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Peter Beens 🍁📷🏍️
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Retired Computer Tech/CS Teacher | Ex-Education Officer—CS & Tech Ed | Veteran | Volunteer work—Secretary-Treasurer, RCL Branch 138; Chair, OTF Curriculum Forum Steering Committee; Past-President, ACSE | Hobbies: Photography, Motorcyclist, Playing with AI.
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#OntEd Teachers, looking for an AQ or ABQ to take? Check the OTF PD Calendar here:
www.otffeo.on.ca/en/learning/...
January | 2026 | Ontario Teachers' Federation
www.otffeo.on.ca
January 1, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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Alice Cooper doing The Yardbirds #Blues
I Ain't Done Wrong - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYa4...
I Ain't Done Wrong
YouTube video by Alice Cooper - Topic
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December 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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#SilentSunday #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #Niagara #Nature #Landscape #Trees #MoodySkies #Hiking #Ricoh #RicohGR #GR4 #GRIV #RicohGR4
Black-and-white landscape photo of a leafless tree in the foreground, its branches spreading across the frame like a web against a cloudy sky. A dense line of bare trees and brush sits along the horizon, with a faint glimpse of water at the lower left, rendered in high-contrast tones and visible film-like grain.
December 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Was tired of AI photo tools fixing images by changing faces & expressions, so I built a Custom GPT that edits photos w/o touching faces—straighten, fix perspective, remove clutter, adjust lighting. You approve first.
#ChatGPT
chatgpt.com/g/g-694848db...
December 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Patti Smith on music, art and navigating loss | The Current | On Demand | CBC Listen www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
© CBC/Radio-Canada 2025. All rights reserved.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Today’s #1001AlbumsYouMustHearBeforeYouDie: The Sonics – Here Are the Sonics (1965).
Raw, raucous, and ahead of its time—this debut defined garage rock with fuzzed-out guitars, howling vocals, and wild energy.
Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGBs...
The Witch
YouTube video by The Sonics - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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I just learned about the tab split views in #Chrome. What a great idea! I'll be using that a lot!
December 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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#SilentSunday #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #NiagaraFalls #Ontario #Canada #ElbowsUp #Architecture #UrbanLandscape #Ricoh #RicohGR #GR4 #GRIV
A high-contrast black-and-white photograph showing tall hotel towers rising above lower foreground buildings. The Embassy Suites tower dominates the left side, while the Skylon-style observation tower stands prominently to the right. Dramatic cloud patterns sweep across the sky, adding texture above the stark architectural forms.
December 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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If you participate in #SilentSunday, I’ve created a custom GPT to help you generate clean, consistent ALT text and hashtags for your photos.

It’s completely free to use — enjoy!
👉 chatgpt.com/g/g-692c66d1...

(Requires a ChatGPT account. A free account is okay.)
ChatGPT - #SilentSunday
Produces hashtags and alt-text for #SilentSunday posts. Just attach your image and it will do the rest.
chatgpt.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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#SilentSunday #ElbowsUp #Gaspe #Photography #Monochrome #SoCute #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #CanadianCoast #Seals #BlackAndWhitePhotography
A group of seals resting on rugged coastal rocks beside the water. The scene is in black and white, highlighting the textures of the stone and the seals’ speckled fur. A few seals look toward the camera while another swims near the shoreline.
November 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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#SilentSunday #Monochrome #Nikon #Yellowstone #HotSprings #Photography
A group of visitors walks along a winding boardwalk through a steamy geothermal area in Yellowstone National Park. The black-and-white photo captures dramatic clouds, mist rising from hot springs, and skeletal trees, emphasizing the stark beauty of the landscape.
November 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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#SilentSunday #Muskoka #Photography #ExploreOntario #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #OutdoorPhotography #OntarioNature #NikonPhotography #DiscoverCanada
A close-up of a chipmunk perched on the rough bark of a tree, partially emerging from a crevice. The background is softly blurred in natural tones, highlighting the chipmunk’s sharp features and striped fur.
November 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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#SilentSunday #Elora #DiscoverOntario #AltText
A bright, clear view of modern condominiums overlooking the Grand River in Elora, Ontario. The buildings are reflected in the calm blue water, with trees framing the right side of the image under a crisp blue sky.
October 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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#SilentSunday #Monochrome #AlgonquinPark #Ontario #NaturePhotography
A black-and-white photograph of a calm lake in Algonquin Park at dusk. A fallen tree trunk extends from the foreground into the still water, perfectly mirroring the treeline and clouds above. The mood is serene and reflective, evoking a sense of solitude and quiet beauty in nature.
October 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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#SilentSunday #Monochrome #AlgonquinPark #Ontario #NaturePhotography
A black-and-white photograph of a calm lake in Algonquin Park at dusk. A fallen tree trunk extends from the foreground into the still water, perfectly mirroring the treeline and clouds above. The mood is serene and reflective, evoking a sense of solitude and quiet beauty in nature.
October 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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#SilentSunday #StreetPhotography #MotionBlur #BlackAndWhite #UrbanLandscape #IndustrialDecay #OnTheRoad #PhotographyArt #MinimalMood #Monochrome
A blurred white van speeding past on a highway, captured in black and white. In the background, an old industrial grain elevator looms under a cloudy sky, creating a moody, urban scene.
September 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Explore College Success in a whole new way with Google’s #NotebookLM!

