Group Focus Areas

The focus area chart for this year's Balfour training is available for editing

The form needs to be filled out by every facilitator:

Balfour Group Focus Chart


Also, each group should download and fill out a rubric specific to their group:

Lesson Plan Rubric

Working in Groups

Creating Group-specific Posts

Much of the work in your groups will be done via posts to the main Balfour GALACTIC blog site. This post will explain how to create a post and tag it with a group-specific tag. This process will allow each group to easily filter the posts on the blog so that they can view only posts for their group.

Creating a New Post

When you log into blogger.com, you will see an orange "New post" button:

You will then be taken to the new post page:

If you then click on orange "Post settings" link to the right, it will expand:

Click on "Labels" to expand:

Then either click one of the existing labels below the text box, or enter your own:

And finally click the "Done" button to apply the label to your post.

Finishing Up

When you have applied all labels and finished writing your post, click the orange "Publish" button on the top right side of the screen to add your post to the blog.

If you want to view all the posts from Group 1, for example, go to the main page at https://balfourgalactic.blogspot.com/ and click on the "Group 1" link in the header bar as seen below:

Clicking that link will reload the page to show only those posts with the "group1" tag.

Next steps

Start posting!

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.

Balfour Scholars Program

Program Purpose

Although the achievement gap is narrowing at the K-12 level, barriers to college enrollment still continue to exist for many traditionally underrepresented groups. Supported by a grant from the Lloyd G. Balfour Foundation, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee, the Balfour Scholars Program (BSP) is a free program for high school juniors designed to help cultivate student academic and career development as well as minimize misperceptions about affordability, unfamiliarity with higher education, and difficulties with cultural adjustment that prevent students from successfully matriculating and graduating from college.

Creating a Group/Personal Blog

How to Create a Blog on Blogger.com

Video tutorial

Step-by-step instructions

1. Go to http://www.blogger.com/
2. Sign in using your gmail address you will be using for the class
3. Click the "New Blog" button on the left side of the page.
4. In the window that pops up, enter a blog name, address, and choose a template
5. Click the 'Create Blog!' button at the bottom
6. You are finished creating your blog! You should see your new blog at the top of the center column in your Blogger Dashboard (example below)

Once you have finished, please email our technical consultant Shareef (shareef@dabdoub.net) the URL of your blog (e.g. something.blogspot.com) and your gmail address and CC Amy (amyhorow@indiana.edu).


Remember: you must have your personal blogs established by May 15th. Shareef will be available if you are having difficulty. 

Please check your gmail inbox! You will receive an invitation to join this class blog as an author, which will allow you to create posts.