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Each semester I ask students to provide a bit of information about themselves by selecting one of several choices that best describes some personal characteristic.

VARK Learning styles - W09, S09, F09

• Visual - 3, 7, 3
  
• Aural - 0, 6, 3
  
• Read/write - 2, 3, 9
  
• Kinesthetic - 0, 6, 2
  
• Multimodal - 10, 9, 11
  

Brain Color - W09, S09, F09

• Blue - 6, 15, 8
  
• Gold - 5, 6, 9
  
• Green - 3, 6, 9
  
• Orange - 1, 4, 0
  

Online Learning - W09, S09, F09

• This is my first online class - 6, 7, 17
  
• Catalyst / Moodle - 3, 4, 3
  
• Other - 0, 3, 0
  
• More than one - 8, 18, 7
  

Handed-ness - S09, F09

• very left-handed - 3, 1
  
• somewhat left-handed - 1, 1
  
• truly ambidextrous - 0, 0
  
• somewhat right-handed - 11, 6
  
• very right-handed - 19, 18
  

Birth order - S09, F09

• First born - oldest child - 7, 7
  
• Middle child - not oldest or youngest child - 6, 6
  
• Last born - youngest child - 7, 10
  
• Only child - no other children - 5, 4

MidTerm Student Evaluation Survey - S09, F09

• Good - Interesting and I'm learning a lot - 6, 4
  
• OK - I understand the directions and I can complete the work - 10, 2
  
• Could Be Better - Assignments are not clear - 5, 2
  
• Problems - I need help to be successful - 2, 0
  

Ideal Breakfast - S09, F09, M10

• something light like fruit, toast, cereal, milk and/or yogurt - 9, 13, 22
  
• eggs, bacon or sausage, hash browns, toast - 9, 7, 6
  
• sticky bun or donut - sweet - 1, 2, 1
  
• no breakfast - 5, 5, 0
  

Snacks - S09, F09

• salty - potato chips, pretzels - 8, 10
  
• sweet - cookie, dessert, chocolate - 5, 8
  
• crunchy - fruit, raw vegetables - 4, 2
  
• coffee drink (latte) or tea drink (pearl tea) - 4, 2
  

Free Time - S09, F09

• Watch TV, movie - 2, 4
  
• Active - sports, walking - 4, 4
  
• Use your computer/ surf the internet - 10, 7
  
• Play a computer/ video game - 3, 2
  
• Read a book - 3, 2
  

Brains are weird - S09, F09

• Clockwise only - 4, 7
  
• Counter-clockwise only - 4, 3
  
• Both direction sometimes - 16, 9
  

Video length

• 3 minutes or less
• 4-7 minutes
• 8-25 minutes
• more than 25 minutes