Applications for EducationAs I wrote last week, developing good digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities is something that everybody must be helping our students do. Revealing them little ideas like this one to avoid clicking on suspicious links is among the manner ins which we can help our trainees build their digital citizenship and cyber security abilities.

The trick is to include a “+” to the end of any TinyURL address in order to arrive at a safe TinyURL page that exposes what the initial link was that got shortened. If you desire to click through to the location or not, you can then choose.
If you wish to try 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.

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

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 reducing services. If you see it somewhere else, it has been utilized without permission.

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

This post initially appeared on FreeTech4Teachers.com. If you see it elsewhere, it has been used without approval. Sites that frequently take my (Richard Byrnes) work consist of CloudComputin, TodayHeadline, and 711Web.

Recently I wrote
a post about how to see whats hidden behind a Bitly reduced URL without actually clicking the link. The technique is to add “+” to the end of the Bitly URL to see whats behind it without clicking it. If the that worked with other URL reducing services, a couple of people emailed me to ask. The response is it works with
TinyURLs..