This past weekend and today the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia celebrates National Constitution Day using Confluence for educational knowledge sharing. C-SPAN, USA Today, the National Archives, the Annenberg Foundation, and Scholastic have provided most of the content on the Constitution Day wiki. Educators are collaborating on lesson plans, classroom activities, books, and other educational resources.

The Center and the idea of celebrating on one day the US Constitution are new. The Center is a two-year old museum near Independence Hall in Philadelphia, and this September 17 is the first National Constitution Day.

Tom Hillhouse, the IT manager from the Constitution Center, had the original vision for using a wiki as a “searchable platform for teachers�, as he described today. We’re excited Confluence was chosen to facilitate this educational collaboration. And, we’re pleased to have so many educators exposed to a wiki, and probably for the first time.

Although most of the top universities in the US use Confluence, we’re fairly sure wikis are a newer phenomenon in secondary and primary education.