All entries for Friday 15 December 2006

The Staff Christmas Party Quiz and Technology

Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/insite/newsandevents/intnews2/staffxmasparty06/

The WMCCM team with guests Sharon and Ian Tuersley entered the Staff Christmas Party Quiz at the Students Union last night. The quiz was fun but more challenging than last years and our team, Dilbert’s less charasmatic friends, did reasonably well. Thanks to the organisers and *Re:Offenders *for keeping us entertained. (We were never likely to last long enough to review the DJ.)

At our table of six, we had four phones that were capable of connecting to the internet using WiFi. At the recent group welcome events the quiz master made four attempts to hand over the prizes only for all of them to decline because they had cheated. (Too well?)

I know that many more phones and PDAs can connect to the internet using 3G or GPRS through their mobile network. Where I to run a quiz at Routes, the SU or anywhere else with a Hotspot then I would try to get the hotspot turned off during the quiz. Yes, they can still cheat with the phone but at least it would not be completely free.

Robert McGonigle : 15 Dec 2006 14:04 |  Tags: 3G Cheating Christmas Christmas Party Gprs Internet Quiz Staff Party Union Wi-Fi |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem