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

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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, however including 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 a helpful URL shortener that Ive utilized for many years. There is a simple method to quickly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without in fact clicking on the link. The technique is to just add 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.

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

Applications for Education.
Building great digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities is something that all of us must be helping our students do. Revealing them little suggestions like this one to avoid clicking suspicious links is one of the ways that we can assist our students construct their digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities.

Bitly is an useful URL shortener that Ive utilized for many years. As a signed up user I can develop custom-made, shortened URLs that people can actually spell. I utilize these whenever I need to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides discussion since the default URLs supplied by those services are incoherent and always long..

There is an easy method to rapidly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without really clicking on the link. The trick is to simply 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.
You can attempt this trick with a URL that I just 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 initial discussion URL and see when I developed the reduced URL..
See this brief video to see how you can utilize the “+” technique to learn whats hidden behind a Bitly link..