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High, this is Amy and today I want to talk to you
guys who were administrators about using short
URL's so this might seem like why do I need to know that you know
house at Everton impacts me and wanna try to come
convention that this could be a really big deal for you to use as well as
for you to model for teachers so the idea is let's say you're having
a faculty meeting or something like that and you've created a document like this
one in you want people to comment on it or collaborate on it
well if you have a good group of people who you don't already have in a mailing
list then
it can be you know it can be difficult to get them all to this web address it
up here in a
top in my on the box because it's too long for
anyone to type in so what you want to be able to do is you want to be able to
shorten that address down so that people can actually
get to this web address because nobody can type that in
this is obviously really valuable for teachers in the classroom when you want
students to be able to do work on a document together to collaborate
or you know just to get to the same webpage even
alright so that's the purpose of the tool and now I wanna show you how you
can use it
so the first thing you want to do is you wanna install the Chrome extension
so I'm just toppled over to an account that doesn't already have that extension
installed so that I can show you how it works
so when you want to install a new extension in Chrome and you're using
a regular computer then you open up a new tab so you can always click that
little tab on the end and that will give you a new tab
and when you click that you're gonna see an opportunity to get to the Chrome Web
Store which is right here
if you're using a Chromebook when you look down in the bottom right hand
corner right down here and you'll see a series of little
squares inside a square and that's where you click to get to the Chrome Web Store
so let's go into the store and then let's look for
the extension that we're gonna use today which is called
bitly so we're gonna type NBA t dot al life
and it is an extension not an app so we want to make sure that we're looking for
the correct thing see how at the top we've got absolutist id
and down here we've got extensions listed so we wanna find the correct one
and this is it right here Bentley so this is Ed
really awesome is my new favorite thing I found so
it's got a little blowfish there see I thought it was a bird at first cuz it
looks kinda like a bird but apparently it's not it's a Blowfish
so where to click on where it says plus free
if and we're gonna choose add to add it to our browser
and once we see it pop up and then take mine and move it over here so you can
really see it
and now once we've added it we're gonna authorize the extension so sometimes
when you first get an extension
you gonna need to sign into it so I'm gonna
authorized for use with chrome I just clicked on it this page appeared
and I'm gonna choose sign in with your email address so
let me try my email address so if you don't already have an account
it's not gonna let you just type in your email address in your password you can
actually have to
sign up for an account and I am show you in just a second how to get to that
place to do that
so I'm gonna leave the settings as they are default
and now I can just start using Bentley but let's pretend that you don't already
have an account
anyone I set one up with your email address you don't use Facebook or
Twitter or you don't want to use that
account so I'm let's go ahead and look at how to get to that page
so if you don't have an account already you don't want to use Facebook or
Twitter then you can just go to bed
Lee dot com and you can click on join now.
and you can actually create an account right here with your email address
but I've already got an account so I'm just gonna sign back in again
and then we'll look at how to use the extension alright so here we are
and I'm logged into Bentley dot com now am also
authorize this extension so let's pretend a scenario let's pretend that
um we're in a class and we've all navigated to this awesome webpage that
women plump a nice webpage so we can we pretend
so years and I some webpages let's pretend that we want everybody to get to
this page
so I'm gonna click My Little that Lee fish
over here since I know its fish house almost said bird again but it's a fish
and I'm gonna allow my extension if you haven't done that already it will make
you login
and on let's try that again because you you really shouldn't have that many
steps I just get that got that because I signed out just now
so let me try it again I'm in a shortened my URL by clicking my
blowfish appear
heart so click the fish
there we are we're gonna click Save that mark I don't want to type a note on that
one
and now we have a couple have options
we can if we want just use this URL that's right here and this can be our
short URL
someone hit I'm come and see on that and I'm an ATPase entire document over here
so you can see what that looks like
so this is an on edited short URL
and this will work and we can be whoops sorry wrong
URL may copy that someone to go back over to our page hit
the copy button and then I'm gonna pasted in this document so you can see
what it looks like
so there it is and this short URL well work and we can use that
people can type that in on but its its kinda long it's not as easy to type in
this may be a real word would be
so let's go back over to our page and let's actually
edits that that mark so
let's make this mom my district is hist Huntsville I S T so will do
hast design and now I'll hit
inner on my keyboard and now the URL since no one else had chosen that
already
now the URLs hist dash designs so now let me copy that
and I'm gonna go back over to my document and I can pace this and I can
put it up on the big screen
so everybody can see it and they'll be able to all get to this webpage
so let me get a couple people to click this so that we can look at the stats on
so here's another example of how we can use this so I'm gonna ask people on
Twitter
to click this URL so that I can build some stats on it too showy for our video
but what that lets me do is let's say I'm working on
you know a weekly newsletter or something like that and i wanna see how
many people
actually click the links that I put in this newsletter well if I use Bentley
to build those short URL I'm gonna be able to see statistics
so now when I go back to I'm deadly and I look at the life of this link so far
I can see that as i've when I click that button to people had clicked this
let's go back and I'm see how to get to our whole list
I love you are also we can see what's happened to them
alright so here we are and I just went to Bentley dot com
and since I'm logged and it shows me its your stuff up here at the top and hair
my bookmarks
and I can see that as I have a couple minutes ago three people have click my
link
and now I can go into view stats and I can see more information
so here we are and Tom I've had
three clicks II at 1:56 another click at 1:57
and let's see mom three of those came from Twitter and I probably clicked at
once from my machine
everybody is in the United States and um
these are the other people who have also shared that link to that exact same page
so that's kinda interesting to you
on I can also get some more information about this
i cant get a QR code if I
download this QR code if you scan that s right now
it would actually make it so you go to that same webpage so if you have mobile
users in your audience
you'll have a QR code that you can use also get them there
I can email it to someone and then I can also posted on Facebook or Twitter
so let's see if we got any more clicks on it since we were working on this
tutorial
and we did you can see we got a couple more clicks here
so that will keep growing as people keep clicking that link
so I'm if you're watching from Twitter and wanted this tutorial and that's why
I clicked the link thanks for doing that
alright so let's just recap we wanna get that deadly extension in Chrome
it really has the most access any URL shortener
I really used to be in love with good I G Allen is so my friend but I have to
move it over one
because Bentley has the added om ability to let me
customize those but marks or not that's super valuable
I didn't show you how to do it today but also you can make pack some link so that
there's more than one link all packaged in there together
people can get I love them super super valuable for the classroom
on so that's how you do it hopefully that helps don't have to customize you
can use what it gives you automatically
and don't forget to go back and look at your stats especially if you use Twitter
Facebook some kinda social network Google+
it's really interesting to see what happens to those links could be really
great for your students
you know they don't provide any identifying information but they want to
get some
um views on their work that they've published online:
that could be a neat way for them to look and see how people from all over
the world can really see their work
so I hope that helps and I you learn something new
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thanks I hope you learn something new let me some comments and have a great
day
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