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

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There is a simple way to quickly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without actually clicking on the link. The technique is to just 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.
You can try this trick with a URL that I 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 initial presentation URL and see when I created the shortened URL..
Enjoy this short video to see how you can utilize the “+” technique to learn whats hidden behind a Bitly link..

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

Bitly is a convenient URL shortener that Ive utilized for numerous years. As a registered user I can produce custom-made, shortened URLs that people can really spell. I utilize these whenever I require to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides discussion because the default URLs supplied by those services are incoherent and constantly long..

Bitly is a helpful URL shortener that Ive used for lots of years. 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 include the “+” the URL will reroute to Bitly rather of to whatever the original URL was.

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.

Applications for Education.
Building great digital citizenship and cyber safety skills is something that everybody ought to be helping our students do. Showing them little suggestions like this one to prevent clicking on suspicious links is among the methods that we can help our trainees develop their digital citizenship and cyber safety skills.