[support] How to set an article or basic page as featured content?

In a new theme that I am trying, there is a section which is represented in the code as such: print render($page ['featured']);

Apparently this is to show featured articles or pages. However, I do not see how to configure an article or page as being featured. I have search in the following submenus to now avail: Menu settings Revision information URL path settings Comment settings Authoring information Publishing options

Suspecting that perhaps I would need a module to use the feature, I installed the Featured Content module: http://drupal.org/project/featured_content

However, I still do not see any changes to the Add Content pages which would let me configure an article or page as featured. What am I missing?

Thanks.