If you wish 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 original link without clicking it.

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Building excellent digital citizenship and cyber security abilities is something that everybody need to be helping our trainees do. Revealing them little pointers like this one to avoid clicking on suspicious links is among the ways that we can help our trainees build their digital citizenship and cyber security abilities.

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

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

Bitly is an useful URL shortener that Ive used for several years. As a registered user I can produce customized, shortened URLs that individuals can actually spell. I use these whenever I need to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides discussion due to the fact that the default URLs provided by those services are incoherent and constantly long..

Bitly is an useful URL shortener that Ive utilized for lots of years. There is an easy method to quickly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without in fact clicking on the link. The trick is to simply add a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you include the “+” the URL will reroute to Bitly instead of to whatever the initial URL was.

There is an easy 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 reroute to Bitly instead of to whatever the initial URL was.
You can try this technique with a URL that I just recently reduced. Bit.ly/ THWTAPRIL will lead you directly to a copy of the slides that I used 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 use the “+” trick to learn whats concealed behind a Bitly link..