WordPress is a great way to start a free hosted site or download and run your own server. I use it in my district for a few web servers, including our journalism server.
This site has a forum for asking questions of other teachers. Tons of writing lesson ideas, bulletin boards, writing prompts, journaling and so much more. Many different levels.
This resource gives you 10 excellent web tools that you can incorporate into your classroom. Some of them are fairly familiar but others may not be. This site describes each of the tools to give you some information about them so you are not completely lost. This list is worth keeping around!
Interesting list of apps, but it was a great beginning list for sure. I don't see the comment from Samir here so it is hard to disagree or agree, but I do personally believe that some of these tools can be used in our classrooms. I can totally see and have had students use Animoto and a few of the other tools in the classroom before. This is mainly a teacher tool because it provides a link to the resource and then provides a description. There are many sites out there that boast a similar idea, but this one comes from a credible source and is well done overall.
Allows you to enter information so the website can generate a MLA citation for a website, book, newspaper, journal, or database. Will also create a works cited page for you.