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Structure great digital citizenship and cyber security abilities is something that all of us must be helping our trainees do. Showing them little suggestions like this one to prevent clicking on suspicious links is among the manner ins which we can assist our students build their digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities.

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

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

Bitly is a helpful URL shortener that Ive utilized for numerous years. As a signed up user I can develop customized, shortened URLs that individuals can actually spell. I use these whenever I require to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides discussion since the default URLs provided by those services are incoherent and always long..

There is an easy way 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 add the “+” the URL will reroute to Bitly rather of to whatever the initial URL was.
You can try this technique with a URL that I just recently shortened. Bit.ly/ THWTAPRIL will lead you straight 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 discussion URL and see when I produced the shortened URL..
Watch this short video to see how you can utilize the “+” trick to learn whats concealed behind a Bitly link..

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If you want 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.

Bitly is a helpful URL shortener that Ive used for lots of years. There is an easy way to rapidly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without actually clicking on the link. The technique is to merely include a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you add the “+” the URL will reroute to Bitly rather of to whatever the initial URL was.