🎧 Audio overview
🎞️ Video breakdowns
💬 AI-powered Q&A to explore the book interactively

Perfect for students + educators.

Start here: notebooklm.google.com/notebook/766...

#NotebookLM #OpenStax #CollegeSuccess #EdTech
Sign in - Google Accounts
notebooklm.google.com
September 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Added "Stitch" to my Google A-Z reference doc.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Google/Alphabet A-Z
Alphabet/Google A-Z This document was created to support a presentation I created many years ago about the use of Google products in Education — at a time when Google Apps was just starting to gain i...
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September 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Need to summarize an article? I wrote this GPT for Obsidian (and named it so) but it will of course work for any note software you use. (requires a #ChatGPT account)

Obsidian Notes chatgpt.com/g/g-6887932a...
ChatGPT - Obsidian Notes
A conversational AI system that listens, learns, and challenges
chatgpt.com
September 6, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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I built two custom GPTs that streamline note-taking in #obsidian Find Keywords, which extracts Obsidian-formatted keywords, and Obsidian Topic Page Generator, which turns those keywords into structured topic pages with summaries and context.

Read more here:

tinyurl.com/3y4n385d
Free Tools for Obsidian Users: Keyword Finder & Topic Page Generator | Beens' Blog
I built two custom GPTs that make note-taking in Obsidian faster and more structured: Find Keywords, which extracts Obsidian-formatted keywords from any text, and Obsidian Topic Page Generator, which ...
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September 2, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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I’ve been experimenting with #GoogleAIStudio text-to-speech voices for short data analysis tutorials, so I made a video (<3 min) to compare them.

It includes chapter markers to make it easy to bounce back and forth between voices.

youtu.be/dFE7TPF8Uu4?...

#TTS #VoiceAI #AI #TextToSpeech
Google AI Studio TTS Voices | Which One Sounds Best?
YouTube video by Peter Beens
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August 31, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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#SilentSunday #BadlandsNationalPark #Bison #WildlifePhotography #Photography #Nikon #AltText
A solitary bison stands in an open grassland under a clear blue sky at Badlands National Park, with patches of green and golden-brown vegetation in the background.
August 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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#SilentSunday #PrinceEdwardIsland #ConfederationBridge #PEI #ElbowsUp
The image shows a scenic coastal view of Prince Edward Island with the Confederation Bridge stretching across the water in the background. The bridge, supported by evenly spaced concrete pillars, extends from the right side of the frame toward the horizon on the left, disappearing into the distance. In the foreground, reddish-brown rocks and grassy patches with small wildflowers slope down toward a narrow strip of reddish sand and calm, rippling water. The sky above is partly cloudy, with soft sunlight creating a bright but slightly hazy atmosphere.
August 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Gemini-CLI Prompt Creator is a Custom GPT I created that converts unstructured issue descriptions into concise, command-line-ready prompts for tools like Gemini CLI.

Usable by all ChatGPT users, including free-tier.

chatgpt.com/g/g-688bb6eb...

#AI #DevTools #PromptEngineering #GeminiCLI
ChatGPT - Gemini-CLI Prompt Creator
Helps create shortened, command line-friendly prompts for Gemini-CLI (or other similar AI programming tools)
chatgpt.com
July 31, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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@pythonbytes.fm Not posting your new episodes to the socials anymore?
July 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM