This paper outlines a unit-long or semester-long project that aims to build students competencies in interpersonal, international, intercultural, and language-learning proficiencies, mediated through the use of technology. The project is considered a Collaborative Online International Learning or COIL project, and offers detailed instructions on how to pair and run a meaningful cross-border partner-based educational collaboration through a series of three preparation assignments and three conversation reflections. This activity ends with both discussion questions for the synchronous in-class debrief, as well as suggestions for modifications or alterations based on commonly found challenges. Courses: Interpersonal/Intercultural/Group Communication, Language Exchange Program. Objectives: This original teaching idea can be a semester-long or extended unit-long project. By the end of this unit, students will be able to: (1) Identify both theoretical and practical applications of self-disclosure and employ more informed choices concerning the role of self-disclosure in the development of friendship; (2) Identify the intercultural concepts of expressions of personal, social, and cultural identities, differences in cultural dimensions, and language-learning practice; (3) Navigate distance learning through the use of technology and employ logistics skills required to establish shared expectations concerning logistics during collaboration; and (4) Employ greater capabilities in interpersonal and intercultural competence in cross-cultural friendships and greater competencies in the technologies of Zoom, Skype, and WhatsApp.