There is an easy way to rapidly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without in fact clicking on the link. The technique is to merely include 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.
You can attempt this technique with a URL that I just recently reduced. 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 original discussion URL and see when I developed the shortened URL..
View this brief video to see how you can utilize the “+” technique to discover out whats concealed behind a Bitly link..

If you desire 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 on it.

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

Applications for Education.
Building excellent digital citizenship and cyber security abilities is something that all of us ought to be helping our students do. Revealing them little ideas like this one to avoid clicking on suspicious links is among the methods that we can assist our trainees build their digital citizenship and cyber security skills.

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

Bitly is a helpful URL shortener that Ive used for numerous years. As a signed up user I can create custom, reduced URLs that people can actually spell. I use these whenever I need to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides discussion because the default URLs provided by those services are constantly long and incoherent..

Bitly is a helpful URL shortener that Ive used for lots of years. There is a simple method to quickly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without actually clicking on the link. The trick is to simply add 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.

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