Not all Bitly users are using them for excellent factors. Some people utilize them to hide wicked links. Luckily, there is a simple way to quickly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without really clicking on the link. The trick is to merely 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. That will then show you the Bitly page on which the reduced URL is hosted and will reveal you what the initial link was..
You can attempt this technique with a URL that I recently reduced. Bit.ly/ THWTAPRIL will lead you directly 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 initial presentation URL and see when I produced the reduced URL..
See this short video to see how you can use the “+” trick to discover out whats concealed behind a Bitly link..

Applications for Education.
Building great digital citizenship and cyber security skills is something that everyone ought to be helping our students do. Showing them little ideas like this one to avoid clicking on suspicious links is among the manner ins which we can help our trainees construct their digital citizenship and cyber security skills.

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

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, but 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.

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

Bitly is a convenient URL shortener that Ive used for numerous years. There is a simple way to rapidly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without in fact clicking on the link. The technique is to merely add 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.

Bitly is a helpful URL shortener that Ive used for numerous years. As a signed up user I can develop custom, shortened URLs that individuals can actually spell. I utilize these whenever I need to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides discussion due to the fact that the default URLs provided by those services are constantly long and incoherent..