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

Not all Bitly users are using them for great reasons. Some individuals use them to hide dubious links. Luckily, there is an easy method to rapidly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without in fact clicking on the link. The technique is to merely add a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you add the “+” the URL will redirect to Bitly rather of to whatever the original URL was. That will then show you the Bitly page on which the shortened URL is hosted and will show you what the original link was..
You can attempt this technique 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 created the shortened URL..
Enjoy this short video to see how you can use the “+” trick to discover whats concealed behind a Bitly link..

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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 on it.

Bitly is a handy URL shortener that Ive used for several years. As a signed up user I can produce customized, reduced URLs that individuals can actually spell. I utilize these whenever I require to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides discussion since the default URLs offered by those services are incoherent and constantly long..

Bitly is a handy URL shortener that Ive utilized for numerous years. There is an easy way to rapidly 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 reroute to Bitly instead of to whatever the original URL was.

Applications for Education.
Structure good digital citizenship and cyber security skills is something that everyone need to be assisting our students do. Showing them little pointers 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 security abilities.

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