projects & collaborations
Layers of Rome
The Layers of Rome Education Resource and Study Abroad Program is a platform for high school and college students studying and faculty teaching in the subject of the Roman Empire. The site includes lesson plans, presentations and online version of our interactive traveling exhibit for teaching and researching. John Leo De Frank is Co-Faculty as well as the Media Director & Website Content Manager for the Layers of Rome Program assisting Program Director, Dr. Ronald Weber in the planning and implementation of the curriculum as well as producing media, marketing and development of media components curriculum.
UTEP's Centennial Museum - Lhakhang Interactive Tour
This interactive tour was developed for the lhakhang temple that was a gift from Bhutan to the University of Texas at El Paso. The lhakhnag is under the care of the Centennial Museum. In a collaboration with the Centennial Museum, John De Frank worked as Co-Project Director to develop a two-fold interactive tour for both on-site and online. John De Frank contributed to the overall structure of the tour, research and development of the narrative and the design for the interactive on-site portion of the tour as well as the photography for the guide and produced videos for the different components of the tour.
Visit the tour HERE.
The Gray Vignettes
Filmmakers, John Leo De Frank & Valentine Sandoval presents a short web-series told in a series of vignettes about the a 20-some generation of border-dwellers on the frontera of U.S. and Mexico and their struggles of defining one’s self in the early years of the new millennia. The story unfolds via a series of vignettes, elliptical rather than linear segments that construct our lucid and poetic narrative. A cast of characters that lives off of the residual, cultural, and allegorical ramifications of the early years of the new millennia-with regards to the dialogue regarding the attempt to define their generation and the exciting potentials of this New America.
Only in El Paso - Conjuntos Nortenos
This documentary-style video takes you alongside a Norteño duo as they play in downtown El Paso cantinas and share their thoughts and experiences regarding Música Norteña and its influence in the borderland. Conjutos Norteños is part of a series of short films told by local filmmakers/storytellers in El Paso, Texas and was sponsored by KCOS local affiliate of PBS.
View video HERE
NEH funded Summer Program in Rome
The Monuments of Rome in English Culture was a NEH grant funded Summer Program in Rome for developing K-12 lesson Plans on anything Roman. The summer program ran one month in Rome and awarded 25 grade school teachers from around the U.S. to collaborate and develop curriculum combining different fields of study. John De Frank served as the program/grant administrator and as Media Director working with teachers to develop media components for the lesson plans. For more information on the Monuments of Rome in English Culture: