A Fun and Educational Use of Chrome’s Inspect Tool

The inspect tool in Chrome lets you see the code behind any web page and change that code to display anything that you desire in place of the original text and images. Enjoy this short video to see how it works.

In this weeks.
Practical Ed Tech Newsletter I shared a few of my preferred “techy” techniques to impress your students and colleagues. One of those tricks is to utilize the check tool in Chrome to view the code behind any webpage and then modify it to change what appears on the page on your computer..

You can also use the inspect tool to alter an article on the internet to make it a satire story. Print the page and provide it to your trainees to try to identify the satire aspects of the story.

Applications for Education.
Chromes inspect tool provides a great way for students to see how the code of a web page works. I typically had my ninth grade coding students do that last year.

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