There is an easy method to rapidly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without really clicking on the link. The trick is to simply include a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you include the “+” the URL will reroute to Bitly rather of to whatever the original URL was.
You can attempt this technique with a URL that I recently shortened. Bit.ly/ THWTAPRIL will lead you straight to a copy of the slides that I utilized my current 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..
See this short video to see how you can utilize the “+” trick to discover out whats concealed behind a Bitly link..

Applications for Education.
Structure good digital citizenship and cyber security abilities is something that everybody must be assisting our students do. Showing them little pointers like this one to prevent clicking on suspicious links is among the methods that we can help our students build their digital citizenship and cyber safety skills.

This post initially appeared on FreeTech4Teachers.com. It has actually been utilized without approval if you see it in other places. Sites that regularly steal my (Richard Byrnes) work include CloudComputin, TodayHeadline, and 711Web.

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

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