Bitly is an useful URL shortener that Ive used for several years. As a signed up user I can produce custom, reduced URLs that people can actually spell. I use these whenever I require 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..

As I do every year, Im taking this week as a break from releasing new post and will be republishing some 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 initial link without clicking it.

Bitly is an useful URL shortener that Ive utilized for lots of years. There is a simple way to rapidly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without in fact 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 rather of to whatever the original URL was.

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

There is a simple way to rapidly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without in fact clicking on the link. The technique is to merely 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.
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 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..
Watch this brief video to see how you can use the “+” technique to discover whats concealed behind a Bitly link..

Applications for Education.
Structure excellent digital citizenship and cyber safety skills is something that all of us should be assisting our students do. Revealing them little pointers like this one to prevent clicking suspicious links is among the manner ins which we can assist our students develop their digital citizenship and cyber security skills.

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