Bennu’s Bonus Pack, CC & iTunes
Learning ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs can be difficult. From having to remember the individual hieroglyphs, the vocabulary and grammatical structure of the sentences, to the transliteration techniques and Manual deCodage codes. It’s like having to learn several languages at the same time. Many people find it all too overwhelming and give up not long after starting.
Each day Bennu tweets one word in ancient Egyptian with the Egyptological codes and a link to a picture of the hieroglyphic representation of the word. After a week, these vocab tweets are gathered together and presented as a video flash card-like presentation with related (however tenuous) sound effects. As well as including subtle references to Twitter these accompanying sound effects provide a sensory learning aspect to the experience aimed at enhancing and strengthening the learning.
Using Twitter in combination with YouTube, Vimeo, Slideshare and other social networking services, Bennu is able to accompany the vocab with pictures, videos and powerpoint presentations.
Available on iTunes
VOCAB: with Bennu is now also available on iTunes. Simply go to the iTunes Podcast Directory (also accessible from the iTunes Store) and search for ‘VOCAB: with Bennu’.
Or you can simply click on this image below:
Bennu’s Bonus Pack
Now all of these learning tools as well as some new additional VOCAB: goodies are available as a single zipped file for anyone who is interested. Simply send an email to bennu@pyramidtextsonline.com and you will receive the premium pack each week for as long as VOCAB: runs on Twitter.
For your FREE copy of Bennu’s Bonus Pack email:
bennu@pyramidtextsonline.com
These tools are designed to help memorise the vocabulary as a supplement only and not intended to replace the need for structured lessons. Ideally, they are to be used with Janice Kamrin’s book ‘Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs – A Practical Guide’. Participating with an online group such as GlyphStudy or AEL is a great help enabling you to bounce ideas off others and learn with a group.
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VOCAB: with Bennu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License. This means that you are free to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work as well as to remix, or adapt the work as long as you attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
VOCAB: with Bennu is licensed under a
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