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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 initial link without clicking it.

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Building great digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities is something that everybody should be helping our trainees do. Revealing them little suggestions like this one to prevent clicking on suspicious links is among the methods that we can help our trainees construct their digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities.

Bitly is a convenient URL shortener that Ive used for several years. As a signed up user I can produce customized, reduced URLs that individuals can in fact 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 supplied by those services are incoherent and always long..

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

Regrettably, not all Bitly users are utilizing them for excellent factors. Some individuals utilize them to hide dubious links. There is a simple method to rapidly 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 include the “+” the URL will redirect to Bitly instead of to whatever the initial URL was. That will then reveal you the Bitly page on which the reduced URL is hosted and will reveal you what the initial link was..
You can try this technique with a URL that I recently shortened. Bit.ly/ THWTAPRIL will lead you directly 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 original discussion URL and see when I produced the shortened URL..
Enjoy this short video to see how you can utilize the “+” technique to learn whats hidden behind a Bitly link..

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

Bitly is a helpful URL shortener that Ive used for numerous 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 just 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.