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If you desire to try 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 on it.

Heres a video introduction of how to see whats behind a TinyURL without really clicking the link.

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

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

Bitly is a convenient URL shortener that Ive used for numerous years. There is an easy way to rapidly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without actually 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 reroute to Bitly rather of to whatever the initial URL was.

Bitly is a helpful URL shortener that Ive utilized for numerous years. As a signed up user I can produce custom, reduced URLs that individuals can actually spell. I utilize these whenever I require to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides discussion due to the fact that the default URLs offered by those services are incoherent and always long..

There is a simple way to rapidly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without really clicking on the link. The trick is to just include a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you include the “+” the URL will reroute to Bitly rather of to whatever the original 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 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 original discussion URL and see when I developed the shortened URL..
See this brief video to see how you can use the “+” technique to discover whats hidden behind a Bitly link..