Professors need to stimulate both sides of students' brain to allow for efficient increase of information absorption. As an alternative to linear outlines, mind maps can provide for more effective comprehension as related ideas are conceptualized from the center out to supporting details, as well as from top to bottom or left to right. The mind map, an organizational skill that helps students to better understand a concept or an objective, can be used to introduce a total course, give a skeletal or course overview, or structure an entire lecture. Mind maps have four major advantages: (1) they aid professors or lecturers, (2) their open-ended quality allows students to brainstorm, (3) they help clarify student notes and liberate students to think , and (4) they increase comprehension. Mind maps also set up a clear hierarchical and graphic structure that allows for easy recall of related ideas. The construction of maps is very open-ended, depending on determination of main objectives, lay-out of information, and personal creativity to aid review and recall. "Mind maps,""webs,""semantic maps," etc., are new terms, and although they are not a panacea, they present an innovative and creative approach for organizing information and challenging the right side of the brain. (Figures illustrating the text are appended.) (JK)