In my classroom, I have an LCD device but I cannot send out websites to the students. (Emailing website URLs is a chore.) They have to copy theURL and then enter them. Whenever I give them a long URL they often make mistakes in copying it. The solution is the tinyurl site which takes a long URL and converts it a very short URL. For example, http://www.authenticeducation.org/bigideas/article.lasso?artId=63&-session=Auth:8D95D4D40533c2028AMsFEF5FFBB
becomes http://tinyurl.com/35m6xn.
Converting to a tiny URL works great for twitter or written material.
Try it and you be amazed at how it makes it easier for your students!
Another good one is http://www.notlong.com if you need to make a URL that is easy to remember because you can select how to name it.
Roxanne,
Thanks for the tip.
Harry
At my school, tinyurl.com is blocked by the web filters… Has anyone found something like this from an education based source?
For example, I can show my students videos from teachertube.com but we can’t view youtube.com.
Frustratingly,
Jussi
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