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

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 original link without clicking on it.

Applications for Education.
Building great digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities is something that everybody must be assisting our students do. Showing them little ideas like this one to avoid clicking on suspicious links is one of the manner ins which we can assist our students build their digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities.

Regrettably, not all Bitly users are using them for excellent reasons. Some people utilize them to conceal nefarious links. Luckily, there is an easy way to quickly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without in fact clicking on the link. The trick 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. That will then show you the Bitly page on which the shortened URL is hosted and will reveal you what the original link was..
You can attempt this trick with a URL that I 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 use the “+” technique to discover whats concealed behind a Bitly link..

Bitly is a handy URL shortener that Ive used for several years. As a registered user I can produce custom-made, reduced URLs that people can in fact spell. I utilize these whenever I need to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides discussion because the default URLs provided by those services are incoherent and constantly long..

Bitly is a helpful URL shortener that Ive used for numerous years. There is an easy method to quickly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without actually clicking on the link. The trick is to merely 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.

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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.