If you wish to attempt 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 it.

This post initially appeared on FreeTech4Teachers.com. It has been used without authorization if you see it elsewhere.

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

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 include the “+” the URL will reroute to Bitly rather of to whatever the initial 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 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 developed the shortened URL..
View this short video to see how you can utilize the “+” trick to find out whats hidden behind a Bitly link..

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

Bitly is a handy URL shortener that Ive used for lots of years. There is an easy method to quickly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without really clicking on the link. The technique is to just include a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you add the “+” the URL will redirect to Bitly instead of to whatever the original URL was.

Bitly is an useful URL shortener that Ive utilized for numerous years. As a signed up user I can develop customized, reduced URLs that individuals can in fact spell. I use these whenever I require to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides presentation since the default URLs offered by those services are constantly long and incoherent..

Applications for Education.
Structure excellent digital citizenship and cyber safety skills is something that everyone must be assisting our students do. Revealing them little suggestions like this one to avoid clicking on suspicious links is among the manner ins which we can help our students construct their digital citizenship and cyber security abilities.