Bitly is an useful URL shortener that Ive used for lots of years. As a registered user I can develop custom, shortened URLs that individuals can in fact spell. I utilize these whenever I require to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides discussion due to the fact that the default URLs provided by those services are constantly long and incoherent..

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

Applications for Education.
Structure good digital citizenship and cyber safety skills is something that all of us should be helping our trainees do. Showing them little suggestions like this one to avoid clicking suspicious links is among the manner ins which we can assist our students develop their digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities.

Bitly is a convenient URL shortener that Ive used for many years. There is an easy way to rapidly determine 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 redirect to Bitly instead of to whatever the initial URL was.

There is an easy method to rapidly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without actually clicking on the link. The technique is to simply add a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you add the “+” the URL will reroute to Bitly rather of to whatever the original URL 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 used 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 discussion URL and see when I created the shortened URL..
See this brief video to see how you can utilize the “+” trick to discover out whats hidden behind a Bitly link..

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If you want 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 initial link without clicking it.

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