Image from Independent on Sunday newspaper front page
Updates since original posting: 3
Update: GOOD MAGAZINE (one of my top Twitter feeds) has produced an excellent page of options for those in the US in particular, but many are appropriate here too...
Shelterbox are on the ground, and they have a website which has a range of resources and information. More news comes through their Twitter feeds: @shelterbox and Tom Henderson's feed @shelterboxTomH
Call 0300 0300 500 to donate to Shelterbox.
iTunes is another way to donate: and given that Apple has one of the largest credit card databases from its customers this is an efficient way of giving. Apple will also be giving 100% of the donation to the appeal.
The RED CROSS appeal is here.
If you have appropriate skills, there may be opportunities to volunteer in other ways. Teams from the UK are working on the ground at the moment in search and rescue, and there will no doubt be a demand for engineers etc. as reconstruction and clearance gets underway.
Save the Children Fund appeal link is here. Imagine being the parent of a child, trying to explain why the world they knew has disappeared...
Watch the latest on the events on the NHK Live Stream and also on USTREAM.
Thanks also to David Rogers for posting images from classrooms of colleagues in his department at Priory School, Portsmouth earlier this morning. Some interesting stimulus questions, and use of mystery numbers to start research and identification of key points.
I was also interested in reading Adrian Hamilton's "My View" article in the 'i' newspaper (which my post office has now started to stock) - some good points made in the article, which is not available online at the time of writing.
Amanda O' Dell, a geography teacher from London, also posted an interesting comment on her experiences teaching about the event on Friday.
Mr. Kilvert at @ThurstableGeog was also quick off the mark, and had the idea of his pupils producing some moving tweets in the #prayforjapan stream.
Dawn Hallybone used Wordle and Haikus with her Year 6 group, who also produced news reports using Movie Maker
OSOCIO has already had a number of examples of art work which has been produced to raise funds for Japan, and I have mentioned some of those in other posts.
Some more amazing image sets showing the scale of the impact have been emerging. Be aware that there are some graphic images in that set...
I have also been waiting to see if there will be someone who connects the imagery of the other major fund raising event: Red Nose Day on Friday, with the Japanese flag as seen at the top of the post... and how they will do that...
The crisis has also pushed the continuing problems in LIBYA off the front pages.
As with the previous post, please comment if you want to share how you are teaching about the events, and any thoughts on appropriate resources and pedagogy to use...
Update: Google Earth blog has updated imagery links
Update: The Guardian has shared one of the most dramatic clips of the impact of the water: the first minute or so of this one...
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