Applications for EducationAs I composed recently, developing excellent digital citizenship and cyber security abilities is something that everyone should be assisting our students do. Revealing them little ideas like this one to avoid clicking on suspicious links is one of the manner ins which we can assist our trainees construct their digital citizenship and cyber security abilities.

The trick is to add a “+” to the end of any TinyURL address in order to land on a safe TinyURL page that reveals what the original link was that got shortened. If you desire to click through to the destination or not, you can then decide.
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, 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.

Last week I wrote
The technique is to include “+” to the end of the Bitly URL to see whats behind it without clicking on it. A few individuals emailed me to ask if the that worked with other URL shortening services.
TinyURLs..

The technique is to add “+” 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 used without authorization.

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

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

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