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Structure great digital citizenship and cyber security abilities is something that all of us must be helping our trainees do. Revealing them little suggestions like this one to prevent clicking suspicious links is one of the methods that we can assist our trainees build their digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities.

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

Bitly is a convenient URL shortener that Ive used for lots of years. As a signed up user I can produce custom, shortened URLs that individuals can actually spell. I use these whenever I require to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides discussion due to the fact that the default URLs offered by those services are incoherent and constantly long..

Not all Bitly users are utilizing them for excellent reasons. Some individuals utilize them to conceal dubious links. There is a simple method to quickly identify 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 add the “+” the URL will reroute to Bitly rather of to whatever the original URL was. That will then reveal you the Bitly page on which the reduced URL is hosted and will show you what the initial link was..
You can attempt 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 original presentation URL and see when I produced the reduced URL..
Enjoy this short video to see how you can use the “+” trick to discover whats concealed behind a Bitly link..

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

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

Bitly is a handy URL shortener that Ive used for numerous years. There is a simple method to quickly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without actually clicking on the link. The technique is to just 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.

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