A Fun and Educational Use of Chrome’s Inspect Tool

In this weeks.
Practical Ed Tech Newsletter I shared some of my preferred “techy” tricks to impress your colleagues and trainees. One of those techniques is to use the examine tool in Chrome to see the code behind any website and then customize it to change what appears on the page on your computer..

The check tool in Chrome lets you see the code behind any web page and change that code to show anything that you want in location of the original text and images. Watch this brief video to see how it works.

Applications for Education.
Chromes check tool offers a great way for trainees to see how the code of a website works. I frequently had my ninth grade coding students do that in 2015.

You can likewise use the examine tool to alter a post online to make it a satire story. Print the page and give it to your trainees to attempt to identify the satire elements of the story.

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