Sadly, not all Bitly users are using them for excellent reasons. Some individuals use them to conceal dubious links. Luckily, there is an easy way to rapidly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without actually clicking the link. The technique 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 initial URL was. That will then reveal you the Bitly page on which the shortened URL is hosted and will reveal you what the original link was..
You can try this technique with a URL that I recently shortened. Bit.ly/ THWTAPRIL will lead you directly 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 discussion URL and see when I produced the shortened URL..
View 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 abilities is something that everybody ought to be assisting our students do. Showing them little tips like this one to prevent clicking on suspicious links is one of the ways that we can help our trainees construct their digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities.

Bitly is an useful URL shortener that Ive utilized for several years. As a registered user I can develop customized, reduced URLs that individuals can actually spell. I use these whenever I need to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides presentation because the default URLs provided by those services are incoherent and constantly long..

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

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

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, 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.

Bitly is a convenient URL shortener that Ive utilized for many years. There is an easy way to rapidly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without really clicking on the link. The trick 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 initial URL was.