I think this icebreaker is a great way to move beyond students in each group learning each others' names to a deep exploration of cultural values expressed in sayings heard during childhood/youth.  For COIL, the activity needs to be modified to utilize either a synchronous virtual setting or an asynchronous discussion board type setting. The latter seems to work better in my experience. In this case, you would ask each student to post the information the activity asks them to put on a name card, and then follow up with questions and comments for their classmates. 

This activity went really well in a workshop setting as an icebreaker with a lab group of undergraduate research assistants, post-docs, and graduate students. First, everyone paired up (or groups of three) and shared their answers with one another. After a small group/pair discussion, each individual shared their message to the whole group and answered a follow-up question - something relating to: "Why is that message important to you / what else would you like to share about this message / how does this message intersect with how you live your life?" As participants shared, I wrote the messages with each person's name beneath on the whiteboard so everyone could see a visual representation of the messages. Once we finished sharing, we had a whole group debrief with these questions: "How did it feel to think of and share a key message?​ What did you learn about yourself?​ What did you learn about others?​ How could this activity support self-awareness? Collaboration?" Once the workshop concluded, a member of the lab took a photo of all of the messages (after erasing participants' names to anonymize it) for future reference and to remember the connections that occured in the workshop!