Community Links

Some links to digital places of interest around the BHS community.

Official Sites

Berkeley High School — The official website of Berkeley High School.
BUSD — Site for the Berkeley Unified School District.
Berkeley High PTSA — The online location of the BHS Parent Teacher Student Association.
Berkeley PTA — Site of the Berkeley PTA; contains valuable information about upcoming events, informational resources, that sort of thing.
The Jacket — Site for the Jacket, Berkeley High’s student-run school newspaper.

happiland.2y.net — The personal site of Mischa Spiegelmock, a current student (’05). Updated with some frequency and featuring a metric ton of home-cooked photos.
Andy Moskowitz — The personal site of Andy Moskowitz, an ex-student. Classic blog format.
Gwar Like Whoa — The personal site of Rachel Rudy. Blog of a current BHS student regarding life and all that.
The Infinite Abyss of Bliss — The personal site of Ram Dass Khalsa. Blog of a current BHS student. Old blog is here.
POWs — A guide to the POWs offered to the Geometry and Algebra classes, published by ’05 Aaron Mazel-Gee. No longer updated.

Berkeley Parents Network — Site for the Berkeley Parents Network. Full of information about . . . well, raising children.
http://parents.berkeley.edu/mlist.html — The subscription page on the Parents Network site for the “Berkeley Parents” and “Parents of Teens” email newsletters. A useful resource for parents.
bhs-request@idiom.com — The email address to subscribe to the Berkeley High “etree”. The etree is a community-run email mailing list to give announcements and information to Berkeley High parents, students, teachers, and other interested parties. To subscribe to the list, send an email to bhs-request@idiom.com with the word SUBSCRIBE as the subject line. You will be automatically subscribed to future mailings.
Collegeboard.com — Your one-stop (well, one of several stops) source for aid in the journey of heading to college.
California Virtual High School — The California Virtual High School, a program dedicated to providing help with standardized tests (primarily the SAT and ACT). Tutorials, study guides, practice sheets, the works.
FastWeb — Information on college scholarships and financial aid. A comprehensive source for scholarship information — good stuff.
Test Pre-Preview — Free preparation course and practice tests for the California High School Proficiency Exam.

GuruNet — A semi-free (usable without charge, but limited) online research tool. Much like a search engine, it will provide information on whatever you ask for, from “cheese” to “the Battle Hymn of the Republic,” drawing from dozens of sources; unlike a search engine, it yields pure information, not webpages. An outstanding tool for general “what is it?” questions.
Reference.com — A good tool for accessing listings and definitions; easily searchable, and it will pull up results from numerous encyclopedias and reference books. Excellent as an online dictionary.
SparkNotes — The proverbial one-stop shop for homework help, guides, explanations, and more, all very friendly and understandable. Just about every subject you can think of is covered, though English is its traditional use.
Highschool Hub — A vast hub of information, containing virtually everything a high school student could want. All subjects.
iTools — A quick and easy research utility, providing tools to search an assortment of sources for the information you need.

Babelfish — An online translator, easy to use and available in most languages. Simply plug in text and it will translate it to your language of choice; translations are often poor for complex sentences and phrases, but it’s perfectly servicable an easy-to-use dictionary.
FreeTranslation — Yet another foreign language translator, often more accurate and useful than Babelfish.
Wordreference — An excellent online version of the HarperCollins foreign language dictionaries; English/Spanish, English/German, English/French, and more. Extremely comprehensive.
Google Translator — A translator similar to Babelfish. Still in an experimental form, but it works tolerably well.

Bartleby.com — An extremely large site providing access to books and information, free — quotes, references, literature, the works.
Questia — “The Online Library,” they call themselves, and they’re right. You can literally get access to, read and search entire books through the site. Amazingly handy for research.

MathForum — Everything you’d ever want to know about math and then some. Math resources, math tutorials, math problems, math references, math lectures . . .
Hotmath — A site designed to help high school students with their math homework. Contains assorted answers to math exercises from various popular textbooks. Free if a teacher or school registers, free for samples, a $30 fee for everything else (Berkeley High has a license, so ask your math teacher about it).

All Science Fair Projects — A free compilation of science fair project ideas, useful for anyone looking for a topic for a project.
BiologyHuman.com — Biology teacher Brandon Delp-Stiller’s website, mostly with information for his classes but also containing material of interest to any biology student.
CrashWhite.com — Physics teacher Richard White’s website, mostly with information for his classes but also containing material of interest to any physics student, including a discussion board.

Berkeley High Crew — Site of the BHS Crew team.
Berkeley High Cross Country — Site of the BHS Cross Country team.
Berkeley High Jazz Ensemble — Site for the BHS Jazz Ensemble. Schedules and information.

Hellof.com — A site with community-submitted stories about Berkeley, Berkeley High, and similar things.
High School Journalism — Celebrating the art of high school journalism, this large site has links to high school newspapers, guidance, and numerous resources.
Youth Together — Home of Youth Together, a community-based group that works to promote racial unity, non-violence, youth empowerment and voice, good stuff like that. Nice site and good cause.