Hi Douglas! Thanks for your question! Here are some ideas for your discretion; please let me encourage our other participants in the discussion forum to present their ideas as well: - Be sensitive to your own voice inflection/tone/body language...by having this awareness, you can speed up, slow down, change your tone and adjust accordingly -Try the "pulse and pace" concept - observe your students and how they are reacting; their body language will tell you whether or not you need to change the pace and/or the tone of your presentation -If you need to repetitively provide the same information at different times, challenge yourself as to how you can present the same thing a little differently; tell a story, give an example, ask a question, mention an intersting or even shocking factoid - get the feel for your student audience and what gets them going -Ask student volunteers from time to time to paraphrase in their own words what you are saying - students listen to other students, it breaks up the lecture a bit and, with your guidance, can even shed new light on a subject -combine your training aids, visuals and speaking with a few interactive learning activites during the lecture - play a brief game (a relevant one), have a contest, challenge students to ask you a question that might stump you; ask students for personal examples, etc. Though many of these suggestions may not directly be related to just speech (monotone or otherwise), introducing them in your learning environment may help to offset, or break up, continuous lecturing and therefore reduce the chance of a complete monotone delivery. Hope this helps,thanks again for your question! Jay Hollowell ED106 Facilitator