If you wish to attempt 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.

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Not all Bitly users are utilizing them for great reasons. Some individuals utilize them to conceal nefarious links. Thankfully, there is a simple way to rapidly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without actually clicking 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 rather of to whatever the original URL was. That will then show you the Bitly page on which the reduced URL is hosted and will show you what the initial link was..
You can try this technique with a URL that I just recently shortened. 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 discussion URL and see when I developed the reduced URL..
See this short video to see how you can utilize the “+” trick to discover out whats concealed behind a Bitly link..

Bitly is an useful URL shortener that Ive utilized for several years. As a signed up user I can create custom, shortened URLs that individuals can really spell. I utilize these whenever I need to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides discussion because the default URLs provided by those services are incoherent and always long..

Applications for Education.
Building great digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities is something that everybody ought to be assisting our students do. Revealing them little ideas like this one to prevent clicking suspicious links is one of the manner ins which we can help our students develop their digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities.

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

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

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