Friday, September 16, 2011

Relfections of Alexa

September 16, 2011
After doing the Alexa assignment , discuss reasons for using this site as a high school student. Give specific examples. In other words, how could this site be used to help with your high school assignments

22 comments:

  1. Tyler Shroyer, 9/16/11

    Today when I use alexa I could easily use this to find websites that could help in specific projects. Say I was to find popular websites in Spain for a Spanish project; alexa is a great tool for me to find the top sites of Spain or any other site. This could help me when I’m looking for important sites that could easily give me recent news, top stories, and the best information that is reliable out there. Lastly, when I am looking for a cool idea or site for an extracurricular activity, say a club or something, to find the next big change/improvement.

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  2. Cara Stang
    September 16, 2011
    I think Alexa could be useful to me as a high school student because I could use it for a project if I needed to find some popular and useful search engines I could go to Alexa. Also, they have some top sites in other countries so I could compare cultures by looking at their websites and showing how they are different than the websites we use in America. Alexa has a lot of useful websites that I could go to if, say, I forgot the URL for that website. I could go to Alexa and look for that or I could use any information that it gives me for high school projects. It’s a great tool!

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  3. Zack Carter
    September 16, 2011
    I think that Alexa is an amazing tool. It helps out a lot because it’s like a separate timeline for every web site on the internet. But it’s a timeline of pictures instead o0f words. I think that high school students could use this site if you were to have to compare a website from now and 5 years ago, or if you had to do a project on how the internet has evolved over the years. You could use pictures from websites back then, and now how they look today. There’s a difference.

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  4. Joey Bandi
    9/16/11

    Alexa.com could be very useful for high school assignments. One example is say you need to find a biography of someone; go to alexa type in the site name, and then see how reliable the site is. Another example of what you can do is search on alexa for a history site to see how many people used the site which allows me to know what other people think of the site and if they thought the information was good or not. Say if for my geometry assignment, I needed help on it, than I could easily go on alexa and see what I need help on and what website has the best information to help me. As you can see, alexa.com is very useful for if I need help with my school assignments.

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  5. Caleb Nash September 16, 2011
    Alexa is a very useful site, used for knowing how popular a website is and has been. It shows the popularity in the united states, and around the globe. It could be used on projects in school if they had to do with any websites. Alexa will cover almost any website that you need to know about, and you’ll be able to use it with ease for a project or homework.

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  6. Chloe Brown
    September 16, 2011
    Reasons for using Alexa as a high school student are we can see how reliable a site is for research, or see the credibility of it. High school students can see how many people use the site and how popular it is. Students can also see what the ranking it has in the US or the World to see how many other people use it and know whether it seems good to use. They can compare one website to another to see which site is better. Someone could also type a subject in and see websites that come up and how they rank.

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  7. Gwen Knowles
    September 16, 2011
    Alexa is a website used to find ratings of other websites. For a high school student this could be useful information. An example would be if you had to do a research on the Internet. You could look up the top sites for research and to show popular things to do on the internet. Another example is if you want to play an online game. You want to read the reviews to see if the game lives up to your standards. It’s also a good idea to look up download sites on Alexa. This is good because it the download has a virus, people will post and tell you, that way you don’t accidently download it. Finally, say you have a website that’s recently become popular and you want to know its rankings and ratings. Alexa can provide this for you. Alexa is good for high school students for a numerous amounts of reasons.

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  8. Mariah Ross
    9-16
    Alexa could help me with my school work if I am looking for a specific thing like a website and how many people in America or over the nation and used it and what sites they have used the most and the one that I like the most is earthier looking up you tube or twitter or something like that but I liked looking up other things to Alexa is very helpful for kids now I use it for homework for computers class and everything else.

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  9. Taylor mcamhon
    September 16, 2011

    After doing the Alexa assignment , discuss reasons for using this site as a high school student. Give specific examples. In other words, how could this site be used to help with your high school assignments.
    Using this site as a highs chool stude teaches us how the interent has cahnges and improved ovther the years when we weren t using it as much, This website shows us how the websites that we yse now has become ow it is toaday.This site can help us by shoing us how many people use the site and what the comments on the site effect the search. Soemtuimes when we reasearch stuuf for a project we doint know if the websites information is useful and real and this webstie wil tell us if it is or isnt.

