the role of human factor engineering in the emergency department.	Tweetorial reviewing and appraising the latest evidence on a topic
Does this meet the criteria for scholarship per Hutchings and Shulman? Public Available for peer review and critique according to the standards of a field Able to be reproduced and extended by other scholars	1) Is it public? Yes 2) Is it available for peer review? Yes, some blogs have pre-publication peer review, others have comments enabled to allow for post-publication peer review) 3) Able to be reproduced and extended by other scholars? Yes, since it is available for review and extendibility since it is openly published on the internet.	1) Is it public? Yes 2) Is it available for peer review? Yes, listeners can leave comments on most podcast hosting sites. 3) Able to be reproduced and extended by other scholars? Yes, since it is available for review and extendibility since it is openly published on the internet.	1) Is it public? Yes 2) Is it available for peer review? Yes, tweetworials can be found by searching Twitter. 3) Able to be reproduced and extended by other scholars? Yes, since it is available for review and extendibility since it is openly published on the internet.
What type of Boyer’s scholarship is this?	Scholarship of teaching	Scholarship of integration (merging of engineering and medicine)	Scholarship of application (helping others to determine if evidence might be applied in their context)