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Building excellent digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities is something that all of us must be assisting our trainees do. Showing them little suggestions like this one to avoid clicking suspicious links is one of the manner ins which we can help our students construct their digital citizenship and cyber security skills.

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

Not all Bitly users are utilizing them for great reasons. Some people use them to conceal nefarious links. Fortunately, there is a simple method to rapidly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without really clicking on the link. The trick is to just add a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you include the “+” the URL will redirect to Bitly instead of to whatever the initial URL was. That will then reveal you the Bitly page on which the reduced URL is hosted and will reveal you what the initial link was..
You can try this technique with a URL that I recently reduced. 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 shortened URL..
Watch this short video to see how you can utilize the “+” trick to find out whats concealed behind a Bitly link..

Bitly is a handy URL shortener that Ive used for lots of years. As a signed up user I can produce customized, reduced URLs that individuals can in fact 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..

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

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Bitly is a helpful URL shortener that Ive utilized for numerous years. There is a simple method to rapidly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without actually clicking on the link. The technique 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 original URL was.

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.