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The following comments are random comments on various student's videos.  These comments are not intended to make sense to anyone other than the student invovled.

 

When doing the sign for "HERE" each hand moves in a small horizontal circle.  They don't go up and down.  They both move forward, then out to the side, then back toward the body, then in towards each other.  Some people just move them side to side a bit, but I like the small circle version best.
Don't use signs like "AT" or "IN" as prepositions in ASL.  I've revised the "AT" page at lifeprint.com to show how to do the @ sign for email addresses.
The sign LIVE/LIFE/ADDRESS uses "A" hands (all three meanings can be shown by that one sign) moves upward not downward.
The letter P should look like a palm-down version of "K."  You did a palm-down version of the letter "V" and thus your "P" is wrong.
The compare the sign SINGLE/alone vs the sign ALWAYS.  Note that the sign SINGLE is done lower, with the palm up, and with a smaller movement.
Your version of "LIKE" is a less popular version.  More people these days tend to start the sign with a "5" handshape near the chest that changes into an "8" handshape as it is pulled forward.
The sign "I" is an index finger pointing at or touching the chest (compare that sign with the sign "MY").
The sign EAT and the sign FOOD are often used interchangeably.  Technically the sign eat should be a single motion, and the sign for food should be a double motion (if you consider these signs a noun/verb pair).  But what about the concept of "eating?"  I use a slower double motion to indicate a process is taking place: "eating."  In any case, I wouldn't get uptight about this sign. if you get corrected by a Deaf person, just smile and try to remember to sign it that way around that person.  Anyway, my point though is that you repeated the sign 3 times, that is one time too many for the type of meaning you are trying to convey.
RED only needs one movement (for normal usage), the finger is perpendicular to the ground and changes from an INDEX finger to an X finger.
COLOR flutters the fingers.
The sign MY is a flat hand, palm back, on (or in some cases "near") the chest.
The sign FOOD uses a handshape that looks like a flattened "O" rather than a bent "B."
The sign PANCAKE scoops under the pancake (palm up)  flips it into the air and lands palm to palm on the base hand.
While spelling "hotmail.com" you used an "E" instead of an "O" and you did some funky "I" combo "S" shape instead of an "M."  The sign you used for "DOT" is meaningless in ASL and I have no idea where you got it.  The real method is to poke the air with the tip of an index finger.  In "com" did a strange "E" (with the thumb hanging out)  instead of an "O" and again the funky "I"/"S" shape instead of an "M."
Your "4" looks a bit too close to a "B" (the fingers need to be spread) and your "2" looks too much like the letter "U" -- again, spread the fingers (index and middle).  You did the number 6 instead of the ASL version of the number 3. (In ASL the three shape uses the thumb, index finger, and middle finger.