Not all Bitly users are using them for great reasons. Some individuals utilize them to conceal wicked links. There is an easy method to rapidly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without really clicking on the link. The trick 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. That will then show you the Bitly page on which the reduced URL is hosted and will reveal you what the original link was..
You can attempt 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 reduced URL..
See this brief video to see how you can use the “+” technique to learn whats hidden behind a Bitly link..

Applications for Education.
Structure excellent digital citizenship and cyber security abilities is something that everybody must be assisting our trainees do. Showing them little pointers like this one to avoid clicking on suspicious links is one of the ways that we can help our students build their digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities.

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

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

Bitly is a helpful URL shortener that Ive used for numerous years. As a registered user I can create customized, shortened URLs that people can actually spell. I utilize these whenever I need to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides discussion since the default URLs supplied by those services are incoherent and always long..

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

Bitly is a convenient URL shortener that Ive used for numerous years. There is an easy way to rapidly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without really clicking on the link. The technique is to merely include a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you include the “+” the URL will reroute to Bitly instead of to whatever the initial URL was.