Thursday, March 29, 2012

Link Shorteners



If you know about these sites already, you should at least read about fur.ly, it’s really cool.

Sometimes you want to give your students links to specific pages, but the address is just too long for them to type in.  Often times, we just give them the main page to type in, and then have them navigate through to get to the specific area we want them to visit. 

These websites that allow you to bypass this by shortening the link.   Bitly and goo.gl work pretty much the same and will  assign a random, but short, address to your site.  Tinyurl allows you to customize the address a bit.

Fur.ly is even better.  It allows you to add multiple sites to one link. When students enter the address, it will take them to one site with a bar on top that allows them to scroll through three preselected sites.

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