TinyURL is a website where you can enter a long nasty web address and it will spit out a nice short one. This is great when you want to show students an article or website, but you want to send them to the direct page and its a million characters long. For instance, instead of asking each student to type in:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/09/11/national/a023751D20.DTL&tsp=1

to see an article in the SF Chronicle about how 9/11 is being remembered around the country, you could go to www.tinyurl.com, put that link in the box, and get out

http://tinyurl.com/4ulfde

So much easier!

Also, you can pick the ending! I chose http://tinyurl.com/green1 for my last name, but to make it easy you could also put Remember911 or something of your choosing at the end.

Enjoy!