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

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 initial link without clicking it.

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

Applications for Education.
Structure great digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities is something that all of us must be helping our students do. Showing them little tips like this one to avoid clicking on suspicious links is among the manner ins which we can help our students build their digital citizenship and cyber safety skills.

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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 include a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you include the “+” the URL will redirect to Bitly rather of to whatever the original URL was.
You can try this trick with a URL that I just recently reduced. Bit.ly/ THWTAPRIL will lead you directly to a copy of the slides that I utilized in my current 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 produced the shortened URL..
Enjoy this short video to see how you can utilize the “+” technique to discover whats hidden behind a Bitly link..

Bitly is an useful URL shortener that Ive used for several years. As a registered user I can produce customized, shortened URLs that people can actually spell. I utilize these whenever I require to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides discussion since the default URLs supplied by those services are always long and incoherent..

Bitly is an useful URL shortener that Ive utilized for numerous years. There is a simple way to quickly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without actually clicking on the link. The trick is to merely add a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you add the “+” the URL will reroute to Bitly rather of to whatever the initial URL was.