Yogile

Yogile is a website that is meant to be a photo storage and sharing solution. Yogile is free to use, but the albums are removed after fourteen days. If a user chooses, a premium account can be purchased for longer storage. Yogile allows for numerous people to share images into an album on the website through email.

To begin, I made an account. Once my account was made I selected to create an album. A screen then comes up and gives three options. A user can browse for images on the computer, can drag photos to the screen to add them to the album or can give out the email address provided for others to add photos to the album. To use this website effectively, a teacher can set up an album and students can email any photos that they may have from an activity or assignment. This way the teacher has access to the images and can control what is shared with the entire class. Students can also create accounts to share images to friends without having to send them via text message.

I could see myself using this personally to send images from my wedding to loved ones. My in-laws often ask for images. I could easily direct her to this website so that the images can be shared. I would choose to use this website over just sending the images through an email to her because Yogile allows for easier uploading of images. I created a sample Photo album, and it took less than five seconds for six pictures to be uploaded and ready for sharing. When I try to download or send images I usually have to wait long periods of time for them to be uploaded. I think Yogile could be helpful when sending more than one image at a time.

In the classroom I think this would be a great tool! Many students have cellular devices and take pictures of everything. This could allow for a teacher to get pictures of projects or activities without giving out any personal information. What I like best about this website in a classroom setting is that the teacher can edit the images so that inappropriate images are not shared to the entire class. The album can then be set up for a slide show or be shared on a public website.