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Structure great digital citizenship and cyber security abilities is something that all of us need to be helping our trainees do. Revealing them little tips like this one to avoid clicking suspicious links is among the ways that we can assist our students develop their digital citizenship and cyber security abilities.

Not all Bitly users are utilizing them for excellent factors. Some individuals utilize them to conceal nefarious links. Fortunately, there is an easy method to quickly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without in fact clicking 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 rather of to whatever the initial URL was. That will then reveal you the Bitly page on which the reduced URL is hosted and will show you what the original link was..
You can try 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 “+” trick to find out whats concealed behind a Bitly link..

Heres a video overview of how to see whats behind a TinyURL without really clicking on 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, 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.

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

Bitly is a handy URL shortener that Ive used for lots of years. As a signed up user I can develop customized, reduced URLs that people can actually spell. I use these whenever I require to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides discussion because the default URLs provided by those services are incoherent and always long..

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Bitly is a helpful URL shortener that Ive utilized for many years. There is an easy method to rapidly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without actually clicking on the link. The trick is to simply add a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you include the “+” the URL will reroute to Bitly instead of to whatever the original URL was.