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

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

Bitly is a convenient URL shortener that Ive utilized for many years. There is an easy method to quickly 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 initial URL was.

Applications for Education.
Building excellent digital citizenship and cyber security skills is something that all of us need to be helping our students do. Revealing them little pointers like this one to prevent clicking suspicious links is among the manner ins which we can assist our students build their digital citizenship and cyber safety skills.

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

Bitly is an useful URL shortener that Ive used for several years. As a signed up user I can produce customized, reduced URLs that people can actually spell. I use these whenever I need to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides presentation since the default URLs supplied by those services are always long and incoherent..

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There is a simple method to rapidly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without in fact clicking on the link. The trick is to merely 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.
You can try this technique with a URL that I recently shortened. Bit.ly/ THWTAPRIL will lead you straight to a copy of the slides that I used 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..
View this short video to see how you can utilize the “+” technique to learn whats hidden behind a Bitly link..