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

Bitly is an useful URL shortener that Ive used for lots of years. There is a simple method to rapidly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without in fact clicking on the link. The technique is to merely include a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you add the “+” the URL will redirect to Bitly rather of to whatever the initial URL was.

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

Bitly is a convenient URL shortener that Ive utilized for several years. As a registered user I can develop custom, reduced URLs that people can really spell. I utilize these whenever I need to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides discussion due to the fact that the default URLs offered by those services are constantly long and incoherent..

As I do every year, Im taking today as a break from publishing new blog site posts and will be republishing some of the most popular posts of the year. Heres one from April.

Applications for Education.
Building good digital citizenship and cyber security abilities is something that all of us must be assisting our students do. Revealing them little pointers like this one to prevent clicking suspicious links is among the ways that we can assist our trainees develop their digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities.

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Unfortunately, not all Bitly users are using them for good factors. Some individuals utilize them to conceal wicked links. There is an easy method to rapidly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without in fact clicking on the link. The technique is to just add a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you include the “+” the URL will reroute to Bitly rather of to whatever the initial URL was. That will then show you the Bitly page on which the shortened URL is hosted and will reveal you what the original link was..
You can try this technique with a URL that I recently reduced. Bit.ly/ THWTAPRIL will lead you directly to a copy of the slides that I utilized 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 created the shortened URL..
Watch this brief video to see how you can utilize the “+” technique to discover whats hidden behind a Bitly link..