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Building excellent digital citizenship and cyber security abilities is something that everyone ought to be helping our trainees do. Revealing them little ideas like this one to prevent clicking suspicious links is one of the manner ins which we can assist our trainees develop their digital citizenship and cyber safety skills.

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

Bitly is a convenient URL shortener that Ive used for many years. There is a simple way to quickly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without really clicking on the link. The trick is to just include a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you add the “+” the URL will reroute to Bitly rather of to whatever the initial URL was.

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, 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.

There is an easy method to rapidly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without in fact clicking on the link. The technique is to merely 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.
You can attempt this technique with a URL that I just recently shortened. 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 original discussion URL and see when I produced the shortened URL..
See this short video to see how you can use the “+” technique to learn whats concealed behind a Bitly link..

Bitly is a handy URL shortener that Ive used for several years. As a registered user I can develop custom-made, shortened URLs that people can really spell. I utilize these whenever I require to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides presentation due to the fact that the default URLs supplied by those services are incoherent and constantly long..

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

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