Join the
PE Praxis Prep Group
on MSN.com

If you want to discuss the PE Praxis Exams with other students or would like to chat online about preparing for the exams, then join the Physical Education Praxis Prep Group. You will receive notices of updates to The Physical Education Teacher Education Home Page and see what other students think about the exams. You could also share study guides and study tips from PETE majors around the country. Do you have trouble with the motor development diagrams on the PE Praxis Exams? You could scan a similar diagram from a motor development textbook and post it to the Photo Album. Then see if other group members can help you with it through discussions on the group Message Board!

To join use this link to the PE Praxis Prep Group. Once there just click on the Join Now or Join this Group link. Complete a simple form, choose your settings preferences and you are all set. If you aren't a complete Internet Newbie, you will find nothing new or puzzling about the process.

Do you have questions? Maybe you will find the answer below.

What are MSN Groups?

MSN Groups are places where you can share common interests and interact with others online. Visiting, joining, and creating groups is completely free of charge.

With MSN Groups you can visit and join existing groups that interest you. If you like the experience you can create your own custom group. As the manager of your own group, you decide how you want it to look, what features it will include, and who can visit and join.

Each MSN group has some or all of the following features, depending on how it was customized by the group manager:

You can get help on any page in MSN Group by clicking Help at the top of the page. A topic or a list of topics relevant to where you are in Groups will open in a window, click any topic to read it. The help for MSN Groups is excellent! This pages was taken word for word from the help files.

"My Groups" is a list of all the MSN groups that you have created, joined, or marked as interesting places to visit again. My Groups brings all your favorite groups together in one place so that you can visit them easily whenever you want. Groups that you join or create are automatically added to your My Groups list and you can also add a group by simply by clicking a link on the "What's New" page of any group that you visit. In addition to simply listing your groups, My Groups categorizes them, shows your membership status for each, gives you information about group activity, and lets you jump directly to the "What's New" page of each group.

What is a Group Member List?

A Group Member List contains the members' nicknames, their roles in the group, and the date they joined. If a member chooses to include a brief personal description and/or an e-mail address, you can view this information by clicking the member's nickname on the Member List. When you join a group, you join the Member List. There is no way to keep your name off this list, but if you are concerned about security, here are some tips to maximize your privacy in a group:

What is Group E-mail?

Every MSN group has its own e-mail address to which group members may send messages. These messages are posted to the group message board, and are also delivered to the e-mail inboxes of members who have chosen that option on the E-mail Settings page. You can find the e-mail addresses of your groups at the top of their E-mail Settings pages. Group members can also send private e-mail messages to the group manager (Dr. Woolard). These private messages are not posted to the message board.

What is MSN Chat and what is a Group Chat Room?

Chat rooms allow people to communicate in real time on any computer connected to the Internet. Group chat rooms are for the exclusive use of group members. Any member of a group can start or participate in a chat. Chat works best if you schedule a time for some or all of the other members to meet in the chat room. If I schedule a chat, I'll let you know about the chat via e-mail or the group's message board. I'll include the date, time, and subject of the chat. If you want to start you own chat about the PE Praxis Exams, feel free to do so! Just be sure to announce it or you may be chatting to yourself.

MSN Chat is a good place to learn to learn chat! If you've never chatted before, start in The Lobby. It's staffed by friendly MSN-sanctioned Hosts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, it's a great place to ask basic questions and get comfortable chatting. You'll learn about "emoticons," useful little icons for expressing yourself in chat. Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.

MSN Chat can be fun even if you don't participate in any PE Praxis Prep chats. MSN Chat offers celebrity chat events and you can create your own chat room about anything you like. While you are chatting or just crusing the web, you can listen to the music you like. When you find rooms that you like, you can add them to your My Chats list displayed on the Chat home page.

What is "Photo Album"?

An online Photo Album is a place where graphics, images, pictures and photos can be posted to an MSN Group Photo Album and viewed from any computer that is connected to the Internet. The album creator determines who can add, edit, and delete album photos. A group manager determines album photos and which members can add their own albums to the group.

An MSN Group Photo Album provides a fast and easy way to share diagrams with other students and unlicensed teachers who are studying for the PE Praxis Exams. You can add images from a variety of sources: a digital camera, scanned diagrams or photos, e-mail messages, shared intranet files, or other Internet Web sites.

What are Notifications?

Notifications are e-mail messages that alert you when activity occurs in a particular area of your group. For instance, if you want to know whenever a new message has been added to the message board, you can request a notification for that message board. Notifications are available for these three features:

Unlike Group Reports, notifications can be sent out immediately. For example, new replies are delivered to your e-mail inbox as soon as they are added to the discussion. Within one hour of an addition to a photo album or list you are tracking, you will be notified.

What is an online File Cabinet?

In MSN Groups, an online File Cabinet is a place where files can be posted and viewed by group members from any computer that is connected to the Internet. Managers decide which group members can add, edit, and delete files in each folder of a File Cabinet. This is a great way to share study guides and suggest new study questions for the PETE Home Page.

What are Links and Lists?

Links are a list designed to help groups create and share Web links. For example, a university student can post links to different a web site on the mechanics of throwing a baseball or softball. Or a teacher may post a link to a state's department of education. Because Links and Lists are so much alike, the Help topics for List are shared by Links. Don't be confused if procedures don't mention the word Link; you'll find that they work the same way.

What are Lists?

Lists are a way to collect, display, and update information of group interest. They can contain names, dates, places, events just about anything a group needs. Managers create lists using group templates and then create appropriate settings for each. In some lists, members can add and edit any item; in others, members can change only items they added.

What is the "Activity Level" and how active is PE Praxis Prep?

MSN tracks group activity and the Activity Level is a rating of how much activity takes place in a group each week. In general, the rating reflects the number of group activities compared to number of group members. Because this is a ratio, the biggest groups do not necessarily receive the highest activity rating. The ratings are helpful in finding the most vibrant and useful groups on MSN. And since they are calculated weekly, they ensure that the same groups do not appear at the top of the directory listings time after time. MSN uses six Activity Level icons as gauges to show levels of activity.

The PE Praxis Prep Group is generally an active group. Sometimes there is a lot of activity around Praxis Exam dates (college students do like to cram) and sometimes the group is pretty inactive. It all depend on if you can get a few people to join you in trading emails and meeting to chat online. I have even participated in the chat room from time to time.

What is Passport?

Passport is required to join any MSN Group. Passport is sign-in service that makes it easier for you to use the Web. It makes logging into web sites faster and more secure. You can also use it to make purchases online. Passport is used to sign in to a growing number of participating web sites. Just think how nice it would be if you had one sign-in name and password for all your favorite web sites. Passport is probably as secure as the Internet gets. Several well-know and respected online companies use Passport. Who knows, you might already have a Passport!

Do I have to download special software?

On Navigator 4, MSN Explorer, and Internet Explorer 4.0 or later, you will need to download a small file the first time you enter a group chat room. On MSN Explorer and Internet Explorer 4.0 or later, you will need to download a small file the first time you: