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Building good digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities is something that everybody must be assisting our trainees do. Revealing them little tips like this one to avoid clicking on suspicious links is one of the methods that we can help our trainees construct their digital citizenship and cyber security abilities.

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

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 adding a “+” at the end of that TinyURL will take you to the page where you can see the original link without clicking it.

Regrettably, not all Bitly users are utilizing them for excellent reasons. Some individuals use them to hide dubious links. Luckily, there is an easy method to quickly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without actually clicking the link. The trick is to merely add a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you include the “+” the URL will reroute to Bitly instead of to whatever the initial URL was. That will then reveal you the Bitly page on which the reduced URL is hosted and will reveal you what the initial link was..
You can try this technique with a URL that I recently shortened. Bit.ly/ THWTAPRIL will lead you straight to a copy of the slides that I used 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 reduced URL..
Watch this short video to see how you can use the “+” technique to learn whats hidden behind a Bitly link..

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

Bitly is a helpful URL shortener that Ive utilized for several years. As a registered user I can develop customized, reduced URLs that people can in fact spell. I utilize these whenever I require to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides presentation due to the fact that the default URLs supplied by those services are incoherent and always long..

Bitly is a helpful URL shortener that Ive utilized for lots of years. There is a simple way to quickly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without actually 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 instead of to whatever the original URL was.

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