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

Bitly is a helpful URL shortener that Ive utilized for numerous years. There is a simple way to rapidly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without really clicking on the link. The trick is to merely 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.

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 it.

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

Applications for Education.
Structure excellent digital citizenship and cyber security skills is something that all of us ought to be assisting our students do. Showing them little suggestions like this one to prevent clicking on suspicious links is among the manner ins which we can assist our trainees construct their digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities.

Bitly is a handy URL shortener that Ive used for numerous years. As a registered user I can create 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 because the default URLs supplied by those services are always long and incoherent..

There is an easy method to quickly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without really clicking on the link. The technique is to just include a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you include the “+” the URL will redirect to Bitly instead of to whatever the original URL was.
You can attempt this trick 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 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 developed the shortened URL..
See this brief video to see how you can utilize the “+” trick to discover whats concealed behind a Bitly link..