Celtic Raven

Celtic Raven:

Bringing together expertise in learning technologies, education, youth work, photography and graphics.

Students using mobile phone to study images at a museum

Learning Technologies

Over 20 years experience in course design, delivering teaching and assistance, and finding solutions to making technology helpful and accessible

Technology that’s there to help you swim not drown.

Young girl in summery dress with a parasol, walking towards camera touching grass with her hand. Brick build folly in background.

Freelance Photography

Capturing the moments in beautiful portraiture and event reportage.

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The power of play

Experiences with how play and education have profound influences on our lives.

Previous clients

Recent posts…

Sunlight penetrating through tree tops into a mist creating strong streaks of light

16 August, 2020

I’m back!!

Portrait of Peter Logan in 2011

26 March, 2026

Peter Drummond Logan, in memorium

alchemical symbols for male, female either side of third symbol combining both.

8 September, 2025

What is Gender?

Group of teenagers looking their smart phones seated beside "The Nightwatch" classical painting in a museum.

18 July, 2024

Wrong assumptions.

smart phone being used to research information in a museum

16 October, 2020

Bring your own device (BYOD) for learning in schools

Audience view of pop concert stage, showing lots of lasers fanning out from the facade around the stage which is also lit with projected images.

25 October, 2026

Adding the gloss: Teaching that stands out.

Enhanced and enlarged version of the Audio Equalizer icon as viewed in the browser menu

26 July, 2025

Audio Equalizer

Title page of "Education on The Dalton Plan by Helen Parkhurst"

2 November, 2020

The Dalton Plan

Play

30 May, 2025

Play

Various grasses with whispy seed heads and other plants creating a nice texture and look

6 September, 2025

That autumnal feeling

Themed wedding and fun images

30 August, 2022

Themed wedding and fun images

detail of bridal bouquet

20 January, 2026

What to look for in a wedding photographer (revisited)

Newly built rockery with pale coloured rocks and planted with creeping thyme.

14 June, 2026

A quiet space

Cartoon of young schoolgirl in front of teachers with text "we'd better get her examined - she's resolved to be good."

1 November, 2020

The curious case of St Trinians

detail of bridal bouquet

20 August, 2020

What to look for a in wedding photographer

Front cover of the report 'The Power of Play (PoP) Study'. Graphic of wooden brio train tracks running over yellow surface printed with simple graphics for school, hospital, trees, field, etc.

20 July, 2025

Power of Play (PoP): Role and value of play in supporting early learning and development

Royal Visit

16 August, 2020

Royal Visit

Sequence of passport style portraits of a young girl pulling funny faces

29 August, 2022

Passports and playfullness

Childs bare feet and legs covered with mud.

1 June, 2025

Wet, messy, muddy

Dragon Eggs!

19 September, 2020

Dragon Eggs!

Photo of a suburban garden taken early summer, with some lawn, various plants and trees.

22 July, 2025

The Hybrid Garden: Beginnings

Decorative montage of images of email offers from Miele, Omaze, Dobbies, Highland Soap Co., Las Sola-DE and Robert Dyas

13 July, 2025

Too many mailshots?

Old photo of school girls in field standing in front of school

8 November, 2020

Schools before their time: Self Regulated Learning and the Dalton Plan

Portrait of Fred Keller

18 November, 2020

Keller Plan

19 November, 2021

H5P

Grabbing Photo Opportunities

9 August, 2021

Grabbing Photo Opportunities

16 April, 2008

Audio Tags, Searching and Zotero

21 January, 2009

Dyslexia myth or reality?

UCL Blended and Online Learning Design course title

8 January, 2021

Online teaching MOOC

9 January, 2021

Apps for Homeschool help

20 February, 2009

Firefox Add-ons revisted

2 June, 2015

ICT in Primary Education MOOC

Pie chart showing percentages voting in UK 2016 EU referendum as proportion of UK population.Leave 26.7%, Remain 24.8%, Did not vote 19.9%, unable to vote 28.6%

8 February, 2017

Brexit: Stats or Lies?

Mock up of software box for ColorVeil

11 July, 2022

ColorVeil

Close up of illuminated keys of a computer keyboard.

18 July, 2022

Improving accessibility: Using built in heading levels

Students using mobile phone to study images at a museum

25 September, 2021

What are learning technologies?

Decorative

3 September, 2023

Windows File Explorer very slow to load

Title saying Ireland, with a family walking down a green valley

12 January, 2022

H5P Course Presentation

16 April, 2008

Educational Fusion!

7 May, 2008

Passwords and security

11 June, 2008

PicLens

19 June, 2008

Tip: Firefox 3.0, add-ons and Skype

8 July, 2008

TIP: Anonymising Comments in Word

17 October, 2008

Geotagging privacy?

21 January, 2009

Learning Objectives: failure or saviour?

Young girl with decorated shield and sword playing with water sprinkler

9 August, 2021

Play photography

detail of nepenthes trap tube and peristome

17 October, 2020

All things bright and beautiful…

Young girl leaping to touch a fairy flying above her. Forest setting with standing stones.

23 September, 2020

Butterfly to fairy

Young boy walking with splashes along the shore line shallow water

17 September, 2020

“Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside…”

Detail of fire flame

13 September, 2020

Frozen Fire

Textures

17 August, 2020

Textures

comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)

16 August, 2020

Comet watching

Image of Professor Robert Winston

16 August, 2020

RVC Lecture by Professor Robert Winston

Contact me

kit@celtic-raven.co.uk

Personal project

Fun and Games.org

Founded in 1999. Fun and Games.org is an archive of games and activities for youth and children. Initially based on my experiences of organising games in my youth and children’s work. It continues to remain a free archive of games and activities old and new, with a focus on those that are more accessible and require minimal cost to set up.

Visit www.funandgames.org