Submission + - How do I talk to 4th graders about IT? 2
Tsunayoshi writes: "So I volunteered (well, my son volunteered me) to give a presentation on what I do for career day at his elementary school. I need to come up with about a 20 minute presentation to be given to 4-5 different classrooms. I am a systems administrator, primarily unix/linux and enterprise NAS/SAN storage, working for an aerospace company.
I was thinking something along the lines of explaining how some everyday things they experience (websites, telephone systems, etc.) all depend on servers, and those servers are maintained by systems administrators. I was also going to talk about what I do specifically, which is maintain the computer systems that allow the really smart rocket scientists to get things into space.
Am I on the right track? Can anyone suggest some good (and cheap/easy to make) visual aids?"
I was thinking something along the lines of explaining how some everyday things they experience (websites, telephone systems, etc.) all depend on servers, and those servers are maintained by systems administrators. I was also going to talk about what I do specifically, which is maintain the computer systems that allow the really smart rocket scientists to get things into space.
Am I on the right track? Can anyone suggest some good (and cheap/easy to make) visual aids?"
