Bitly is a handy URL shortener that Ive used for several years. As a registered user I can develop customized, reduced URLs that individuals can actually spell. I utilize these whenever I need to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides discussion because the default URLs supplied by those services are incoherent and always long..

As I do every year, Im taking today as a break from releasing brand-new article and will be republishing a few of the most popular posts of the year. Heres one from April.

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Building excellent digital citizenship and cyber safety skills is something that everybody ought to be helping our students do. Showing them little suggestions like this one to avoid clicking suspicious links is among the ways that we can help our students develop their digital citizenship and cyber security abilities.

Heres a video summary of how to see whats behind a TinyURL without in fact clicking the link.

Bitly is a convenient URL shortener that Ive utilized for many years. There is an easy method to quickly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without in fact clicking on the link. The trick is to simply add a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you include the “+” the URL will redirect to Bitly instead of to whatever the initial URL was.

There is an easy method to quickly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without in fact clicking on the link. The trick is to simply add a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you include the “+” the URL will redirect to Bitly rather of to whatever the initial URL was.
You can attempt this trick with a URL that I just recently shortened. Bit.ly/ THWTAPRIL will lead you directly to a copy of the slides that I used in my recent Intro to Teaching History With Technology webinar. Bit.ly/ THWTAPRIL+ will lead you to the Bitly page where you can see my initial presentation URL and see when I developed the reduced URL..
View this short video to see how you can use the “+” trick to find out whats hidden behind a Bitly link..

If you wish to try this with a TinyURL, tinyurl.com/emkns9a8 will lead you to the page for the Practical Ed Tech Virtual Summer Camp, however adding a “+” at the end of that TinyURL will take you to the page where you can see the initial link without clicking on it.