Bitly is a convenient URL shortener that Ive utilized for several years. As a registered user I can create custom-made, reduced URLs that individuals can in fact spell. I use these whenever I require to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides discussion since the default URLs supplied by those services are incoherent and always long..

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

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

Applications for Education.
Building excellent digital citizenship and cyber security abilities is something that everybody should be helping our students do. Revealing them little suggestions like this one to avoid clicking suspicious links is one of the manner ins which we can help our trainees develop their digital citizenship and cyber security abilities.

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, but 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.

Bitly is a convenient URL shortener that Ive used for lots of years. There is an easy way 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 include the “+” the URL will redirect to Bitly rather of to whatever the original URL was.

There is an easy way 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 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 straight to a copy of the slides that I used in my recent 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 created the shortened URL..
Watch this brief video to see how you can utilize the “+” technique to discover whats concealed behind a Bitly link..

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