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

Bitly is an useful URL shortener that Ive utilized for many years. As a registered user I can create customized, reduced URLs that individuals 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 offered by those services are incoherent and constantly long..

If you desire to attempt this with a TinyURL, tinyurl.com/emkns9a8 will lead you to the page for the Practical Ed Tech Virtual Summer Camp, however adding a “+” at the end of that TinyURL will take you to the page where you can see the original link without clicking on it.

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There is an easy way to quickly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without really 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 reroute to Bitly instead of to whatever the original URL was.
You can try this technique with a URL that I recently reduced. Bit.ly/ THWTAPRIL will lead you straight to a copy of the slides that I utilized 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 initial presentation URL and see when I produced the shortened URL..
See this brief video to see how you can use the “+” technique to discover whats hidden behind a Bitly link..

Applications for Education.
Structure excellent digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities is something that everybody need to be assisting our trainees do. Revealing them little suggestions like this one to prevent clicking on suspicious links is among the ways that we can assist our trainees develop their digital citizenship and cyber security abilities.

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