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

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Structure excellent digital citizenship and cyber security skills is something that everybody must be helping our students do. Revealing them little ideas like this one to avoid clicking suspicious links is among the manner ins which we can assist our trainees develop their digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities.

Not all Bitly users are using them for excellent reasons. Some people use them to hide wicked links. Fortunately, there is an easy method to rapidly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without really clicking the link. The technique is to just include a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you add the “+” the URL will redirect to Bitly rather of to whatever the initial 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 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 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 initial discussion URL and see when I produced the shortened URL..
Enjoy this brief video to see how you can use the “+” trick to find out whats hidden behind a Bitly link..

Bitly is a helpful URL shortener that Ive used for many years. As a registered user I can produce custom-made, reduced URLs that individuals can really spell. I utilize these whenever I need to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides presentation due to the fact that the default URLs offered by those services are constantly long and incoherent..

If you want to try this with a TinyURL, tinyurl.com/emkns9a8 will lead you to the page for the Practical Ed Tech Virtual Summer Camp, however 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.

Bitly is an useful URL shortener that Ive used for lots of years. There is an easy way to rapidly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without in fact 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 initial URL was.

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

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