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Building great digital citizenship and cyber safety skills is something that all of us need to be assisting our trainees do. Showing them little suggestions like this one to prevent clicking suspicious links is one of the manner ins which we can help our students develop their digital citizenship and cyber security skills.

Bitly is a convenient URL shortener that Ive used for many years. There is an easy method to rapidly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without in fact clicking on the link. When you add the “+” the URL will reroute to Bitly rather of to whatever the initial URL was.

There is an easy method to quickly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without in fact clicking on the link. The trick 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 attempt 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 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 produced the shortened URL..
View this brief video to see how you can use the “+” trick to discover out whats hidden behind a Bitly link..

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Bitly is an useful URL shortener that Ive utilized for many years. As a signed up user I can produce custom, reduced URLs that individuals can in fact spell. I utilize these whenever I need to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides discussion due to the fact that the default URLs supplied by those services are incoherent and always long..