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GETTING STARTED
WITH GDP 11E
Scot Ober
What’s unique about GDP 11e?
1. Web-based software
2. Systematic skillbuilding, including MAP+
3. WP on a “need-to-know” basis
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10-key numeric keypad
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Instructor Wraparound Edition
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Author Web site
Web-based software
New world speed champion!
Need for speed
“What’s the use of having a machine
capable of working at lightning speed, …
If the information it needs trickles in
like molasses in January?”
Erik Sandbert-Diment, “The Most Crucial Computing Skill,
Science Digest, Jan 1984
Alex Hailey
What would you have done
differently if you had known that
Roots would be so successful?
“I would have typed faster.”
2011 Analysis of Online Employment
Ads for Administrative Positions
• Required speeds ranged from 35 to 85 wpm.
• Most common minimum speed: 60 wpm (43%).
• % of jobs for which applicants are qualified:
 40 wpm: 10% of jobs
 50 wpm: 18% of jobs
 60 wpm: 80% of jobs
A skillbuilding system
Warmup
No one reach to a key
New-key introduction
Enrichment
MAP+
How should formatting skills be taught?
On the basis of word processing capabilities?
Introduce
15 commands
in one lesson?
Or: on the basis of document requirements?
WP on a need-to-know basis
Textbook Lesson 30
Word Manual Lesson 30
“Keep-for-reference” Word Manual
Ten-key numeric keypad
Instructor Wraparound Edition
Author Web site
gdpkeyboarding.com
Hands-on help for instructors—
by instructors