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  10. Peyton Lemerand H3

    September 16, 2011
    After doing the Alexa assignment , discuss reasons for using this site as a high school student. Give specific examples. In other words, how could this site be used to help with your high school assignments
    Alexa can be used for high school assignments to look at a web site that you got your resources from. If you want to check Wikipedia to see how reliable it is, you can check the ratings. If it has poor ratings than it probably isn’t the best source to use for school. You check your sites before you use them so you most likely will have a reliable resource.

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  11. Ricki Lynn Killinen
    September 16, 2011
    After doing the Alexa assignment , discuss reasons for using this site as a high school student. Give specific examples. In other words, how could this site be used to help with your high school assignments.

    I think this site can really help me as a high school student in many ways. One being if I have a project where I need a lot of information, I can look at Alexa’s rating of that website. It prevents non useful and false information. If I have an assignment in geometry and I didn’t know where to find help, I could go to Alexa and find out an accurate website for math help. Also if I have to do a research paper in parenting class about babies vs. toddlers. I could look it up on Alexa and they would give me a site where I could find helpful and true information.

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  12. Grant Harper
    September 16, 2011
    Alexa could be used to help with high school assignment by helping us figure out most popular websites. We can find how much people use this site and how often the websites change. Also, we can use this website to find ratings to see if the websites are reliable.

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  13. September 15th, 2011
    Alexa could hlep me with a lot of things like doing school work or looking up a specific website for me to see. An example is if you want to play an online game, you want to read the reviews to see if the game keeps up to your standards.

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  14. Rachel Welniak
    September 16, 2011
    Alexa.com can be useful for high school students. You can use it to see if a site is reliable, worth looking at, and how many people use it. You wouldn’t have to guess if the web site that you were looking at had the right information. You could go to Alexa.com, type in the website that you want to search, read the short paragraph and information given about it and you will know how reliable it is.

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  15. Grant Gose
    September 16, 2011
    As a high school assignment, Alexa could be a very helpful tool. It could be used to look up reliable sources on a particular topic, or on a broad range of topics. It can be useful in almost any subject, not only inside of school, but outside of it as well. It can be used for everyday tasks, regular homework assignments, and even projects.

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  16. Cody Hedger
    September 16, 2011
    Alexa is a very good tool for high school students. Whenever they need to do a project they can go to alexa and find out which web sites would be good for finding information for this web site. It can also show students how reliable a certain website is by showing the rank of the website.

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  17. Corey Rupert
    September 18, 2011

    High school students today have the privledge of using a site called Alexa. If a student were going to have to do a project on one of Abraham Lincoln's biographies then they might use Alexa to find out what other sites people are getting information on Abe from, and which ones are reliable and up to date instead of going through a lot of search results in Google. Students should use this website because it gives you valuable information and site rankings often.

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  18. Derek Shepherd
    September 16, 2011
    After using Alexa I realize there are several uses on this website for high school students. For example, if someone needed to check what would be the most reliable website for finding information for a school project they could check Alexa. If the student needed to find information about another country he could look up what is the most popular website in that country. Not only does it tell students what are the most popular websites in America, but all around the globe. Alexa is a great tool to have at your disposal and it can be very useful for high school students all over the world.

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  19. Alexa is a very useful site because it shows the popularity in the websites around the globe. It could also be helpful on projects in school if they had to do anything with websites. Alexa will have almost every website that you need to know about.

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  20. chad kledzik
    9-27-11
    If someone needed to check what would be the most reliable website for finding information for a school project they could check Alexa. This is the biggest reson i like alexa. its main use for me is only school work. and it works very well.

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  21. Madison Monroe
    September 27, 2011

    After using Alexa I realized this can be a very useful tool to me as I continue my high school career. There are many ways I can use it including writing a factual essay for Honors English where I would need a site I can trust as being accurate but good information as well. Another way I can use this website is for Algebra if I don’t get a problem I can look up a safe and reliable math website that could possibly have a tutorial I could watch on how to do the problem. Alexa doesn’t even have to be used only in school, I can use it outside the classroom as well. For instance if I was doing some online shopping and was looking for a certain product from a top rated website or if I was bored and wanted to find a game to play without one giving viruses to my computer.

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  22. Jaycie Swick
    September 27, 2011
    If you’re a high school student, it’s good to use this website because if you need to research something, then you can go on that website and look at what would be the best thing to go on. Also if you need something online or a specific website and you want the best recommended one, you could find it right away on Alexa. If you needed to research something, you can go on Alexa and it shows you that Google.com is the best website for a search engine. It also shows you that Facebook is the most popular and most used social networking site, and it shows that YouTube is the most popular website used for sharing videos with people all around the world.

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