Bitly is a helpful URL shortener that Ive utilized for many years. As a registered user I can create custom, shortened URLs that individuals can actually spell. I use these whenever I need to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides discussion because the default URLs offered by those services are incoherent and always long..

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Structure great digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities is something that all of us must be assisting our trainees do. Revealing them little suggestions like this one to avoid clicking suspicious links is among the manner ins which we can assist our students develop their digital citizenship and cyber security skills.

Bitly is a handy URL shortener that Ive used for numerous years. There is a simple way to rapidly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without in fact clicking on the link. When you add the “+” the URL will reroute to Bitly instead of to whatever the initial URL was.

There is an easy method to quickly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without really clicking on the link. The technique is to merely add a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you include the “+” the URL will redirect to Bitly instead of to whatever the original URL was.
You can try this trick with a URL that I just 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 initial discussion URL and see when I created the reduced URL..
View this brief video to see how you can utilize the “+” technique to learn whats hidden behind a Bitly link..