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Thank you for visiting my digital portfolio. I am pleased to offer you a wealth of experience in the graphic and instructional design industry, spanning over 25 years, as a creative expert in designing and developing dynamic learning experiences and environments from concept to deployment.
Co-Founder and CEO of
Whaley Media Enterprise, LLC is a creative agency passionate about building lasting and fruitful relationships with individuals and organizations who share our vision for creating innovative and effective online learning environments. We believe that learning should be engaging, impactful, and accessible.
Whether you are a seasoned expert in your field, a business, or an organization, we are excited to collaborate and provide creative services that meet your unique needs. Our team of experts specializes in designing and implementing engaging learning experiences that empower your employees or students to achieve their full potential. From custom e-learning solutions to virtual classroom experiences, we are committed to helping you transform how you learn and grow.
As the CEO, I invited you to choose Whaley Media Enterprise, LLC as a partner who is dedicated to your success.
More About LaDale
I Love Using My Creativity to Build Engaging Learning Environments and Course Content!
Over the past 25 years, I have worked with diverse clients throughout her professional journey, including trainees, faculty, and students. My expertise is creating engaging and impactful instructional and training materials and programs tailored to each client's needs.
As a seasoned designer, passionate about utilizing various learning environments, resources, and technologies to deliver effective learning experiences. My professional strengths include designing, developing, implementing, and delivering instructional and training materials and programs that empower learners to achieve their full potential.
Whether you're an individual, business, or organization, I am excited to collaborate with like-minded individuals and organizations who share my passion for creating innovative and effective online learning environments.
Partner with me and discover the power of creativity in transforming how you learn and grow.
My Service Offerings are focused on Creative Training, Design & Coaching and include the following:
- Program Development: Building educational programs focused on student engagement and success from concept to implementation.
- Instructional Design: Providing clients with engaging content creation (SCORM) for positive learning experiences.
- Graphic Design: Providing clients with creating all course graphics, workbooks, and supplemental material to support active learning.
- Educational Technology: Training and Design of Education Technologies
- Learning Environments: Building student focus LMS experiences
- Creative Direction: Project Management for the Design, Development, and Implementation of your program.
- Promotional Content: The creation of all promotional content for the program.
- Guest Speaker: Webinar Presentations, Teaching or Training
Program Design
The Course Creators I.D. program is a comprehensive 90-day commitment tailored for creators who have launched a course but are looking to improve it, or who have taken countless workshops and courses on course creation but still feel lost in the creative process.
This program provides participants with the skills, tools, and principles of instructional design best practices to help them enhance their current course or create a new one from scratch. The goal is to help course creators foster an environment that promotes student success and enhances the learning experience for their students.
The 90-day program offers a variety of resources and support, such as course content, 1:1 or group coaching calls, planning and design activities, a resource library, and a community for networking and sharing resources. These resources are designed to help participants revise, repurpose, and enhance their course content, with a focus on providing students with an exceptional learning experience that promotes their success.
Participants will complete a five-milestone process throughout the program to effectively design course content. These milestones include planning, designing, developing, reviewing, and evaluating the course content.
Upon completion of the program, participants will have a completed and enhanced course that is ready for launch or relaunch. Additionally, participants will have access to continued support and resources through membership plans that include group coaching sessions, professional workshops, co-working sessions, and community support.
Sites created on the Thinkific platform
Experienced with Mac and Windows platforms.
Programs of Knowledge:
- Adobe Captivate
- Adobe Creative Cloud: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, DreamWeaver, Premier Pro, Flash Pro, Animate, Acrobat DC, Muse, Fuse, Color, Spark Post, Spark Video, Spark Page, Premier Rush CC, Lightroom CC and After Effects
- Microsoft: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneDrive, OneNote, Outlook, Skype for Business, Sway, and Planner
- Articulate 360: Storyline 360, Rise 360, Review 360
- Apple: iMove, Keynote, Pages, Numbers, Garageband, iTunes U, Final Cut Pro, and iBook Author
- TechSmith: Camptasia, ReLay, Snagit, Jing and Screencast.com
- LMS Systems: Thinkific, Kajabi, Blackboard, Desire2Learn/Brightspace, eCollege, Moodle, Schoology, and WebCT
- Academic Technology: BlueJeans, Edublogs, Ensemble, Mediasite, Respondus, Qualtrics, Zoom, and Comic Life
- Other Technology: Dropbox, Google Apps, Prezi, Vimeo, Wordpress, YouTube, Go!Animate, Coroflot, Wordle, and Zoom
- RealizeIt
- ScreenFlow
Education
- Walden University | Doctoral Student - Educational Technology - 2022
- Full Sail University | Master of Science - Education Media Design and Technology - 2011
- University of Toledo | Bachelor of Arts - Interdisiplinary Studies - 2007
- Davis College | Associate of Applied -Business - Graphic Design - 1999
Certifications
Adobe Education Exchange
Action Research Project
Beyond the Four Walls: Creating a Blended Classroom with Technology - Full Sail University, Winter Park, FL
While teaching for ITT Technical Institute in 2010, I was faced with the growing need for innovative ideas for teaching design in the classroom. My design students were all eager to learn; however, our resources were limited. Therefore, I decided to use my Action Research Project for my Master Program to explore methods for improving learning outcomes, retention, and overall student engagement.
