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 including a “+” at the end of that TinyURL will take you to the page where you can see the original link without clicking on it.

Applications for Education.
Building good digital citizenship and cyber safety skills is something that everybody ought to be assisting our students do. Revealing them little ideas like this one to avoid clicking suspicious links is one of the manner ins which we can assist our students develop their digital citizenship and cyber security skills.

Heres a video overview of how to see whats behind a TinyURL without really clicking the link.

Bitly is a handy URL shortener that Ive used for numerous years. As a registered user I can create customized, shortened URLs that individuals can really spell. I use these whenever I need to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides discussion since the default URLs supplied by those services are always long and incoherent..

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Bitly is a helpful URL shortener that Ive utilized for many years. There is an easy way to quickly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without actually 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 reroute to Bitly rather of to whatever the initial URL was.

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

There is a simple way to quickly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without actually 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.
You can attempt this technique 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 presentation URL and see when I produced the reduced URL..
See this short video to see how you can use the “+” trick to discover whats concealed behind a Bitly link..