Bitly is an useful URL shortener that Ive used for many years. As a signed up user I can produce custom-made, reduced URLs that individuals can in fact spell. I use these whenever I need 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..

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

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

Not all Bitly users are using them for excellent factors. Some individuals use them to hide dubious links. Fortunately, there is a simple way to quickly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without actually clicking the link. The technique 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 initial URL was. That will then show you the Bitly page on which the reduced URL is hosted and will reveal you what the initial link was..
You can try this trick 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 recent Intro to Teaching History With Technology webinar. Bit.ly/ THWTAPRIL+ will lead you to the Bitly page where you can see my initial presentation URL and see when I created the reduced URL..
View this short video to see how you can utilize the “+” trick to learn whats hidden behind a Bitly link..

Applications for Education.
Building great digital citizenship and cyber security abilities is something that all of us should be assisting our students do. Showing them little tips like this one to prevent clicking suspicious links is among the manner ins which we can assist our trainees construct their digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities.

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Bitly is a helpful URL shortener that Ive utilized for many years. There is a simple method to rapidly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without in fact 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.

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