I’ve been glued to Al Jazeera Engish’s live stream of Tahrir every moment I haven’t been at work or in the car (except when they’ve been down or I’ve been to bleary with flu to see it) and the coverage has been really good. Also the weather man on AJE is utterly wonderful.

The thing is, I was watching the first night they were attacked all night. I SAW it. I saw it happen.

My cousin had told me I should follow this blogger named Sandmonkey. So I did, on Twitter which I always thought was a crock, and then I started following all his friends. And I heard this woman, who I now know as monasosh she called Al-Jazeera that night – from there, from the square while shots were going off and they were throwing Molotov cocktails at them. She called in. She was about hysteric (and why wouldn’t she be – she was being shot at ) until the woman announcer asked: Can you tell me if there are women and children there? and her voice got perfectly reasonable and she said: Yes! I’m a woman. (what a ditz announcer) And there were still children there too because that day had been a peaceful protest. Anyway I did always think Twitter was a crock but this has changed my mind. I’ve been looking at these people’s blogs and photos and it’s all become very personal.

You know.. there was one night they were passing out cameras with night photo capability. They were thinking that if there was a massacre at least there would be photos so that people would see. The heroism of these protesters – peaceful protesters unless they had to defend themselves is more than I can understand.

I do not believe I have seen the like of people kneeling in prayer while being hit with water cannon before except in old clips of Gandhi. I do not believe I have seen anything like this before. I don’t really think the world’s seen anything like it for a long, long time.

If I were a teacher I’d have a twitter stream going constantly in my classroom, following the hashtags #jan25, #egypt #tahrir.

I’d have a live stream from Cairo. I’d be looking at the videos posted from mobile phones on bamuser. I’d be encouraging students to look at the Facebook pages of the protesters, We Are All Khaled Said and the April 6 Youth Movement

My students would watch, listen, hear their voices and get to know the human beings who are making a revolution. President Obama was right about something today. We are watching history being made.