As I do every year, Im taking this week 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.

Applications for Education.
Structure good digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities is something that all of us ought to be assisting our trainees do. Showing them little pointers like this one to avoid clicking suspicious links is among the manner ins which we can assist our students develop their digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities.

There is an easy way to rapidly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without really clicking on the link. The technique is to simply add a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you add the “+” the URL will redirect to Bitly instead of to whatever the initial URL was.
You can attempt this trick with a URL that I recently shortened. 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 original presentation URL and see when I created the shortened URL..
See this short video to see how you can utilize the “+” technique to learn whats hidden behind a Bitly link..

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

If you want to attempt this with a TinyURL, tinyurl.com/emkns9a8 will lead you to the page for the Practical Ed Tech Virtual Summer Camp, but adding 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 an useful URL shortener that Ive utilized for lots of years. There is an easy way to quickly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without actually clicking on the link. The trick is to simply include 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.

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