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

Applications for Education.
Structure great digital citizenship and cyber safety skills is something that everybody ought to be helping our students do. Revealing them little pointers like this one to prevent clicking on suspicious links is one of the ways that we can assist our trainees develop their digital citizenship and cyber security abilities.

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

Bitly is a convenient URL shortener that Ive used for numerous years. As a registered user I can produce custom-made, reduced URLs that people can really spell. I utilize these whenever I need to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides presentation due to the fact that the default URLs provided by those services are always long and incoherent..

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, 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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Not all Bitly users are using them for excellent reasons. Some individuals utilize them to conceal wicked links. Thankfully, there is a simple way to rapidly determine 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 rather of to whatever the initial URL was. That will then reveal you the Bitly page on which the shortened URL is hosted and will show you what the initial link was..
You can try this trick 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 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 produced the shortened URL..
Watch this brief video to see how you can use the “+” technique to learn whats hidden behind a Bitly link..

Bitly is a handy URL shortener that Ive used for lots of years. There is an easy way to quickly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without actually clicking on the link. The trick is to merely add 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.