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

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 original link without clicking on it.

Applications for Education.
Structure great digital citizenship and cyber security abilities is something that everyone need to be assisting our students do. Showing them little ideas like this one to prevent clicking suspicious links is among the manner ins which we can help our students build their digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities.

Not all Bitly users are using them for excellent factors. Some individuals use them to conceal dubious links. 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 include a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you include the “+” the URL will redirect to Bitly instead of to whatever the original URL was. That will then show you the Bitly page on which the reduced URL is hosted and will show you what the initial link was..
You can try this trick 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 current 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 shortened URL..
Enjoy this short video to see how you can use the “+” trick to discover whats hidden behind a Bitly link..

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

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

Bitly is an useful URL shortener that Ive utilized for lots of years. There is a simple method to quickly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without actually clicking on the link. The trick is to just include a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you include the “+” the URL will redirect to Bitly instead of to whatever the original URL was.