It's a what you want ... you can either render it as a single image or an animation.
Well basicly I'm a n00b too ... just have a lot of good ideas ... the straight path to something is not allways the best ... what you need to do is study the particle array in detail ... It's no big deal and I don't think I need to write an 10 sentence tutorial for something this simple that you can figure out how to make in about 10 minutes.
And again don't forget to render it with video post ... It needs the glow filter to make a diference