Speaker: Kat Dewett, PhD Candidate at Liberty University
What key challenges did you need help with before you started using Genio (formerly Glean)?
Kat Dewett: Hi, my name is Kat. I am a full-time mom of three who is officially now a doctoral candidate. I started my doctoral program about a year ago, and I have been flying through it, taking classes at an alarming speed online through Liberty University.
Kat Dewett: Right after I started my program with Liberty, I found out I needed to have wrist surgery on both of my wrists, and I had them done one at a time. And it's really hard to type all of the papers you need to do when you have wrist surgery. So being able to dictate and use Glean for all of my coursework was amazing, especially being a commuter and driving an hour to work and an hour home. I've been able to do so much and rely on the dictation and just all of the resources that are available. So it has helped in so many tremendous ways.
How has Genio (formerly Glean) helped you with those challenges and impacted your learning experience?
Kat Dewett: Glean impacted my learning right away. Having surgery and being one-handed, you can't survive in a doctoral program with that. There's just no way, especially working full time and having 3 kids, having this program and having it on my phone, literally saved my life and was the only reason I was successful and able to move forward in the program and kept me going through it even now, the features that it has has just been. life saving through two wrist surgeries. The things that I can do is just amazing.
Would you recommend Genio (formerly Glean) to other students?
Kat Dewett: So I talk about using it through my wrist surgery journey, but I can talk about how well it works for recording lectures, as someone who is not an auditory learner and I'm a teacher too, I struggle to follow along, to listen to people. I'm a reader and I need to have things written down, and this just does an exceptional job. I teach high school seniors, and I cannot say enough positive things about this to to all of the students that I talked to, as they go off, to their postsecondary programs, I encourage them to to ask about this at the schools they go to.
