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Applications for Education.
Building excellent digital citizenship and cyber security skills is something that all of us must be helping our trainees do. Revealing them little tips like this one to avoid clicking suspicious links is among the manner ins which we can assist our trainees construct their digital citizenship and cyber security abilities.

Bitly is a convenient URL shortener that Ive utilized for lots of years. There is a simple method to rapidly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without actually clicking on the link. When you include the “+” the URL will redirect to Bitly instead of to whatever the original URL was.

There is a simple method to quickly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without really clicking on the link. The technique is to just include a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you include the “+” the URL will redirect to Bitly rather of to whatever the initial URL was.
You can try this technique with a URL that I recently reduced. Bit.ly/ THWTAPRIL will lead you directly 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 presentation URL and see when I developed the shortened URL..
View this short video to see how you can utilize the “+” technique to learn whats concealed behind a Bitly link..

Bitly is a convenient URL shortener that Ive utilized for lots of years. As a signed up user I can create custom-made, reduced URLs that people can in fact spell. I utilize these whenever I require to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides presentation due to the fact that the default URLs offered by those services are always long and incoherent..