Bio
Peter is a retired Computer Science, Computer Technology, Communications Technology, and ICT in Business teacher (1993-2007, 2009-2019) and department head. Peter was also an Education Officer (2007-2009) at the Ontario Ministry of Education where he was responsible for the writing, editing, and public rollout of the current Technological Education and Computer Studies curricula; was Senior Flight Test Technologist (1986-1992) at Eurocopter Canada (now Airbus Helicopters); and was a Flight Test Technician (1981-1985) at the Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment while serving in the Canadian Armed Forces.
Peter now consults in the fields of computer hardware and software, post-secondary education, and education technology.
Peter volunteers with the Association for Computer Studies Educators (ACSE) (past-president), OTF Curriculum Forum steering committee (chair), Royal Canadian Legion Branch 138 (Treasurer), Chapter 22 (Niagara) of ARM (Active Retired Members), and Niagara BMW Riders Association. Past volunteer work includes WordPress Niagara (on the conference committee) and Cyber-Seniors (Tech Mentor).
His interests are computing, programming, AI, photography, playing bass guitar, travelling in his old Sprinter van, and long-distance and adventure motorcycling.
Links
Blog: https://www.beens.ca
Photography blog: https://www.beens.ca/photo
Mastodon: https://mstdn.ca/@pbeens
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pbeens
Email Lists: https://www.beens.org/email-lists
GitHub: https://github.com/pbeens
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-beens
Inactive Links
Python blog: http://www.beens.ca/python
Learning to Fly blog: https://www.beens.ca/flying
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/pbeens (See my Photo Blog instead)
Programming challenges: https://challenges.beens.org
Teaching websites (no longer active): https://www.beens.org and http://www2.beens.org
Solo EV blog: https://www.beens.ca/solo
URLs of This Page
Contact Information
Please email me at peter@beens.ca.