Applications for EducationAs I composed last week, building good digital citizenship and cyber safety skills is something that everyone should be helping our students do. Showing them little tips like this one to prevent clicking on suspicious links is among the manner ins which we can help our students construct their digital citizenship and cyber security abilities.

Ive attempted the “+” trick with a bunch of other URL shortening tools and TinyURL is the only one besides Bitly that Ive found it to deal with..
Whats the technique?

Recently I composed
The technique is to include “+” to the end of the Bitly URL to see whats behind it without clicking on it. A couple of people emailed me to ask if the that worked with other URL shortening services.
TinyURLs..

The trick is to include a “+” to the end of any TinyURL address in order to land on a safe TinyURL page that reveals what the initial link was that got reduced. You can then decide if you wish to click through to the destination or not.
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 it.

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

This post originally appeared on FreeTech4Teachers.com. If you see it somewhere else, it has been utilized without permission. Sites that routinely steal my (Richard Byrnes) work include CloudComputin, TodayHeadline, and 711Web.

The technique is to include “+” to the end of the Bitly URL to see whats behind it without clicking on it. A couple of individuals emailed me to ask if the that worked with other URL shortening services. If you see it somewhere else, it has been used without permission.