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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 initial link without clicking it.

Bitly is a convenient URL shortener that Ive used for lots of years. There is a simple method to quickly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without really clicking on the link. The technique 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 initial URL was.

Bitly is a convenient URL shortener that Ive used for several years. As a signed up user I can create custom-made, reduced URLs that individuals can actually 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 offered by those services are incoherent and always long..

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

Applications for Education.
Building great digital citizenship and cyber safety skills is something that everybody should be assisting our trainees do. Showing them little ideas like this one to avoid clicking on suspicious links is among the ways that we can assist our students build their digital citizenship and cyber safety skills.

There is an easy method to rapidly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without actually clicking on the link. The technique is to simply include a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you include 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 recently shortened. Bit.ly/ THWTAPRIL will lead you straight to a copy of the slides that I utilized 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 developed the shortened URL..
View this short video to see how you can utilize the “+” trick to learn whats concealed behind a Bitly link..

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