Creativity is perhaps most about making connections. I used the free web app Wordle to generate an image of the class roster (as of 8/15/10) and I was surprised to see there are NO shared names, at least not yet according to the information I have. When words (names, in this case) appear multiple times in a body of text (the class roster in this case), the words appear larger. But here, all your names are scaled evenly. We'll have to explore other ways in which you all differ, and in which you're similar.
Depending on the text, you can get some dramatic results; for instance, below is a visualization from Wordle of the text of the Declaration of Independence.
Wordle's pretty fun to play around with, and I encourage you to do so. Indeed, PLAY will be very important to you in the semester ahead.
~mrc
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