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Bitly is a helpful URL shortener that Ive used for several years. As a registered user I can produce custom, shortened URLs that individuals can actually spell. I utilize these whenever I need to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides presentation because the default URLs offered by those services are incoherent and constantly long..

Bitly is an useful URL shortener that Ive used for lots of years. There is a simple method to quickly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without actually clicking on the link. When you add the “+” the URL will reroute to Bitly rather of to whatever the original URL was.

There is an easy method to rapidly determine 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 initial URL was.
You can attempt 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 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 produced the reduced URL..
Watch this brief video to see how you can use the “+” technique to discover whats concealed behind a Bitly link..

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