Yogile is a simple to use clean photo sharing service perfect for the classroom. To begin sign up for a free account, create an album, and choose between a couple of settings.
Albums created under the free account status will be automatically deleted after 14 days. It's perfect as they clean up the photo projects. You just need to remember to download the photos you want to save.
Yogile provides a random URL to access your album, or you can create your own.
With this URL others can send photos to the album using the created email address, or upload them directly from a computer.
Another nice setting perfect for the classroom is to approve all photos before they are added to the album. This is perfect if you have students emailing a variety of photos for a particular assigned task.
There are no ties to social media, so you aren't playing photo roulette with "suggested" photos appearing on the webpage while you open the website in front of your classroom.
Ideas of how you can implement a shared photo album in your classroom:
- Primary students can use iPod Touch's or iPads to take pictures of items that begin with letters of the alphabet and email those photos to a shared album. It's best if the teacher types the email address the first time so that the email auto pops up for all following emails on an iDevice. Other topics could include different shapes, different colors, or different sets of numbers.
- Students could take pictures while on a field trip and upload their photos to a shared folder.
- Students can email photos of whatever they want, and at the end of the week students can use the photos as writing prompts.
- Have students take and share selfies to be used during class projects.
- Students working on projects can have people from other parts of the world take and email photos into one shared folder, rather than have them arrive in many different emails.
- Keep a photo record of different lab experiments conducted by students from various periods or classes in a district to be compared with each other at the completion of a unit.
- Students can demonstrate an understanding of a vocabulary word by taking photo of them or someone "doing" the word, then store the photos in a shared folder to be reviewed later.
- Have students take pictures of iconic images around town, like buildings, parks, murals or sculptures. Then use a shared folder to place them all in one location accessible by anyone in class.
Please suggest other ideas how you could use a shared photo album with your class.
