Bitly is a convenient URL shortener that Ive used for lots of years. There is an easy method to quickly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without in fact clicking on the link. When you add the “+” the URL will redirect to Bitly instead of to whatever the original URL was.

There is an easy method to rapidly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without really clicking on the link. The trick is to just add a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you include the “+” the URL will redirect to Bitly rather of to whatever the original URL was.
You can try this trick with a URL that I 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 produced the reduced URL..
View this brief video to see how you can use the “+” trick to discover whats hidden behind a Bitly link..

Bitly is a handy URL shortener that Ive used for several years. As a registered user I can develop custom-made, reduced URLs that individuals can in fact 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 supplied by those services are always long and incoherent..

This post originally appeared on FreeTech4Teachers.com. It has been utilized without approval if you see it somewhere else. Websites that regularly steal my (Richard Byrnes) work include CloudComputin, TodayHeadline, and 711Web.

Applications for Education.
Structure good digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities is something that everyone need to be assisting our trainees do. Showing them little pointers like this one to avoid clicking on suspicious links is among the methods that we can assist our trainees develop their digital citizenship and cyber security skills.