lesblancs
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I run a geocaching enrichment activity every 2 weeks at my school. I have a group of around 19 students and two adult helpers. My equipment consists of 7 eTrex 10 GPS units and a variety of caches. The actual theory was easy to organise; all our students have iPads and have access to iTunes U where I have placed a home made video on the use of a GPS and how to use it to find "treasure".
The main problem I had with my students was one of trust. We have a large campus and I spent a couple of hours on a Saturday (my time!!) placing about 8 clip boxes around the site. So far so good. Setting the waypoints was no problem either and I eagerly awaited the geocaching day. After a short time going back over GPS basics I let the students loose in pairs. The weaker students were accompanied by an adult and I was released to wonder around, keeping an eye on the other groups. After an hour we all went back to the classroom to discuss the "treasure hunt". The main problem had been finding the caches; not because they had been put in difficult places, but because the students (kids will be kids) thought it would be fun if only their group could find the caches. The result was most of the caches were moved from their spot and 1 was lost completely!
Back to the drawing board. The next session I decided to do an Earth Cache type activity. The GPS led the students to a landmark or sign that was indeed unmovable. To prove they had found the cache the students had to take a picture of it with their iPads. They could then compare their version with my version back in the classroom. Success!! The activity worked a dream as nobody could interfere with the caches. Most if not all the caches were found. Objectives were met all round.
One of the final activities we did was each group hiding their own cache and creating their own waypoints. I think this was an activity too far as only 2 groups succeeded in finding each other's caches. The others had simply created too many waypoints by over pressing the enter button on the eTrex 10.
Anyway, the groups have now been changed and most of my old Geocaching group said they didn't want to change their enrichment activity!! They got to understand the workings of a GPS, got a lot of fresh air and exercise and had some fun at the same time. At least 1 student has got his grandparents to do some geocaching with him at the weekend.
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Yes, I was testing via Neongeo.
To be clear, are you saying that you are seeing a message about your time zone settings not being correct? That is the general error message that appears when there is an authentication issue (worded that way because of past issues caused by incorrect time settings on the phone). You should report this issue to contact@geocaching.com. We can then send you a small test app that provides additional error messaging and that may help us uncover what is going on in your situation.
I am seeing no messages about my time zone being incorrect.This was just something I had read about on the neongeo website. As far as I am aware, all my settings seem to be as they should be.
I will send a text to contact@geocaching.com outlining my problem.
Thanks for the help.
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It's definitely not an API problem as I am able to authorize on my own Android phone. Do you get any better results if you purge the browser cache on your phone?
Are you authorising via Neongeo?
I have tried everything, from checking the time zones, to flushing the cache and reinstalling the neongeo app.
Each time the same problem.
Puzzling to say the least.
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Hi there,
I recently purchased and installed Neongeo onto my Samsung GS2 mobile phone.
I started up the Neongeo app and there were no problems until I accessed the authorisation page at Geocaching.com.
I was directed to press the "allow access" button, which I did. The software then told me to wait as the page was loading. I was then kicked back to the authorization page again....and got stuck in a loop.
Interestingly enough, I received an email informing me that neongeo had successfully accessed my account...which it hadn't!
I have checked my time settings etc, and they are accurate.
My phone details are:
Samsung Galaxy S2 with rooted Orange ICS 4.0.3 (UK)
Neongeo version 1.160
I have no problems logging into geocaching.com via the normal PC option. The problem seems to be with API.
Thanks
UK education
in Teaching K-7
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I have done some geocaching with years 7 to 9 as part of an enrichment activity every half term. At first I planted several boxes on our large school grounds for the students to find. The big problem though was that the caches went missing as groups were determined others would not find them. I decided then to create a series of earth caches where students used their garmin e 10s to find school landmarks or signs. They then had to take photos of them with their ipads as proof. This worked really well. On the last session, as a treat, I planted 7 different caches containing treasure in the form of sweets. Each of the 7 groups had to find their own personal treasure chest. Again...this was very popular!!!