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Building good digital citizenship and cyber safety skills is something that everyone need to be helping our students do. Showing them little ideas like this one to avoid clicking on suspicious links is one of the manner ins which we can assist our students construct their digital citizenship and cyber security abilities.

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 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.

Bitly is a convenient URL shortener that Ive used for numerous years. There is an easy way to quickly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without in fact clicking on the link. The trick 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.

Not all Bitly users are utilizing them for good factors. Some individuals utilize them to conceal wicked links. There is a simple method to quickly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without in fact clicking on the link. The technique is to simply 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. That will then reveal you the Bitly page on which the reduced URL is hosted and will show you what the initial link was..
You can try this technique with a URL that I just recently reduced. Bit.ly/ THWTAPRIL will lead you straight 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 original presentation URL and see when I created the reduced URL..
Enjoy this brief video to see how you can use the “+” technique to discover out whats hidden behind a Bitly link..

Bitly is a helpful URL shortener that Ive utilized for numerous years. As a signed up user I can create custom-made, shortened URLs that people can really spell. I use these whenever I require to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides discussion due to the fact that the default URLs provided by those services are always long and incoherent..

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

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