Google App your Classes! Workshop number 2

Couldn't be more proud of my second workshop! I am keeping my fingers crossed.

Shorteners

I am always looking for new sites for my students with games, activities, videos or stories for them to use in class. I teach very young students (8 and 9-year-olds) with a wide range of IT skills. I usually post whatever we are doing on the blog of our school's English Department. I have already taught them how to access the blog and all they need to do is find the post. But I have also found URL shorteners really useful when sharing a site, especially when the URL goes on for miles. 

The first shortener I ever used was Cor.to. I liked it because it has a clean image, it's very user friendly and you can even personalise your new link. Above all, I love the Hitchcock-esque image you get when you shorten the URL. 

Cor.to was quite useful for some time, until that is, I discovered the Google URL Shortener. Sold! True, you cannot choose the way your link will come out, there's no bloody cut after the shortening, but it does store all your URLs for later use. So does Cor.to, but you can access Google's from any computer as long as you are logged in. 

There are many other sites that also offer these kinds of services, like bit.ly or tinyURL, but having all my tools in one place has proven very helpful. 

Take your pick and shorten away!