@conference {2809, title = {Winds of Aiolos: How connect the Greek Schools in Internet}, booktitle = {Towards the e-learning Community, Bolton International Conference, Bolton, UK}, year = {2000}, month = {19 - 20 October}, pages = { 27 - 37}, abstract = {In this paper, we present the first Greek School Network, which is implemented by the project "Winds of Aiolos{\textquotedblright}. This project is subsumed in the framework of the European Community Action "Operational Program for the Education and Initial Vocational Training - Odysseia". Computer Technology Institute (CTI) has the responsibility for the design and the implementation of the project. On the basis of the influence of the networking technologies to the educational activities and according to the international experience, the usage of the network to the educational procedure acts as knowledgeable object, information source, learning tool and communication tool. The main object of the project is the implementation of a network infrastructure for the interconnection of school laboratories and educational administration offices and the provision of network services in a wide range. It forms a closed educational network, which is based on the Greek educational and research backbone network (GRNET). The Greek school network statistics show that the students prefer the Greek Domain. The educational units of the Greek School Network still act more as consumers than as creators in the information society.}, author = {Christos Bouras and Mixalis Paraskevas and Petros Ganos and N Adamopoulos and D Karaiskakis} }