Here are some links that you might find useful in this course:
Writing
The Writing Guide: This is my jam! Have some fun exploring this in class.
Purdue OWL: This is the best guide online for citation and style.
Citation Machine: Why type your own citations when the interwebs can do it for you!
Grammar Girl: Oooh, she's sassy!
Research
Community School Library: Accessible Information on citation and research, as well as the portal to external search sites.
Wikipedia: It's the bomb.
Google Scholar: It's probably on here, somewhere.
Google Earth: Check it out!
Wasting Time Somewhat Productively
ID Mountain Express: Time to check out Miscellany II.
The New Yorker: Hmmmm...culture!
OLA Blog: See what they're doin' in the OLA.
Mountain Gazette: Pretty cool journal of mountain culture.
Samuel Pepys Diary: I know this sounds like I'm nerding out super hard, but this 17th century London Diary is AWESOME.
High Country News: Stories about the American West.
Mountain Weather: This guy is like a weather genius. What does this have to do with English? Good question.