The Research and Project Results
Full Sail University - Winter Park, FL
Articulate RISE 360
Micro-Learning Lessons
Lessons written and designed by LaDale L. Whaley, M.S.
Compliance Course
Adobe Captivate
Faculty Training
iTunes U course created for the University of Memphis Teaching & Learning Center to assist faculty and staff with using the iTunes U services.
Faculty Orientation Program Outline - Course Map
Purpose of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) Faculty Orientation Program
The purpose for the Faculty Development Program was to enhance the teaching and learning experience that would result in student success. By participating in the program, the University of Tennessee Health Science (UTHSC) faculty would discover concepts, methods, technology and best practices necessary to enhance the UTHSC learning environment.
Faculty Development For eLearning
Participantion is often a challenge for Faculty Professional Development. Therefore, it is important to create elements that engage the attention and excitement of the faculty to encourage participation in the course, workshop, or training. Below is a sample video used to demonstrate a method of enhancing the anticipation for an upcoming course.
Instructional Videos
Faculty Development Course
Course Welcome Video
Course Announcements
Student Assignment Examples
Infographics
Interactive Presentations
The following buttons will lead you to an interactive presentation design, developed and presented for various Faculty Development/ Professional Development workshop.
Curriculum Development
A Lesson On Color Theory
The following lesson is a Color Theory Worksheet. This worksheet is apart of the Color Theory Module design to develop the students skill and knowledge for mixing and recognizing colors. This worksheet was designed to walk students through the process of creating color mixtures using acrylic paints, however, it can also be completed digitally. During this hand's on lab, students were instructed to mix the paints to create colors and paint the color wheel following the directions on the worksheet. Once students have successfully completed the worksheet, they were assigned a final project requiring them to create an original color wheel incorporating the skills practiced during the lab.
Adobe Kuler (Adobe Color CC)
This video was created to introduction students to Adobe Kuler (Now Adobe Color CC). After completing the hands on lab, during which the students mixed the colors by hand. We then began to use Adobe Color CC to explore digitally mixing colors to create color schemes to use in their design work.
XD ONLINE COURSE
First Stage: User Experience Course Design
Instructional Training Videos
DIGITAL STORY TELLING
Music by the Smooth Jazz Saxophone Orchestra - India Aire Smooth Jazz Triute.
BRANDING DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN
Print Design
WEB DESIGN
Photography/ Photo Enhancing
Random Photography
Photo Editing
Logo Design
Illustration
Drawing
Video Editing
Design & Management
Character Design
Virtual World
Always remember to fall asleep with a dream and wake up with a purpose. ~Unknown
Credits:
Created with images by stokkete - "Laptop on a bright yellow desk" • StockPhotoPro - "Creative office" • Pexels - "apple computer desk" • Negativespace - "computer macbook tablet" • stevepb - "books student study" • FirmBee - "office flowers apple" • Unsplash - "workstation office business" • TheDigitalArtist - "project management planning business" • Domenico Loia - "Taking notes" • FirmBee - "office freelancer computer" • Pexels - "browser computer depth of field" • markusspiske - "office home office creative" • kellogg - "Colors" • rawpixel - "adult art artist" • moritz320 - "photograph record camera" • fancycrave1 - "office home glasses" • arnoost_com - "notebook macbook apple" • coffeebeanworks - "web design facebook facebook page" • LyraBelacqua-Sally - "nikon camera lens" • Pexels - "apple books desk" • kaboompics - "pencil pencils black pencils" • AlexanderStein - "colored pencils pens crayons" • fill - "camera handcam lens" • geralt - "human google pinterest" • dangquocbuu - "laptop at night laptop night" • 422737 - "spider monkey email letters"