Client: The National Constitution Center
Project: Constitution Day wiki

In sponsoring this collaborative website, The National Constitution Center and its partners have placed themselves at the center of vital national discourses on the Constitution. Since 2006, it continues to welcome over 60,000 visitors who are able to quickly search for teacher’s resources and other materials provided by dozens of content partners from around the country.

Due to the success of the Constitution Day wiki, Night Kitchen Interactive also developed the PennCORD wiki—a collaborative website for The Pennsylvania Coalition for Representative Democracy which provides an interactive classroom in which student teams collaborate on civic projects.

inspiration

The National Constitution Center wanted to create a learning hub for Constitution Day in order to serve a variety of communities seeking to develop educational programs on the history of the American Constitution.

narration

The NCC recognized the need to provide resources to diverse audiences—students, educators, government, and community leaders. Therefore, the content needed to be up-to-date, and the site itself needed to provide an avenue for knowledge-sharing among community members.

design

Night Kitchen Interactive collaborated with the NCC’s web development and education staff, content partners, and the Annenberg Foundation to create a wiki-based website. Night Kitchen Interactive created easy-to-use design templates to ensure that all content materials provided by contributing partners have a consistent look and feel despite their diverse origins. The wiki-based tools also allow non-technical staff to efficiently add resources to the site, while our custom search engine made all the information easily accessible to educators and the interested public.

interaction

More than just a rapidly-growing and easy-to-use repository of teaching materials, the website supports active communities of teachers, students, community leaders, as well as government and military personnel who can participate by contributing their own content, rating materials, and sharing knowledge with NCC staff. Page-level access controls allow the community free expression while ensuring the NCC always has complete control over who sees what pages when.