In our society where pretty much everything in control by one of human kind's best creation, the computer, it is not much of a surprise how much computers are part of a student's everyday life in school as they make lessons interesting and engaging. Today, we are exploring on how two such web tools can help an early childhood educator liven up his or her classroom.

First up, we have instructional videos from the website VideoJug http://www.videojug.com/
This site is one that is chocked full with countless videos on any topic under the sun. Instructional videos like these are short and sweet therefore catering to the children's short attention spans, as well as provide preschool teachers with a new medium for teaching. They can source for topics that they observe the children to be interested in and use the videos as part of their lessons. The plus point of it all is that the demonstration and instructions are already given by the person in the video, in turn easing the teacher's planning and implementing of his or her lessons. Furthermore, an early childhood educator can use this web page to advance himself or herself professionally by looking for videos on child development and related topics to their field.

The second web tool are forum threads found on the web. An early childhood educator will probably find that this website provided is one that is rather useful for them. http://www.ncb.org.uk/Page.asp?sve=819
This early childhood education forum provides a place for teachers to learn knowledge from others and apply it in their classrooms. They can have debates with others in the profession on topics that concern them and draw conclusions from the differing opinions. It also provides consultation on effective teaching of which preschool teachers can utilise and learn from. Finally, they can discuss with other professionals means and ways of how they can improvise on their curriculum standards and ensure the learning outcomes of the children.

Comparing the two, one can say that Instructional Videos provides more information and visible directions for the teachers to learn more effectively and be able to teach the children in the correct way to do some things while Forum provides more verbal instructions and discussion for the teachers to have the correct way to solve things or learn the right way of the disciplinary actions. One cannot say that the Instructional Videos outweigh the Forum in terms of it's uses as both cater to the two different essential needs of a preschool teacher, which are classroom lesson help and professional growth. Thus it is safe to say that these two go hand in hand to benefit a teacher and his or her students in an holistic manner.