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For those of you who teach university writing course, an interesting devil's advocate essay against writing essays.

Some very accessible writing prompts for lower level students. Can download a free PDF of the books.

Ideas for teaching argumentative / persuasive writing to ESL students. Written for mainstream teacher, but provides ideas / sentence frames, etc. than can be used in any mid-high level ESL class.

Fun wordless cute video. Student could describe the video in writing / speaking or whatever other creative activities you can think of doing with it.

Simon's cat -- always wordless and usually funny videos for students to watch and describe in writing, speaking, etc.

simple but memorable formula to help student answer questions with details and personal connections

short, cute, basically wordless animated video students could describe in speaking / writing, etc.

Huge collection of sample essays organized by grade and style.

Might be a helpful justification for those engineering, etc. students who don't feel grammar or writing has much to do with their future careers

For native speakers but accessible to our students even at the lower levels. Fun! And a good review of the common spelling issues (their/they're/there , you're/your, etc.)

This is great! It has reading, writing, conversation starts and grammar exercises. For example, there are dialogues with questions, jokes and riddles for reading, and learning about topic sentences for writing. All of these come with follow up worksheets that you can often turn into nice pdfs. All sorts of categories are available for you to choose from.

Students can count on using the 3-2-1 strategy to help them successfully comprehend and write about an informational text.

Short video of a cat solving a puzzle to get his dinner. Could be used for teaching process writing.

Not particularly revolutionary but in all the years I've taught 3rd level conditionals I've never thought of framing them in this way...could be a lot of fun and maybe more relevant

I love word clouds but am never quite sure how to use them effectively. There were some interesting ideas in here, especially the one about essay writing (#3, I think?)

automatic citation generator plus a bit of checking of elements of writing. Not bad for a free program; Mike's students are using it and find it helpful. Thanks for sharing Mike!

This is great, I didn't know this even existed! Thanks!

Written for K-12, most points are even more salient for adult learners, especially regarding tying content into real life applications. How many of our students ask "why am I learning to write a persuasive essay? I'm studying computer engineering".

Op-docs is a series of video interviews (some animated, some filmed, whatever) that are, obviously, opinion pieces. They're not terrible long (from about 5 minutes to 15 minutes) and cover a wide variety of topics. They would probably be a good resource for Level 5 and 6 teachers. The speaking, while mostly native speakers, was not incredibly fast. They also could be used as resources for combining ideas from multiple resources.

A very, very cool site -- suggested by Mike, thank you! -- that allows students to look up a vocabulary word and get various perspectives -- definitions, example sentences, and best of all -- pictures, even for abstract words (I used "attitude" as my test word). Great resource for higher level students.