So you found an amazing article or website that you want your students to visit, but the url is a gazillion characters long! The kids will never be able to type it correctly. What a headache! Try this!
Copy that long url and paste it into bit.ly to get a shortened version for your students to use!
I took this url - http://www.amazon.com/Little-Vampire-Women-Louisa-Alcott/dp/0061976253/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1303929735&sr=8-1 and entered it into bit.ly to get a much more manageable http://amzn.to/muWWic
Try it next time you have a grizzly address for an amazing website!