a post about posters

Long ago, academics gave learned lectures to small groups of like-minded people.  Then they also started publishing the lectures as collections of 'papers' in journals.  They began to have large conferences, which were like live journals.  Then they realised that there is too much going on for it all to be presented to huge plenary sessions at the conferences, so they started having elective sessions, where everyone divided up for smaller presentations.  Now, they also have 'posters': one A1 with pictures, headings and a small amount of text with 5 minutes of talking. 

So, one project in the Theology of Mission course is a poster on a significant figure in the history of mission.  The list they have to choose from contains the names of about 50 men and women who lived and sorked all over the world during the last two millenia.  These are people like Ulfalas who re-evangelised the pagan Italians, or Matteus Ricci who wrote one of the classic Chinese essays.

 These people form nodes in the time-space matrix (vs time-line) of Christian history.  The class becomes excited as they hear the stories from each other.